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With the use of blockchain, Internet of Things, virtual platform/telecommunications network, artificial intelligence and the fourth industrial revolution, the essential demand for digital transition within the health care settings has increased as an outcome of the 2019 coronavirus illness outbreak and the fourth industrial revolution. The evolution of virtual environments with three-dimensional (3D) spaces and avatars, known as metaverse, has slowly gained acceptance in the field of health care. These environments may be especially useful for patient-facing platforms (such as platforms for telemedicine), functional uses (such as meeting management), digital education (such as modeled medical and surgical learning), treatments and diagnoses. This chapter offers the most recent state-of-the-art metaverse services and applications and a growing problem when it comes to using it in the healthcare sector. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an acceleration unlike any other in terms of digital and technological acceleration for the entire world and also within Malaysia. The sudden and rapid need for organisations as well as businesses to shift their day-to-day operations online has changed the way people are working everywhere. And what that means is now more than ever, there is a huge increase in demand for a workforce that is ready and can pioneer this new age of rising technological needs in conjunction with the government's aim of heading towards Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0). Micro-credential (MC) has grown in popularity in recent years and have been labelled as a new disruptor to lifelong learning and higher learning. The Malaysian workforce and job seekers now have more options in their reskilling and upskilling efforts as they seek to remain relevant in the present-day job market which has shifted towards a digital transformation. An extensive study is proposed to be done to explore the current status quo of MC in Malaysia from the viewpoint of the hiring parties in the tech-related job markets as well as how MC will be able to play a part in the continuous growth of the tech and digital ecosystem in Malaysia. © 2023 IEEE.
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Industry 4.0 is the central topic of numerous publications by foreign and Russian scientists, most of which are conceptual in nature. The current labor market requires the formation of new competencies and skills demanded in the digital economy. Digital reality dictates the need to develop new competencies—digital skills. Knowledge of computer technology, the use of software, and programming have become essential. For most organizations worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitalization and adoption of digital ways of working. The development of new forms of employment (remote and combined) using digital technology will contribute to positive changes in the labor market. Based on these trends in the digital transformation of current society, the research aims to examine the digital skills of employees in the cooperative sector of the economy and their demand in the labor market in the context of Industry 4.0. The authors use descriptive statistical methods to process official data from the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation and the Higher School of Economics. The research indicates that the transformation of the labor market and forms of employment requires the development of new competencies demanded in Industry 4.0. In the digital economy, employment opportunities increasingly depend on a person's digital skills and competencies. This paper is one of the first comprehensive studies of the changing labor conditions, working environment, and the emergence of new competencies in Industry 4.0. This research contributes to the problem of studying digital skills as a component of human capital and can be the basis for further research in this subject area. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, covers a broad range of technologies. The applications of Industry 4.0 help in interconnectivity as well as automation process and support seamless operations. Not many studies have taken place to examine how different applications of Industry 4.0 could help in turbulent situations or in crises like COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, there is a research gap. In such background, the aim of this study is to investigate how different applications of Industry 4.0 could help to respond to such turbulent situation and help in business continuity and sustainability of operations. The present study develops a theoretical model combining technology–organization–environment framework and dynamic capability view to examine the role of Industry 4.0 applications for business continuity and sustainability of business operations especially for managing any turbulent situation like COVID-19 pandemic. The theoretical model was validated using partial least square structural equation modeling technique considering 338 respondents from different industries. The study found that there is a greater need to adopt Industry 4.0 applications for managing business operations during any turbulent situation. The study also found that there is a significant moderating impact of corporate governance in adopting Industry 4.0 applications to manage business operations especially during crisis. IEEE
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Microwave engineering is regaining importance as the world is witnessing the emergence of a new industrial revolution spearheaded by the internet of things and 5G communications and wireless networks. Preparing α-generation microwave engineering students for the future, especially in post-COVID era, represents a considerable challenge to universities worldwide that seldom offer a full autonomous course at the undergraduate level. Engineering curriculum should be revisited in order to incorporate skills suitable for work-based learning with emphasis on developing human-centred ICT competencies. Flipped classrooms are specifically attractive in engineering education to ensure deep comprehension of course material. A flipped microwave-engineering course with focus on amplifier design has therefore been re-designed with course learning outcomes aligned with Bloom's taxonomy and ABET program outcomes. The new learning cycle in the flipped mode, allow reaching the top cognitive pyramid where student exercised decision-making and practiced meta-cognitive knowledge and skills. The stretched flipped classroom represents a paradigm shift in instructional methodology and offers several advantages to the learning process at high cognitive levels as learning occurs in a comfortable pace where students collaborate with instructors in course design, curricula and delivery. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Building Smart (City) Applications and data streaming have been fast evolving in the last couple of years with a breadth of topics with cities on the edge of the 4th industrial revolution. With COVID-19 starting to be better addressable and people returning to big cities and downtown areas, visions for urban utopia with focus on sustainability and communities arise again. The combination of Artifical Intelligence, Internet of Things and data streaming methods open up novel research areas with large transational potential and address topics such as smart transportation and standards such as Industry 4.0. This minitrack features the concepts and ideas of Smart Applications and data streaming applications, their implementations, especially from a software engineering point of view. Submissions to this minitrack include presentations of architectures, frameworks, platforms and infrastructures as well as success stories of implementations. © 2023 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
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The rapid growth of technology, environmental concerns, and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have led researchers to pay more attention to an emerging concept called the fifth industrial revolution (I5.0). Despite the high importance of the I5.0, the literature shows that no study investigated the supply chain network design problem based on the I5.0 pillars. Hence, this research develops a multi-stage decision-making framework to configure a closed-loop supply chain based on I5.0 dimensions to cover this gap. In the first stage, the score of technologies that utilized in the supply chain is calculated using the analytic hierarchy process method. Afterwards, in the second stage, a mathematical model is proposed to configure the supply chain. Then, Furthermore, an efficient solution method, named the fuzzy lexicographic multi-choice Chebyshev goal programming method, is developed to obtain the optimal solution. In general, the main contributions of the current study can be divided into two major parts as follows: (i) the current study is the first research that incorporates the dimensions of the I5.0 into the supply chain network design problem, and (ii) this work develops a novel and efficient solution method. In this regard, the major problems and challenges that existed include the limitation of available resources in relation to Industry 5, especially in the field of the supply chain, as well as quantifying the elements of Industry 5.0 in the form of a mathematical programming model. © 2023
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In order to face industrial revolution 4.0 auditors must start developing their skills. In the past, auditors have used remote audit only to reach remote places. However, currently Covid-19 comes and encourages even more the use of technology and provides an opportunity to rethink the way audits are conducted. In this study, researchers wanted to know how remote audit, computer literacy and audit software skill has affected audit quality. This research is quantitative in nature, by processing data using primary data obtained from distributing questionnaires to auditors who work at public accounting firms in Jabodetabek. Statistical analysis used multiple linear regression, previously carried out a feasibility test through validity, reliability and classical assumption tests. The results showed that the variables of remote audit, computer literacy and audit software skill had a significant effect on the audit quality. © 2022 ACM.
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The era of industrial revolution 4.0 has introduced new technology that makes all of the activities in this world change. At the same time, the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak has made social distancing which make auditors must adopt technology digital to be able perform remote audit. Based on that explanation, we conducted research on the effect of remote audit, work experience, work overload, transformational leadership, and emotional intelligence on auditor performance. Our research used quantitative method, we use primary data from questionnaires that were distributed to auditors who work in Public Accounting Firms in Jabodetabek. The data analysis method used was Structural Equation Model (SEM) based on Partial Least Square (PLS) with SmartPLS 3.2.9 software. Our results showed that work experience, transformational leadership, and emotional intelligence have a significant effect on auditor work performance, while remote audit and work overload have no significant effect on auditor performance. © 2022 ACM.
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In 1984, the film "The Terminator” predicted that a hostile Artificial Intelligence (AI) will threaten to extinguish humankind by 2029. Even though the real present is quite far from this post-apocalyptic scenario where AI rebels against its creator, a growing concern about the lack of ethical considerations in the use of AI is rapidly spreading, leading to the current "ethics crisis”. The lack of clear regulations is even more alarming considering that AI is becoming an integral part of new educational platforms. This follows the wave of digital transformation mainly induced by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with advances in digitalization strategies, and the COVID-19 crisis, which forced education institutions worldwide to switch to e-learning. The appeal of AI is its potential to answer the needs of both educators and learners. For example, it can provide help grading assignments, enable tutoring opportunities, develop smart content, personalize and ultimately boost on-line learning. Although the "AI revolution” has great potential to improve and boost digital education, there are no clear regulations in place to ensure an ethical and fair use of AI. Therefore, this work aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current concerns regarding fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics in AI applied to education, with specific focus on virtual laboratories. The main aspects that this work aims to discuss, and provide possible suggestions for, are: (i) ethical concerns, fairness, bias, equity, and inclusion;(ii) data transparency and digital rights, including data availability, collection, and protection;and, (iii) collaborative approach between disciplines. © 2022 SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings. All rights reserved.
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Over the last year, the evolution in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been staggering. The automation it brings to applications has yielded efficiency, reduced operating costs, and decreased the time of research, development, and production. Industries have already integrated RPA into their workflow and are profoundly transforming into an intelligent automated industry with minimum human intervention, calling this the fourth industrial revolution. In this race of transformation, the healthcare industry is quite ahead of many other industries. It stood the test of time when COVID-19 was spreading rapidly and was also resilient against all odds. The system did experience an unprecedented crisis that depicted its weakness, fragility, and unpreparedness. The healthcare system was forced to adapt to a new paradigm. And though there was the loss of life and economy, we learned to evolve as a community to tackle this crisis. This chapter sheds light on the role of RPA and covers how these technologies can assist healthcare workers in their day-to-today activities, reviewing what the fourth industrial revolution would look like in the healthcare sector. The intelligent, automated system would provide a seamless experience of gathering information by various means, processing, and assisting healthcare workers to deliver quality treatment. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) has brought different concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as Big data analysis. Thus, digital learning has also been introduced;it is a learning vehiculated utilizing technology. With the current COVID 19 crisis, digital learning has become the best learning method by South African institutions by excellence, but how ready are they, though? This is the question this study attempts to answer. The study follows a case study approach on a South African University located in Johannesburg. A convenience sample was used with 168 students from the faculty of engineering that took part in the study. Data were collected using a questionnaire that was administered to the respondents. The questionnaire collected the respondents' demographical information, awareness of digital learning, and accessibility to digital learning tools. The data collected were captured on Microsoft Excel before being analyzed with SPSS for further results. The study revealed that most of the respondents are aware of digital learning even though it is not implemented in all modules at the University. Accessibility to essential tools to digital learning such as the internet and the devices to connect is still a big challenge for students mainly as most of them cannot afford the internet-connected devices. Although the general perspective is that higher institutions in South Africa are not yet ready for digital learning due to the infrastructure availability, many practices toward digital learning are being implemented. There are high hopes to believe in well-implemented digital learning Universities in the next decades. © 2022 IEEE.
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Microwave engineering is regaining importance as the world is witnessing the emergence of a new industrial revolution spearheaded by the internet of things and 5G communications and wireless networks. Preparing α-generation microwave engineering students for the future, especially in post-COVID era, represents a considerable challenge to universities worldwide that seldom offer a full autonomous course at the undergraduate level. Engineering curriculum should be revisited in order to incorporate skills suitable for work-based learning with emphasis on developing human-centred ICT competencies. Flipped classrooms are specifically attractive in engineering education to ensure deep comprehension of course material. A flipped microwave-engineering course with focus on amplifier design has therefore been re-designed with course learning outcomes aligned with Bloom's taxonomy and ABET program outcomes. The new learning cycle in the flipped mode, allow reaching the top cognitive pyramid where student exercised decision-making and practiced meta-cognitive knowledge and skills. The stretched flipped classroom represents a paradigm shift in instructional methodology and offers several advantages to the learning process at high cognitive levels as learning occurs in a comfortable pace where students collaborate with instructors in course design, curricula and delivery. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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In this paper the Fourth Industrial revolution meaning and history is being discussed and how artificial intelligence (AI) is part of this revolution. The fourth industrial revolution can be divided into 3 clusters digital, biological and physical clusters and each cluster it has its own applications that are connected to AI such as 3d printings, autonomous vehicle, new materials and advanced robotics implemented in this revolution AI has advanced this technology to another level where it started to affect our society in negative or positive way where our ethical value can be put in to consideration. Also, the impact of COVID-19 is discussed accordingly for on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution created many opportunities in many industrial sectors to cope with the digital transformation emergence. The financial industry quickly developed mobile cashless payment transaction systems (e-wallets) that went viral and have been widely used. Compared with traditional payment services, cashless payments offer other advantages encouraging users to utilize the technology more often. In addition, Covid-19 accelerated the adoption of e-wallets as social distancing, and contactless transactions have been advised in response to limit the transition of the virus between people. Accordingly, this research is aimed to identify the main factors that encourage users to adopt e-wallet systems and the main concerns of the cashless technology before and during Covid-19. This research used the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach to answer the research questions that rolled around identifying these factors. The papers were selected between 2018 and 2022 as a representation of before and during Covid-19. The analysis of the chosen literature highlighted 31 total factors, 21 factors about e-wallet usage and 10 factors about technology concerns. Based on the identified factors, this paper can be useful for e-wallet technology practitioners in the field to provide better cashless payment services. © 2023 IEEE.
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This Industrial Revolution 4.0 is in boom across the globe;which is an indication for Universities and Colleges to adopt the future i.e. Education 4.0. Since the Last Decade, there has been a drastic change in the field of education. It has changed from physical learning to digital learning due to Covid-19. As digital learning came into the picture many developments have happened in using industrial revolution 4.0. This transformation has taught all of us how to use ICT effectively for conducting the lectures for the students remotely and smoothly. ICT has enabled new ways of student learning with the challenge of the availability of good learning platforms and tools. Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Education 4.0 work hand in hand for bringing new ways of learning. Industry 4.0 is majorly working on Robotic Process Automation, Industrial Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Smart Technologies. All the Technologies which are associated with Industry 4.0 have a massive impact on individuals' everyday lifestyles. To improve education, learning skills, and personal skills in students, universities and colleges need to adopt Education 4.0 which is an evolution in the Education System. Teaching students digital technologies in their current syllabus will change the learning habits of the students which will in turn improve universities and colleges. Future of Education will be completely based on Education 4.0 which will restructure the current education system. This case study will be focusing on the selection of Digital Learning Platform and Communication Tools for Future Education 4.0 in India on the basis of different parameters. © 2022 IEEE.
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Under the influence of the fifth industrial revolution and the outbreak of COVID-19, the digital transformation of enterprises has entered a new stage of rapid development. Digital transformation has become the trend of enterprise operation in the digital economy era. In this context, enterprise laboratory asset operation has also become an important aspect of enterprise digital operation. It is urgent to build a set of enterprise laboratory asset digital evaluation system to assist the implementation of enterprise digital strategy. Based on the characteristics of laboratory assets and the closed-loop theory of asset operation management, this paper analyzes and studies the laboratory asset management, establishes a targeted evaluation index system of digital asset management, focuses on the composition of the digital operation system of laboratory assets, and constructs a management index evaluation system of assets, efficiency, cost and other dimensions, so as to create a real-time, comprehensive and comprehensive evaluation system The closed-loop and full cycle digital management ecological environment realizes the effective integration of laboratory resource fragmentation information and the complete embodiment of digitization, provides service support for continuously improving asset management performance, and provides support for further improving enterprise economic efficiency and operation level. © 2022 SPIE.
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The era of the fourth industrial revolution and the Covid-19 pandemic gives rise to the incredible growth of the IoT (Internet of Things) field. The trend of an immense amount of devices connected to specific networks brings up various problems, but most noticeable, control and management issues. In this paper, we propose a structural and efficient solution to solve this problem in a large-scale IoT system - along with two implementations of the proposed solution. The paper's main contribution is to present an overview of the architecture for an IoT system inspired by numerous IoT-based implementations. The design is expected to be dynamic, transparent, and easily deployed for newcomers. Furthermore, with the different implementations in health care and agriculture mentioned later, we want to demonstrate the flexibility and adaptability of the design to various fields. © 2022 IEEE.
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The emergence of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) presented numerous solutions in the institutions of higher learning without connectivity challenges. The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 exerted more pressure on institutions of learning still reluctant to utilize technology in teaching and learning. The current study purposes to evaluate the technology integrated in the first-year level within the Mechanical Engineering department in the School of Engineering at the University of South Africa to ascertain performance encountered. The specific technology is a three-dimensional viewing tool to improve students understanding of isometric and orthographic engineering drawings. The research study targeted a previous assessment without the integration of the technology and compared with a current assessment after the intervention, for three first year drawing modules. Online technology adoption survey was utilised to measure the performance during the intervention. The findings of the research indicated that student's performance with respect to average grade drastically improved from approximately 55% to 70%. This result demonstrates a significant benefit from the intervention for students to develop their mental visualization skills required for technical drawing. © 2022 IEEE.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disturbances to the ways businesses operate, and has driven the entire industry to re-evaluate its operations. Although the full impact of the disruption will not be understood for some time, however, many companies are now beginning to re-examine and use lessons learned to become more resilient moving forward. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4.0) in Oil & Gas Industry creates a dynamic landscape where Operational Excellence (OE) strives for stability, quality, and efficiency while continuing to serve an increasingly demanding customer. Operational excellence is a journey, not a sole destination. Operational Excellence is a key strategic enabler to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on shape the business of tomorrow. In line with the company vision of digitalization, a number of initiatives were considered for studies and further evaluations to facilitate remote operations through digitization. Below is list of initiatives those were successfully implemented to promote remote field operations. • Critical equipment like compressors and pumps startup sequences development. • Establish communication of wells subsurface (downhole) sensors with the control room for real time data monitoring. • Development of wells start up sequences to facilities wells startup from control room. • Real time monitoring of wells annulus pressure from control room compared to traditional field monitoring. • Reset of Emergency Shutdown Valves (ESD) from control room instead of field. All of the above proposals have already been implemented. In-house field operations implementation resulted in huge Capital as well as Operating Expenditure saving. By enhancing remote operations, essential benefits are achieved including capability to faster and more effective decision-making and improved HSE measures. • Enhance production and reservoir optimization by real time data monitoring and troubleshooting. • Enhanced well integrity by real time annulus pressure monitoring. • Enhanced HSE by eliminating Confined Space Entries (CSEs) and exposure to toxic H2S. • Reduction and operating expenditure (OPEX) • Reduced dependency on human leading to less human error. • Reduction in capital expenditure (CAPEX) • Enhanced life of critical equipment Operational Excellence played its role with a value improvement objective. Rather than replacing successful practices and programs, Operational Excellence knitted them into a larger, fully integrated tapestry woven to increase value produced within the overall business strategy which is very evident in this scenario. This case study is blend of Digitalization, Operations Excellence and innovation representing Management support to employee to solve current issues during COVID-19 pandemic. Such support is always beneficial for the company and employees. Copyright © 2022, Society of Petroleum Engineers.