SMART FACTORY & AMP; MANAGEMENT 4.0 VISION FOR APPAREL INDUSTRY IN ROMANIA

Luminita Cristina Simion and Silvia Avasilcai

Proceedings of the INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE, 2020, vol. 14, issue 1, 572-584

Abstract: The vision of smart factory for production organization is still in the early stage of implementation in Romania,especially for non-durable items industry,such as textile & apparel field of activity.The practical experience into the trade draw to the conclusion that the antrepenerial interest is more concentrated on the services domain less difficult to process control and faster profitability, than production, besides the main concepts of Industry4.0.One of them is identified as smart factory or refference architectural mode,both are quite new and also not fully clarified for business environment.The advantages offered by digitalitasion technologies are not completed comprehended,mainly due to shortage of social interest into the field.The best practice examples of Industry 4.0 into clothing or non-durable industry are not functioning yet in Romania ,in order to be followed, only at the level of niche high tech industries which for the moment demand valuable investment in creativity,complex information tehnology and long time for return of investment.The latest events of pandemic crisis prove once again the importance of solid economic ground which a crucial role is played by an industrial engine autonomy with production stakeholders in the proximity of each country and continent.This study is aiming to research the conditions of functioning the smart factory,as a relevant model of digitalised manufacturing unit and implementation of Apparel 4.0 as particular field of Industry 4.0.One of the main concern of this thesis is the proper understanding, implementation and certain challenges to be faced in regard to refference arhitectural model concept for apparel business.The model is still pending for a complete standardization of supply chain and operations between enterprises.A potential direction of study is the shifting model of Leavitt’s diamond of change to be analized, for a potential set-up on apparel industry as a particular case for commodities.The long chain of activities into the trade, involving a consistent content of human manufacturing effort request an assembly study,solving the integration of all the links from design,producing until dispatch on the market, which actually is affected by divergent interest of either retailers interests on low price,fast fashion and quick delivery or the creative work shops looking into elaborated costly products which need to be produced into a smart factory capable of versatility,multiskilled human work force with quality reliable level. A proper comprehension of RAMI(refference architectural model4.0)could offer a solution to obtain the smart relation between the product, producer and final client integrated virtually through digitalitasion tehchnologies benefits.

Keywords: Digitalitasion; Industry.40; Leavitt diamond of changes; RAMI model; Smart factory. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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