From Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0: Current Trends in Research and Education for Industry 5.0

Over the last decade, the world has seen significant technological changes characterized by complex digitization of technical and non-technical processes. All industrial revolutions to date have represented significant milestones in our lives triggering significant changes towards improvement of the quality of life, increasing safety, reliability and comfort. The current state-of-the-art in the development and modernization of industrial production has its roots in the Fourth Industrial Revolution which has enabled the digitization and transformation of production based on modern automatic control methods, advanced IoT technologies and new platforms for the organization and management of production built on cyber-physical principles. Industry 5.0 - the forthcoming industrial revolution is purposefully building on the direction and results achieved and continues the set trends and aims to achieve further goals to optimize and improve conditions in people’s professional and personal lives. Industry 5.0 can be defined as the next phase of industrialization in which people and advanced technologies work together in harmony to increase productivity, innovation and sustainability. Unlike its predecessor Industry 4.0 which focused on complex automation, Industry 5.0 puts more emphasis on humans, ensuring that technology serves people rather than replacing them. Such an understanding of new directions in complex digitization of processes requires the creation of new ways and forms of education in the near future, with an emphasis put on nurturing graduates with a higher level of skills and creativity. The new industrial revolution Industry 5.0 must therefore be based on new paradigms based on interdisciplinarity in education to ensure a high degree of long-term sustainability. This paper proposes novel forms and ways of research and education in line with the requirements and trends declared in the industry 5.0 concept.