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Minisymposium: Maths for the Digital Factory

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Part of the book series: Mathematics in Industry ((TECMI,volume 26))

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Around one in ten of all enterprises in the EU-27s non-financial business economy were classified to manufacturing in 2009, a total of 2.0 million enterprises. The manufacturing sector employed 31 million persons in 2009, generated 5.812 billion Euro of turnover and 1.400 billion Euro of value added. (source: Eurostat). In the last five or ten years all industrialised countries have launched initiatives related to digital manufacturing, sometimes also referred to as Industry 4.0 (in Europe) or Smart Manufacturing (US).

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Hömberg, D. (2017). Minisymposium: Maths for the Digital Factory. In: Quintela, P., et al. Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2016. ECMI 2016. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63082-3_51

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