Industry 4.0 Impacts on Lean Production Systems

By Tobias Wagner, Christoph Herrmann, S. Thiede. 2017

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Abstract The fourth industrial revolution and its Industry 4.0 or connected industry technologies dominates the current discussion of production research. Digital developments like cyber-physical Systems are the key technologies for future, more agile production systems but a common understanding of the term Industry 4.0 is not established in this time. First generic implementation approaches present manifold technical solutions but miss an integrated consideration with existing Lean Production Systems. The actual impact of Industry 4.0 solutions is mostly not clearly specified and a method to evaluate is missing. This paper introduces the Industry 4.0 in an environment of connectability in the Internet of Things and Services with the vision of a smart factory. The initial situation of industrial companies is characterized by Lean Production Systems and Lean Principles. For companies, Industry 4.0 offers an estimated benefit by stabilizing Lean processes with Industry 4.0 applications. To support the development process the presented Concept of an Industry 4.0 impact matrix on lean production systems gives a useable framework. The matrix considers elements of lean production systems with Industry 4.0 technologies and gives a first estimation of impact. In the described development process of a cyber-physical Just-in-Time delivery the matrix is used to find a stabilizing application for a Just-in-Time material supply process.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

Industry 4.0 and lean manufacturing practices for sustainable organisational performance in Indian manufacturing companies (2019, background): “There are few studies available in the literature that indicate a positive relationship between the I4 T and LMP (Sanders, Elangeswaran, and Wulfsberg 2016; Tortorella and Fettermann 2018; Wagner, Herrmann, and Thiede 2017).”
Information and digital technologies of Industry 4.0 and Lean supply chain management: a systematic literature review (2020, background): “0 act as a support mechanism for LM (Karre et al. 2017; Wagner, Herrmann, and Thiede 2017) with only a token number of studies that have found the opposite effect, i.e. that LM acts as a support to IDT of I4.”
Impacts of Industry 4.0 technologies on Lean principles (2019, methodology): “Wagner, Herrmann, and Thiede (2017) did similar work by studying the impact of 8 Industry 4.0 technologies on 11 Lean principles.”
The link between Industry 4.0 and lean manufacturing: mapping current research and establishing a research agenda (2018, background): “Wagner, Herrmann, and Thiede (2017) investigate what impact Industry 4.0 will have on existing lean practices.”