دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مدل ارزیابی IR4.0 انتقال دیجیتالی بنگاه های کوچک و متوسط - اشپرینگر 2018

Abstract.

This paper reports on the revolution of industry that leads to the current industry 4.0 through digital transformation. Industry 4.0 promotes innovation in organising and controlling for the entire value chain life cycle. The advancement of technology become future insights of digital transformation is aimed to have a high-flexibility, high-productivity, and become resource friendly that may provide a new level of human-machine relationship. The research is aimed in understanding the readiness of the Small Medium Enterprise (SME) in Malaysia towards digital transformation of Industry 4.0. Hence, a comparative study of the maturity assessment model towards industry 4.0 had been conducted. The IMPULS maturity assessment model is applied and six dimensions were chosen as our research model. Each dimension is explained, calculated and discussed in this paper. Each dimension is then weighted to refer to the level of readiness. The research uses questionnaires in attaining the data pertaining to the readiness of Malaysian SMEs towards industry 4.0. Next, findings of this research will be able to explain and provide a better understanding of where Malaysian SMEs stand in comparison to the maturity level that is set to test out the readiness of SMEs towards industry 4.0. This is to create and increase SMEs’ market sustainability hence creating or increasing profitability.

6 Conclusion

Industry 4.0 is a vision that describes the industry of the future. The specific potential lies above all in high-flexibility, high-productivity, and resource friendly production that makes it possible to manufacture highly individualised products under the economic conditions of mass production. Engineering, production, logistics, service, and marketing are ultimately interconnected in dynamic, real-time-optimised, valueadding cross-enterprise networks. Through implementation of Industry 4.0 the benefits are ability to control and monitor all its processes, personalisation, open communication and all this are achieved through the dimension of Industry 4.0. Furthermore, it will bring forward towards more sustainable industrial value creation. As per current research, this is predominantly categorized as contribution to the environmental dimension of sustainability. Apart from this characterisation, Industry 4.0 also embraces an impressive opportunity for pursuing sustainable industrial value creation on all three sustainability dimensions which are economic, social, and environmental.

Based on the findings above, Malaysian SMEs are lacking of knowledge pertaining to Industry 4.0 especially in terms of dimension of distribution control, data driven services, smart factory and strategy and organisation. It is hoped that by understanding the level of maturity among SMEs towards Industry 4.0 may assist them in using the technology to its fullest. However, there is a need to educate people for accepting machines as part of business advantage that respond to various requirements of customer and workers, rather than focusing on replacing operations and workers with machine. Lastly, embedding with knowledge about Industry 4.0 is a must in shaping it to achieve the strategy and goal set for their business with high value added operations and services that encourage in bringing human and machine interaction to the next level.