Digital Technologies-Enabled Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Lessons Learnt from a Pandemic

摘要

The “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Type 2” (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the infectious agent responsible for the generally mild but sometimes life-threatening communicable disease known as “Coronavirus Disease 2019” (COVID-19). Since late December, the virus has quickly spread out from its first epicenter, the city of Wuhan, province of Hubei, mainland China, where an initial outbreak had occurred, into neighboring countries and territories, becoming a global pandemic and with high death rates.