Modeling the Industry 4.0 adoption for sustainable production in Micro, Small &amp; Medium Enterprises

Khanzode, Akshay G.; Sarma, P. R. S.; Mangla, Sachin Kumar; Yuan, Hongjun

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123489

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“…A crucial issue to be taken into account in the development of such smart ICPS systems is to look and think beyond the technology, taking special attention to business, socialorganizational, economic, and ethical aspects. Beyond technology, financial and knowledge constraints are found to be key challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises that constitute the majority of Europe's businesses [13] and similar results are also evident in other studies [73]. In addition, other aspects such as resistance by employees or middle-management need to be considered as they hinder the adoption of Industry 4.0 [74].…”

Section: G Business Orientation and Ethicssupporting

confidence: 67%

Quo Vadis Industry 4.0? Position, Trends, and Challenges

Leitão

Pires

Karnouskos

et al. 2020

IEEE Open J. Ind. Electron. Soc.

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Industry 4.0 vision and its mandated digital transformation are radically reshaping the way business is carried out and the way overall industrial processes and collaborations are operating. In this work, the objective is to analyze the current level of adoption of Industry 4.0, via the footprint available in industrial and academic research works. The analysis performed reveals insights on how Industry 4.0 has impacted and is still influencing research and innovation in industrial systems, services, and business approaches. It also reveals pertinent trends on key enabling features, technologies and challenges associated with this 4 th industrial revolution, mainly focusing on the pathways for wider industrial adoption of Industry 4.0-compliant technologies and solutions.

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Section: G Business Orientation and Ethicssupporting

confidence: 67%

Quo Vadis Industry 4.0? Position, Trends, and Challenges

Leitão

Pires

Karnouskos

et al. 2020

IEEE Open J. Ind. Electron. Soc.

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“…Italian companies use, on average, about 20 kg of a mix of raw materials called ceramic body to manufacture 1 square meter of tiles [48]. In 2020, the Italian ceramic industry produced 344.3 million square meters of tiles [49], so the natural raw material requirement was: 344.3 million m 2 × 20 kg/m 2 = 6.886 million tons (1) The main material supply sources of the Italian ceramic industry are located in Turkey (sodium feldspar), Ukraine (ball clays), Germany (ball clays), and, to a lesser extent, in Italy (potassium feldspar, kaolinitic volcanic clays, and sands) [44]. Recent studies carried out in the same industry have shown that the environmental impact of the finished product is attributable not only to the production process in the strict sense but also to the raw material sourcing system.…”

Section: Industrial Background and Methodological Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The manufacturing world has now taken up the challenge of the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0 [1], which is based on two foundations: automation [2] and data [3]. The new manufacturing paradigm of smart factories [4] is able to create environments that can adapt processes in real time to current needs through the elaboration of information based on the digital technologies of the Internet of Things [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industry 4.0 and Smart Data as Enablers of the Circular Economy in Manufacturing: Product Re-Engineering with Circular Eco-Design

et al. 2021

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The digital transformation of manufacturing firms, in addition to making operations more efficient, offers important opportunities both to promote the transition to a circular economy and to experiment with new techniques for designing smarter and greener products. This study integrates Industry 4.0 technologies, smart data, Life Cycle Assessment methodology, and material microstructural analysis techniques to develop and apply a circular eco-design model that has been implemented in the Italian ceramic tile manufacturing industry. The model has been initially adopted in a simulation environment to define five different scenarios of raw material supply, alternative to the current production one. The scenarios were then validated operationally at laboratory scale and in a pilot environment, demonstrating that a proper selection of raw material transport systems significantly improves the environmental performance of the ceramic product. Both the results of the laboratory tests and of the pre-industrial experiments have demonstrated the technological feasibility of the solutions identified with circular eco-design, enabling the re-engineering of the ceramic product as the fifth of the 6Rs of the circular economy.

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“…The digital economy contributes to sustainable socio-ecological and economic development; virtualization of production contributes to saving resources and preserving the natural environment, energy distribution, replacing non-renewable resources with their counterparts created using information technology in a virtual environment [23].…”

Section: Production Virtualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

System analysis of digital economy virtualization processes

Simchenko¹,

Apatova²,

Korolev³

2021

P Sci Edu

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The virtualization of socio-economic processes is expressed in the development of various types of economic activities in the Internet computer network, acting as the infrastructure of the modern economic system, a catalyst for globalization processes, and the main means of communication between computers, information systems of various purposes and complexity, and people. The study of the theoretical and methodological problem of digital economy virtualization processes is due to the importance of determining the structure of virtualization as a set of interconnected industries, consumption, markets, and finance on the Internet. The elements of the system combine the types of economic activities, which include entrepreneurship on the Internet, as well as information and intellectual activities. The study of this problem was carried out using empirical methods of cognition of the structure of the system analysis of digital economy virtualization processes, along with the use of scientometric methods for reviewing the methodology of the educational process for training digital economy personnel and improving their qualifications as a precursor to the design of production processes, consumption, market and financial processes occurring in a digital environment. The conducted studies make it possible to obtain scientific results in the field of structuring the socio-economic processes of virtualization, namely: a dichotomy of virtualization processes in the digital economy is proposed, taking into account the factor of education; the positive and negative consequences of virtualization for the economy and society as a whole are identified. It was concluded in the course of the study that the system analysis of digital economy virtualization processes should be based on the development of the educational component and reflect the environment of virtualization processes, including digital platforms, which, first, form the global infrastructure of the world economy; second, they contribute to the development of entrepreneurship; third, they provide production, consumer, market and financial functions and corporate governance; fourth, they are a source of network externalities that create new social and economic problems. The prospect for further research is the development of a model for assessing the impact of the structure of virtualization processes on economic growth in the digital economy.

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Modeling the Industry 4.0 adoption for sustainable production in Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

Cited by 126 publications

References 62 publications

Quo Vadis Industry 4.0? Position, Trends, and Challenges

Quo Vadis Industry 4.0? Position, Trends, and Challenges

Industry 4.0 and Smart Data as Enablers of the Circular Economy in Manufacturing: Product Re-Engineering with Circular Eco-Design

System analysis of digital economy virtualization processes

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