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Heikki Ruohomaa, Mikko Mäntyneva and Vesa Salminen

Preface

region is introduced.

The industry has changed significantly in the last two decades. To remain competitive, it is essential for firms to adopt new methodologies of innovation, manufacturing, procurement, and logistics. Industry 4.0 is the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufac‐ turing technologies. The book aims to collect relevant contributions to analyze historical de‐ velopment and perspectives focusing on technological and product revolutions. Social and political strategies are analyzed. Furthermore, concepts and principles related to Industry 4.0 are investigated. The book contains original research and application chapters from dif‐

In detail, **Chapter 1** presents an overview of current practices, challenges, and opportunities concerning the Fourth Industrial Revolution, while **Chapter 2** analyzes a research agenda of Industry 4.0 from the Czech Perspective. **Chapter 3** aims to highlight the important role of human capital management in the Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 revolution. Manu‐ facturing transformation toward mass customization and personalization in the traditional food industry is presented in **Chapter 4.** The issue of setting and solving management and planning tasks in production systems taking into account the function of time is analyzed in **Chapter 5**. In **Chapter 6**, the authors introduce the concepts of strategic technology manage‐ ment and Smart Manufacturing providing a critical analysis of literature on the work done in these areas, discuss results of a study done on the application of STM in a high technolo‐ gy manufacturing sector, and extend the results of research to Smart Manufacturing. An in‐ teresting case study is presented in **Chapter 7**. It examines business potential of digital smart jewelry. When jewelry has tens of thousands of years of history, it is interesting to find out what people think of jewelry that contains technology. The study was conducted as an ac‐ tion research, in which researchers acted as main innovators of smart jewelry. Finally, **Chap‐ ter 8** focuses on the topic of renewing a university in order to be able to support the adaptation of Industry 4.0 within a region. The chapter introduces Industry 4.0 as a frame‐ work for regional development. An idea of how to apply Industry 4.0 as a framework for renewal of a multidisciplinary university's structure and curricula is introduced. Also, a case study for applying Industry 4.0 as a framework for increasing competitiveness in the

This book is intended to be a useful resource for anyone who deals with innovation and smart manufacturing problems. Furthermore, we hope that this book will provide useful re‐

source ideas, techniques, and methods for further research on these issues.

ferent perspectives. It is enriched with the analysis of case studies.
