Industry 4.0 implementation framework for the producing industry

Guenther Schuh, Christoph Kelzenberg, Jan Wiese and Felix Stracke
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Guenther Schuh: Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Christoph Kelzenberg: Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Jan Wiese: Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Felix Stracke: Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Journal of Advances in Technology and Engineering Research, 2018, vol. 4, issue 2, 79-90

Abstract: The competitive pressure induced by progressing globalization has forced companies to find new ways of differentiation. Industry 4.0 as the synonym for the next significant step in value creation advancement offers new technologies and procedures to obtain further improvements in competitiveness. The real-time networking of people, machines and objects is not only an opportunity to leverage productivity potentials; it also enables new data-driven business models to achieve increase in revenues. Although the concept and enablers of industry 4.0 are widely known across the producing industry, companies struggle with its successful and sustainable implementation. Due to the often insufficient embedding of individual solutions in a coherent overall concept, implemented solutions cannot exploit potential synergies within the company. The presented paper introduces a framework to centrally control and synchronize Industry 4.0 activities within a company. By integrating bottom-up and top-down perceptions the framework facilitates the early identification and assessment of potential industry 4.0 applications as well as efficient development of specific solutions up to the implementation in series production. Consisting of an operationalization process and an organizational model optimized for horizontal and vertical exchange within the company, the framework enables a faster and more robust implementation of industry 4.0

Keywords: Industry 4.0; Implementation; Business strategy; Operationalization process; Organization model; Innovation management; Change management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.20474/jater-4.2.4

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