Drivers and barriers for Industry 4.0 readiness and practice:empirical evidence from small and medium-sized manufacturers
| Autor: | Kristian Philipsen, Anders Haug, Kent Adsbøll Wickstrøm, Jan Stentoft |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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021103 operations research
Industry 4.0 Strategy and Management barriers 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology drivers Management Science and Operations Research Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Computer Science Applications 0502 economics and business Business Empirical evidence mixed method 050203 business & management Industrial organization readiness |
| Zdroj: | Stentoft, J, Adsbøll Wickstrøm, K, Philipsen, K & Haug, A 2021, ' Drivers and barriers for Industry 4.0 readiness and practice : empirical evidence from small and medium-sized manufacturers ', Production Planning and Control, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 811-828 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2020.1768318 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09537287.2020.1768318 |
| Popis: | The technological development e.g. in terms of Industry 4.0 is moving rapidly enabling manufacturing companies with new possibilities for digital transformations to offer products and services to current and new markets at competitive costs. A mixed-method approach is used to investigate the drivers and barriers for Industry 4.0 readiness and practice among Danish small and medium-sized manufacturers. Data is based on a questionnaire-survey among 190 manufacturers about their readiness for digitalized manufacturing and their actual practice in this area. A main finding is that it is the managers’ lack of perceiving Industry 4.0 drivers, not their perceptions of high Industry 4.0 barriers that obstruct SMEs’ development of Industry 4.0 readiness and their application of Industry 4.0 technologies. Using these insights provide four more nuanced interpretations of the significance of the Industry 4.0 challenges faced by the four case companies. The finding that SMEs seem to engage positively with Industry 4.0 barriers, when there is perceived a business case to do so, has important consequences for our understanding of the inertial dynamics surrounding SMEs’ Industry 4.0 application, and consequently for guiding policy initiatives to promote Industry 4.0 adaptation among SMEs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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