Challenges in Adoption of Industry 4.0 in Apparel Supply Chain: A Cross Case Study

Autor: C. P. Vivek, Timal Prakash, Amal T. Sasidharan, U. C. Amal Krishnan
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ISBN: 9789811612435
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1244-2_23
Popis: The research mainly revolves around Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and challenges of its adoption in apparel supply chain in Indian textile industry. Research questions were formulated to uncover the issues faced by the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of Indian textile industry in adopting I4.0. Attaining maximum efficiency in the bottom line operations is the most desired advantage of I4.0 in textile industry. Industry 4.0 is at the lowest priority for ready-made and garment industry because it is predominantly man power driven, and specialization is in a very less need of automation. It is found that cost of bringing latest technologies into the industry is detrimental at this point of time due to lower labour cost in the industry when compared to the available alternative technologies. There is a huge opportunity for future research in the area of ready-made and garment industry regarding the increase in productivity which is possible with I4.0 adoption.
Databáze: OpenAIRE