Defining stages of the Industry 4.0 adoption via indicator sets

Himang Celbert, Ocampo Lanndon (), Obiso Jun-Jun, Bongo Miriam, Caballes Shirley Ann, Abellana Dharyll Prince, Deocaris Custer and Ancheta Rosein
Additional contact information
Himang Celbert: Cebu Technological University, Philippines
Ocampo Lanndon: Cebu Technological University, Philippines
Obiso Jun-Jun: Cebu Technological University, Philippines
Bongo Miriam: Cebu Technological University, Philippines
Caballes Shirley Ann: Cebu Technological University, Philippines
Abellana Dharyll Prince: Cebu Technological University, Philippines
Deocaris Custer: Commission on Higher Education, Philippines
Ancheta Rosein: Cebu Technological University, Philippines

Engineering Management in Production and Services, 2020, vol. 12, issue 2, 32-55

Abstract: As Industry 4.0 offers significant productivity improvements, its relevance has grown across various organisations. While it captures the attention of both the industry and the academia, very few efforts have been made to streamline useful indicators across stages of its implementation. Such work facilitates the development of strategies that are appropriate for a specific stage of implementation; therefore, it would be significant to a variety of stakeholders. As a result, this paper aims to establish an indicator system for adopting Industry 4.0 within the context of the three stages of the innovation adoption: (i) pre-adoption, (ii) adoption, and (iii) post-adoption. First, a comprehensive review was performed with a search expanding into the literature on innovation and technology adoption. Second, the resulting indicators were filtered for relevance, redundancy, description, and thorough focus discussions. Finally, they were categorised by their stage of adoption. From 469 innovation adoption indicators found in the literature, this work identified a total of 62 indicators relevant for the Industry 4.0 adoption, in which 11, 14, and 37 of them comprised the three stages, respectively. Case studies from two manufacturing firms in the Philippines were reported to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed indicator system. This work pioneers the establishment of an indicator system for the Industry 4.0 adoption and the classification of such indicators into three stages — pre-adoption, adoption, and post-adoption — which would serve as a framework for decision-makers, practitioners, and stakeholders in planning, strategy development, resource allocation, and performance evaluation of the Industry 4.0 adoption.

Keywords: Industry 4.0; indicators; stages of adoption; management of Industry 4.0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2478/emj-2020-0010 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:ecoman:v:12:y:2020:i:2:p:32-55:n:3

DOI: 10.2478/emj-2020-0010

Access Statistics for this article

Engineering Management in Production and Services is currently edited by Joanna Ejdys

More articles in Engineering Management in Production and Services from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().