Research note: Machinery, manumission, and economic machinations

Abstract

This research note reports upon advancements in computerization and big data creation within the off-highway plant and machinery sector. A thematic literature review synthesizes a disparate range of research initiatives and industrial developments and highlights specific examples of technological developments. A discussion regarding impact upon future employment concludes that rather than creating mass unemployment, computerization will change the employment horizon and continue to shape the global economic community. Education is quintessentially important to humanity which must master the machine and not become a slave to technology. Future proofing of educational provisions will therefore feature heavily in tomorrow's employment market. This provocative research note advances new ideas and theoretical perspectives that are specifically designed to stimulate academic debate in this novel and rapidly developing area of scientific endeavor.

A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence and Robots in Value Co-creation: Current Status and Future Research Avenues

“…Other cognitive support for service providers include assessing the helpfulness of customer reviews (Singh et al, 2017), supporting complex new product development decisions (Thieme, Song, & Calantone, 2000), providing homogeneous segmentation solutions (Boone & Roehm, 2002), selecting models (Schwartz, Bradlow, & Fader, 2014), and deciding the timing of an initial public offering (Yu & Huarng, 2013). Edwards, Pärn, Love, and El-Gohary (2017) discuss how robots can in addition to hard labour replace many jobs in classic engineering that require cognitive skills and ability. Also, AI may change the division of tasks between human beings and machinery within an organization.…”

Underlying indicators for measuring smartness of buildings in the construction industry

“…Smart buildings are developed upon intelligent building concepts, as briefly explained by Agarwal et al (2010). Smart buildings contain aspects of automation (Edwards et al, 2017), and similarly, intelligence is an important aspect of smart buildings (Wang et al, 2012;Shaikh et al, 2014). Building automation requires "a lot of 'intelligent' devices" (Runde and Fay, 2011) and smart buildings are increasingly using a number of smart devices, materials and sensors (Arkin and Paciuk, 1997;Wong et al, 2008;Gilder and Clements-Croome, 2010).…”

Patterns and trends in Internet of Things (IoT) research: future applications in the construction industry

“…Under the 'product' innovation umbrella, numerous techniques associated with Industry 4.0 have been used to provide innovative solutions to solve construction problems (Shen et al, 2015). These techniques include: Building Information Modelling (BIM) (Eastman et al, 2018, Bensalah et al, 2019, Al-Saeed et al, 2020; smart construction objects (Niu et al, 2015); ubiquitous technologies (Melià-Seguí and Vilajosana, 2019); augmented reality (Bademosi et al, 2019); and blockchain (Pärn and Edwards, 2019, Dewan and Singh, 2020. Coalescence of these technologies enables changes to the construction industry's antiquated modus operandi (Golizadeh et al, 2018).…”