Progress Towards Low-Cost Industrial Digitalisation for SMEs

Autor: McFarlane, D., Hawkridge, G., Kaiser, J., Mukherjee, A., Terrazas, G.
Zdroj: IFAC-PapersOnLine; January 2024, Vol. 58 Issue: 19 p825-830, 6p
Abstrakt: Improved functionality rather than cost has been the main driver for industrial digital systems developments over the last 30 years. Given the large number of outstanding challenges this has been a logical direction to take but has meant that many industrial companies - especially small ones - do not have sufficient budget to add digital solutions to their operations. The field of low-cost industrial digitalisation which has emerged over the last ten years in which cost is given a higher priority than functionality. This paper charts the evolution of the field and discusses the scope and applicability of such low-cost solutions and argues that a systematic approach to specification, design and deployment of these solutions can be effective in increasing the confidence of industrial organisations in applying them.
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