Assessment of the Industrial Enterprises Readiness for Digital Manufacturing in Bulgaria and Serbia

Svetoslav Dimkow (), Tatjana Sibalija () and Vidosav Majstorović ()
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Svetoslav Dimkow: Faculty of Management, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Tatjana Sibalija: European University – Belgrade, Faculty of Engineering International Management, Serbia
Vidosav Majstorović: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Chapter 2013-08 in The European Entrepreneurship: How Entrepreneurs (Should) Act in Global Business Environment. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference, 9 – 11 September 2013, Albena, Bulgaria, 2014, pp 154-176 from Bulgarian Association for Management Development and Entrepreneurship

Abstract: Companies today can only compete if they offer products and services that meet the customer's individual needs. The unpredictability of market changes, the growing product complexity and continuous pressure on production costs force companies to develop the ability of responding and adapting to change quickly and effectively. It becomes progressively clearer that the next generation of factories needs to be modular, scalable, flexible, open, agile and knowledge-based in order to be able to adapt, in real time, to the continuously changing market demands, technology options and regulations. Digital manufacturing has been considered, over the last decade, as a highly promising set of technologies for reducing product development time and cost as well as for addressing the need for customization, increased product quality, and faster response to the market. In this work, the system for evaluating industrial enterprises readiness for Digital manufacturing, created by the authors, is discussed. This system assesses the degree of maturity of 30 Concept business processes related to Digital manufacturing that are structured into three groups: Integrated product design; Factory planning; Production operations planning. Evaluation system has been piloted in one Bulgarian and one Serbian manufacturing SMEs.

Keywords: Mass customization; Collaborative manufacturing; Responsive manufacturing; Digital manufacturing; SMEs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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