TY - JOUR
T1 - Industry 4.0 maturity follow-up inside an internal value chain
T2 - a case study
AU - Alcácer, Vítor
AU - Rodrigues, João
AU - Carvalho, Helena
AU - Cruz-Machado, Virgílio
N1 - Funding Information:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00667%2F2020/PT#
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - Social, economic, and technological developments are leading companies to face new production challenges. The use of information and communication technologies offers to companies physical and virtual structures, allowing cooperation and quick adaptation along all value chain. However, companies are using those technologies without a proper integration with business partners and even with internal departments. This is the research gap under analysis on this study. Using a readiness model to measure the status of the industry 4.0 enabling technologies adoption inside a company, is possible to transmite knowledge, and pathing initiatives to help on progress and monitorization. This study presents the industry 4.0 enabling technologies readiness level of three departments of one automotive company internal value chain, and discusses the limitations to reach better levels. It also presents the potential results if the benefits of industry 4.0 enabling technologies were reached on a company that assumes to be aligned with the industry 4.0 strategy.
AB - Social, economic, and technological developments are leading companies to face new production challenges. The use of information and communication technologies offers to companies physical and virtual structures, allowing cooperation and quick adaptation along all value chain. However, companies are using those technologies without a proper integration with business partners and even with internal departments. This is the research gap under analysis on this study. Using a readiness model to measure the status of the industry 4.0 enabling technologies adoption inside a company, is possible to transmite knowledge, and pathing initiatives to help on progress and monitorization. This study presents the industry 4.0 enabling technologies readiness level of three departments of one automotive company internal value chain, and discusses the limitations to reach better levels. It also presents the potential results if the benefits of industry 4.0 enabling technologies were reached on a company that assumes to be aligned with the industry 4.0 strategy.
KW - Business partners integration
KW - Industry 4.0
KW - Internal departments’ integration
KW - Maturity and readiness models
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123087394&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00170-021-08476-3
DO - 10.1007/s00170-021-08476-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123087394
SN - 0268-3768
VL - 119
SP - 5035
EP - 5046
JO - International Journal Of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
JF - International Journal Of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
IS - 7-8
ER -