A conceptual approach to analysing manufacturing companies’ profiles concerning Industry 4.0 in emerging economies

Horvat, Djerdj; Stahlecker, Thomas; Zenker, Andrea; Lerch, Christian; Mladineo, Marko

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2018.10.065

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“…5). These deterrent factors were listed based on their opinions and perspective of the industry, but were found to be in line with previous studies by Bauer et al (2019), Horvat et al (2018), and Müller (2019), suggesting that cost implications are high on the decision-making hierarchy among SMEs, who predominate the furniture sector. Nevertheless, it must be recognized that without the availability of knowledgeable and skilled local workforce, the journey of embarking Industry 4.0 technologies may be slow and challenging for Malaysian furniture manufacturers.…”

Section: The Level Of Readiness Among Furniture Manufacturers To Adopsupporting

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Assessing the awareness and readiness of the Malaysian furniture industry for Industry 4.0

Ratnasingam

Azim

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The lack of knowledgeable and skilled workers is a major challenge faced by the Malaysian furniture sector. It hinders industrial productivity and its ability to move up the value-chain by adopting high technology. Therefore, in order to assess the awareness and readiness of the Malaysian furniture industry for Industry 4.0, a questionnaire-based survey was conducted with a sample of 778 large-, medium-, and small-sized furniture manufacturers throughout Malaysia. This study is part of an on-going Erasmus+ program funded by the European Commission, initiated in 2018 to develop a university-level education program to train workers capable of handling Industry 4.0 technologies for the furniture and wood industry in Malaysia. The results revealed that manufacturers of wood-based panel and metal furniture were more prepared to adopt automation and Industry 4.0 technologies compared to solid-wood and leather furniture manufacturers. The benefits from Industry 4.0 technologies include increased production capacity, product diversity, cost competitiveness, and workforce reduction. Further, the results of this study suggest that the lack of knowledgeable and skilled workers to handle Industry 4.0 technology is a concern among furniture manufacturers, and possibly the proposed university-level Industry 4.0 program may be beneficial to train workers for the future of the industry.

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Section: The Level Of Readiness Among Furniture Manufacturers To Adopsupporting

confidence: 86%

Assessing the awareness and readiness of the Malaysian furniture industry for Industry 4.0

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Azim

et al. 2020

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“…Regarding the micro-conditions, the firms characteristics, such as the size, seems not to be particularly relevant in order to adopt the Industry 4.0 framework (Lin et al, 2018) whereas the strategy of the company, the intra-organisational communication, technologies implemented, employees, products/services and innovation are dimensions that influence the level of readiness of a company (Purdy et al, 2017;Swarnima et al, 2017;Tortella and Fettermann, 2017;Dewa et al, 2018;Horvat et al, 2018). Equally, the relationships between companies located in developed countries and firms from the developing countries foster the implementation of Industry 4.0.…”

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“…a client, innovation and cooperation focus). Second, financial availability and uncertainty issues should be addressed, as Horvat (2018) recommends. Finally, standardisation appears as a fundamental aspect to overcoming the challenges of Industry 4.0 implementation is the standardisation of industrialisation resulting in a network connection and information integration between different companies (Li et al, 2007;Feng et al, 2018;Gausemeier and Klocke, 2016;Vasin et al, 2018).…”

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“…Second, micro and macro-conditions to support the readiness of a company for the implementation of intelligent manufacturing have been identified. The strategy of the company, intra-organisational communication, technologies implemented, employees, products/services and innovation are factors to be quoted in the first dimension (Purdy et al, 2017;Swarnima et al, 2017;Tortella and Fettermann, 2017;Dewa et al, 2018;Horvat et al, 2018), whereas the collaboration of institutions and the technological level of the country can be recognised as macro-conditions (Li et al, 2018;Abbas et al, 2019).…”

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Catching the wave: Industry 4.0 in BRICS

Erro‐Garcés

Aranaz-Núñez

2020

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PurposeThis research aims to conduct, to the best of our knowledge, the first systematic review of the implementation of Industry 4.0 in BRICS. This review facilitates the identification of main factors that affect the readiness to adopt Industry 4.0 in BRICS and the role of different agents, such as multinationals, the public sector or educative institutions.Design/methodology/approachKey publications published from 2010 to 2019 have been analysed. A total of 61 papers have been selected from the systematic review.FindingsThree factors of convergence of BRICS to developed economies in terms of Industry 4.0 are identified: (1) the public initiatives that can also result in the attraction of talent from developed countries to BRICS; (2) the role of multinationals and (3) the implication of educational institutions.Research limitations/implicationsThis review has some limitations. First, some grey literature, such as reports from non-governmental organisations and front-line practitioners' reflections, were not included. Second, only research studies in English were reviewedPractical implicationsThe heterogeneity of BRICS amongst themselves affects the implementation of Industry 4.0 policies. Therefore, public policies should differ among countries to achieve the different readiness of companies within each country. Industry 4.0 cannot be understood as a manufacturing strategy against delocalisation, as emerging countries, such as BRICS, are also aware of the potential of automation.Originality/valueBased on a systematic review, this article shows that the strategy created by Germany to increase industrial productivity has been also introduced in BRICS countries as a critical factor to improve their competitiveness.

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“…Both researchers and practitioners have developed different readiness assessment models [17,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33]: for example, SPICE-based Industry 4.0-MM [27], Industry 4.0 readiness assessment tool [28], Industry 4.0 maturity model [19], Maturity Scoring Model [29], Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index [17], I4.0 general readiness assessment [31], etc. All models cover different focus areas such as Technology and Infrastructure, Governance and Cybersecurity, Organization, People and Culture, Value chain, and process Industry 4.0 Awareness [30].…”

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A Precondition of Sustainability: Industry 4.0 Readiness

2021

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To achieve sustainability and further develop their businesses, manufacturing companies need to find an appropriate response to the frequent changes in customer demands, development of new technologies, and dynamic competition. One of the possible requirements for sustainability is the adoption of the Industry 4.0 paradigm. This paper aims to apply Industry 4.0 general readiness assessment methodology and social network analysis to find out the readiness level of Serbian manufacturing and how digital technologies interplay during the time. The results of this study show that wireless human-machine communication technologies initiated the digital transformation of Serbian manufacturing from non-users to basic readiness level. Secondly, manufacturing companies significantly invested in the Cyber-Physical Production System to increase the level towards high readiness. Finally, manufacturing companies in Serbia should consider investing in capabilities to adapt the Near real-time production control system if aiming to compete with competitors from developed countries. The main contribution of this paper is to show the general readiness level of manufacturing companies for digital transformation in transition economies.

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A conceptual approach to analysing manufacturing companies’ profiles concerning Industry 4.0 in emerging economies

Cited by 35 publications

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Assessing the awareness and readiness of the Malaysian furniture industry for Industry 4.0

Assessing the awareness and readiness of the Malaysian furniture industry for Industry 4.0

Catching the wave: Industry 4.0 in BRICS

A Precondition of Sustainability: Industry 4.0 Readiness

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