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Challenges for Logistics Education in Industry 4.0

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Logistics 4.0, as well as Industry 4.0 is setting high demands on the education process, as logistics will need highly skilled workers. Not only specialists, but also operational workers will soon perform mainly organizational and conceptual tasks. This causes the necessity of adapting educational process to a new situation. The objective of this paper is to present the analysis of the challenges for logistic education. In research, the selected logistic companies and universities in the Lodz Region in Poland were investigated. There were conducted: Individual In-depth Interview with companies and universities representatives, survey with employed on logistics work positions and analyses of logistics study programs. The research was conducted in the Lodz Region, which is predestined for the development of logistics, because of its central location and developing road infrastructure. The paper presents the results of an analysis of the requirements for education in Logistics 4.0.

The original version of this chapter was revised: Department name in the editor’s affiliation has been changed. The erratum to the book is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93882-0_46

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Wrobel-Lachowska, M., Polak-Sopinska, A., Wisniewski, Z. (2019). Challenges for Logistics Education in Industry 4.0. In: Nazir, S., Teperi, AM., Polak-Sopińska, A. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 785. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93882-0_32

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