Industry 4.0 technologies: Implementation patterns in manufacturing companies

By A. Frank, Lucas Santos Dalenogare, N. F. Ayala. International Journal of Production Economics, 2019

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Abstract Industry 4.0 has been considered a new industrial stage in which several emerging technologies are converging to provide digital solutions. However, there is a lack of understanding of how companies implement these technologies. Thus, we aim to understand the adoption patterns of Industry 4.0 technologies in manufacturing firms. We propose a conceptual framework for these technologies, which we divided into front-end and base technologies. Front-end technologies consider four dimensions: Smart Manufacturing, Smart Products, Smart Supply Chain and Smart Working, while base technologies consider four elements: internet of things, cloud services, big data and analytics. We performed a survey in 92 manufacturing companies to study the implementation of these technologies. Our findings show that Industry 4.0 is related to a systemic adoption of the front-end technologies, in which Smart Manufacturing plays a central role. Our results also show that the implementation of the base technologies is challenging companies, since big data and analytics are still low implemented in the sample studied. We propose a structure of Industry 4.0 technology layers and we show levels of adoption of these technologies and their implication for manufacturing companies.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Information Systems, Marketing

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A digital supply chain twin for managing the disruption risks and resilience in the era of Industry 4.0 (2020, background): “Some researchers point out a trend towards digital twins, i.e. computerised models that represent a physical object in real time (Negri, Fumagalli, and Macchi 2017; Alla et al. 2019; Frank, Dalenogare, and Ayala 2019; Singh et al. 2019).”
Exposure of occupations to technologies of the fourth industrial revolution (2021, methodology): “Additionally, Frank et al. (2019a) explain in their widely used framework of Industry 4.0, that several base technologies (e.g., cloud computing) support the implementation of “smart” (or intelligent) front end technologies.”
Researchers' perspectives on Industry 4.0: multi-disciplinary analysis and opportunities for operations management (2020, neutral): “0 as an integrity of technologies and management-organizational principles in manufacturing and supply chains in the first decades of the XXI century (Mittal et al. 2018, Xu et al. 2018, Frank et al. 2019).”
Information and digital technologies of Industry 4.0 and Lean supply chain management: a systematic literature review (2020, background): “0 (Drath and Horch 2014; Ghobakhloo 2018; Frank, Dalenogare, and Ayala 2019; Ghobakhloo 2019).”