The Role of External Actors in SMEs’ Human-Centered Industry 4.0 Adoption: An Empirical Perspective on Italian Competence Centers

Ietto, Beatrice; Ancillai, Chiara; Sabatini, Andrea; Carayannis, Elias G.; Gregori, Gian Luca

doi:10.1109/tem.2022.3144881

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“…In this vein, SMEs can start collecting data about the products' uses and performances after sales to enable improvements due to datadriven analytics to improve and innovate products. SMEs with neither big-data processing facilities nor capacities to store transactional data could supply their data to OEMs or platforms and receive, in exchange, data-driven analytics to optimize their local decision-making (Ietto et al, 2022). However, SMEs who interconnect shop-floor machinery can benefit only when Industry 4.0 crosses the firm borders, leading to different interconnecting actors in the value chain, including suppliers and customers (Schmidt et al, 2023;Veile et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Barriers and Enablers for Industry 4.0 in SMEs: A Combined Integration Framework

Müller,

Islam,

Kazantsev

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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Although Industry 4.0 was introduced a decade ago, many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) still have not adopted several technologies. Therefore, integrating SMEs along horizontal, vertical, and end-to-end engineering dimensions remains challenging. Due to the importance of SMEs for industrial value chains, understanding SMEs' barriers and respective enablers for Industry 4.0 integration is vital. Applying a multiple case study approach, this paper investigates their experience in Industry 4.0 through technological, organizational, and environmental factors. We aggregate the barriers and respective enablers to Industry 4.0 into an integration framework, which helps to understand Industry 4.0 in SMEs from a broader viewpoint inside these firms, upstream and downstream supply chains, and beyond manufacturing. The findings show that the success of Industry 4.0 integration is more oriented toward operational benefits than strategic advantages and depends upon how these technologies are integrated with various stakeholders across the supply chain, such as original equipment manufacturers, R&D agencies, or sub-suppliers.

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Section: V2 Contribution To Literature and Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Barriers and Enablers for Industry 4.0 in SMEs: A Combined Integration Framework

Müller,

Islam,

Kazantsev

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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“…Thus, the advanced technologies in manufacturing operations including 3D printing, additive manufacturing and for allied operations technologies including IIoT, Blockchain technology and machine learning algorithm, collectively known as IE 4.0 technologies enhance productivity, operational excellence and service delivery (Dutta et al, 2022;Kamble et al, 2019;. These IE 4.0-driven technologies can improve the SME-focal firm's information exchange throughout the ecosystem and thus enable effective control and performance operation decisions in a real-time situation (Asokan et al, 2022;Ietto et al, 2022;Pham and Vu, 2022). The other operational performance improvement is operation flexibility, cost optimization, productivity enhancement, quality enrichment and reduced delivery time (Antony et al, 2021a, b;Yadav et al, 2020) In the light of IE 4.0, SMEs can improve their operations through real-time monitoring and can enable the unitary and customized fabrication of products (de Paula Ferreira et al, 2022).…”

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“…These IE 4.0-driven technologies can improve the SME-focal firm's information exchange throughout the ecosystem and thus enable effective control and performance operation decisions in a real-time situation (Asokan et al. , 2022; Ietto et al. , 2022; Pham and Vu, 2022).…”

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Critical challenges of integrating OPEX strategies with I4.0 technologies in manufacturing SMEs: a few pieces of evidence from developing economies

Joshi

Sharma

Bartwal

et al. 2022

TQM

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PurposeThe study proposes to determine the impending challenges to lean integration with Industry 4.0 (I4.0) in manufacturing that aims at achieving desired operational performance. Integrating lean and Industry 4.0 as the two industrial approaches is synergetic in providing operational benefits such as increasing flexibility, improving productivity, reducing cost, reducing delivery time, improving quality and value stream mapping (VSM). There is an urgent need to understand the integrated potential of OPEX strategies like lean manufacturing and also to determine the challenges for manufacturing SMEs and further suggest a strategic roadmap for the future.Design/methodology/approachThe current work has used a combined approach on interpretative structural modeling (ISM) and fuzzy Matrice d'impacts croisés multiplication appliquée á un classment (MICMAC) approach to structure the multiple level analysis for the implementation challenges to integrate OPEX strategies with Industry 4.0.FindingsThe research has found that the indulgence of various implementation issues like lack of standardization, lack of vision and lack of trained support, all are the major challenges that inhibit the integration of OPEX strategies with I4.0 technologies in manufacturing.Research limitations/implicationsThe research has investigated the internal factors acting as a roadblock to lean and Industry 4.0 adoption. Further studies may consider external factors to lean and Industry 4.0 implementation. Also, further research may consider other operational excellence approaches and extend further to relevant sectors.Practical implicationsThis study provides the analysis of barriers that is useful for the managers to take strategic actions for implementing OPEX strategies with I4.0 in smart manufacturing.Originality/valueThe research determines the adoption challenges towards the integrated framework. This is the first study to explore challenges in integrating OPEX strategies with I4.0 technologies in manufacturing SMEs.

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“…v. Industry 5.0 added human-centric, sustainable, and resilient concepts to the industrial revolution. It will revolutionize the manufacturing systems worldwide by preventing repetitive tasks from human workers [32]. The intelligent robots will penetrate manufacturing supply chains as well as the workflow of the production to unparalleled levels.…”

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“…There is the reduction of the risks related to supply chain and wastages based on the existing information of the business. Ietto et al [32]concluded that there is the improvement of the supply chain integration for the strategic partnerships and enabled the supply chains to spend time on the experimentation plus less on the fighting forces on matters for the project executions.…”

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Future of industry 5.0 in society: human-centric solutions, challenges and prospective research areas

Adel

2022

J Cloud Comp

266

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Industry 4.0 has been provided for the last 10 years to benefit the industry and the shortcomings; finally, the time for industry 5.0 has arrived. Smart factories are increasing the business productivity; therefore, industry 4.0 has limitations. In this paper, there is a discussion of the industry 5.0 opportunities as well as limitations and the future research prospects. Industry 5.0 is changing paradigm and brings the resolution since it will decrease emphasis on the technology and assume that the potential for progress is based on collaboration among the humans and machines. The industrial revolution is improving customer satisfaction by utilizing personalized products. In modern business with the paid technological developments, industry 5.0 is required for gaining competitive advantages as well as economic growth for the factory. The paper is aimed to analyze the potential applications of industry 5.0. At first, there is a discussion of the definitions of industry 5.0 and advanced technologies required in this industry revolution. There is also discussion of the applications enabled in industry 5.0 like healthcare, supply chain, production in manufacturing, cloud manufacturing, etc. The technologies discussed in this paper are big data analytics, Internet of Things, collaborative robots, Blockchain, digital twins and future 6G systems. The study also included difficulties and issues examined in this paper head to comprehend the issues caused by organizations among the robots and people in the assembly line.

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The Role of External Actors in SMEs’ Human-Centered Industry 4.0 Adoption: An Empirical Perspective on Italian Competence Centers

Cited by 14 publications

References 50 publications

Barriers and Enablers for Industry 4.0 in SMEs: A Combined Integration Framework

Barriers and Enablers for Industry 4.0 in SMEs: A Combined Integration Framework

Critical challenges of integrating OPEX strategies with I4.0 technologies in manufacturing SMEs: a few pieces of evidence from developing economies

Future of industry 5.0 in society: human-centric solutions, challenges and prospective research areas

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