The Readiness of Automotive Manufacturing Company on Industrial 4.0 Towards Quality Performance

Abstract

This research is focusing on analyzing readiness of automotive manufacturing firm on Industry 4.0 towards quality performance. In the era of globalization, most manufacturing firms all over the world are constantly looking for ways to increase productivity. The manufacturing industry is mainly faced with the problem of Industry 4.0’s awareness and implementation. Top and middle management of DRB-HICOM Automotive manufacturing firm from all departments have been selected as a sample study. The questionnaire has been used to get the feedback from top and middle management about readiness of Industry 4.0. There are three main objectives that were assessing the level of firm’s characteristics, determining the level of Industry 4.0 readiness for DRB-HICOM Automotive manufacturing company, namely via variables of Applied Technology, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical System (CPS) and determining the relationship between the Industry 4.0 and quality performance. Quantitative method was used in this research which incoperates the distribution of 96 questionnaires to the respondents involving DRB-HICOM Automotive manufacturing firm. In terms of conducting the required data analysis, Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22 was used. Result shows that all related constructs have a significant yet strong relationship between Industry 4.0 and quality performance. It is hoped that this initial Industry 4.0 work will help to spur future research about implementation of Industry 4.0, across the boards among many industrial sectors.

Benchmarking Industry 4.0 readiness evaluation using fuzzy approaches

“…Tasmin et al. (2020) utilized quantitative methodology to assess I4.0 readiness of automotive organization.…”

“…Also, the studies mainly considered technological aspect for I4.0 assessment (Samaranayake et al, 2017). Few studies adopted survey methodology to understand the status of I4.0 in automotive component manufacturing firms (Bassi, 2017;Tasmin et al, 2020;Dudukalov et al, 2021). India's readiness towards I4.0 in automotive component industries was seen as preferred investment destination by major automotive organizations (Khanna et al, 2020).…”

“…The findings showed that big data maturity and I4.0 infrastructure were the key dimensions enabling readiness of I4.0 in European manufacturing firms. Tasmin et al (2020) utilized quantitative methodology to assess I4.0 readiness of automotive organization. The authors distributed 96 questionnaires to automotive organizations and identified the relationship between I4.0 and quality performance using statistical package.…”

Readiness levels of Industry 4.0 technologies applied to aircraft manufacturing—a review, challenges and trends

“…Inside this context, the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) represents a new technological era that comprises the use of Internet-based technologies, focused on intelligent systems that continuously acquire and process data exchanging information between machines and systems [ 3 , 4 ]. It is also described as the Industry Internet of things (IoT), which connects smart devices to monitor the manufacturing processes [ 5 , 6 ]. These networked interconnections of devices allow the communication among individuals and technologies in cyber-physical systems (CPS) [ 7 ].…”