Digital Manufacturing and the Fifth Industrial Revolution

Abstract

Industrial revolutions highly impact the workforce, skill of every occupation, and society. Many businesses have implemented appropriate competitive advantages to take lead of the market, when others yet didn't recognize the pace of the current industrial revolutions and digital transformations. This chapter emphasizes the cooperation between different sectors of digital manufacturing that requires a reinvention of the working routine to exploit big data and analytics in addition to the market network. This chapter will also put into further detail the driving forces behind the unpredictable rapid technological revolution and trends of digital manufacturing. With equal emphasis, the authors regarded ethics as the very first priority to retain a safer world for humanity. Readers will develop a strong foundation to keep adaptive control and preventive strategy against any disruption and leave an opportunity to attain an even better future.