5Industry 5.0A new reality, new challenges

Magdalena Maciaszczyk, Zbigniew Makieła, Radosław Miśkiewicz

DOI: 10.4324/9781003384311-5

Introduction

Technological breakthroughs that lead to fundamental changes in production organization or alter the way human factors are incorporated into production are defined as industrial revolutions. What have been the characteristics of each industrial revolution? And what does Industry 5.0 involve?

Today, many companies are still struggling to digitize their operations. It is done by incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into everyday life, using the internet of things (IoT), processing data and storing it in cloud computing, or by using dynamically developing modern technologies. Advances in digitization ...

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