Job Design in Industry 4.0

For some years now the debate on the subject of Industry 4.0 has focused on technical improvements in job design expected to yield gains in productivity and profitability and on the whole question of the future of work performed by human beings. Industry 4.0 has become a catchword describing developments in automation and digitalization involving automated objects – products, machines and other industrial equipment, especially items used in the logistics sector. These objects belong to a so-called cyber-physical system (CPS). This