Industry Trends to 2040

DS 94: Proceedings of the Design Society: 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED19)

Year: 2019
Editor: Wartzack, Sandro; Schleich, Benjamin; Gon
Author: Eckert, Claudia (1); Isaksson, Ola (2); Hallstedt, Sophie (3); Malmqvist, Johan (2)
Series: ICED
Institution: The Open University
Section: Industry 4.0
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.218
ISSN: 2220-4342

Abstract

The engineering design community needs to development tools and methods now to support emerging technological and societal trends. While many forecasts exist for technological and societal changes, this paper reports on the findings of a workshop, which addressed trends in engineering design to 2040. The paper summarises the key findings from the six themes of the workshop: societal trends, ways of working, lifelong learning, technology, modelling and simulation and digitisation; and points to the challenge of understanding how these trends affect each other

Keywords: Trends, Societal consequences, Design process, Systems Engineering (SE)

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