A critical review of smart manufacturing &amp; Industry 4.0 maturity models: Implications for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Mittal, Sameer; Khan, Muztoba Ahmad; Romero, David; Wuest, Thorsten

doi:10.1016/j.jmsy.2018.10.005

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“…The findings suggest that the manufacturing 4IR discourse has primarily been through the lens of Industry 4.0 concept applied in a non-contextual approach to country specific problems and strategic initiatives [16,40]. However, due to definitional differences of these terms (smart manufacturing/industry 4.0/smart factory) [5], there is a research gap and a related opportunity to contextualize 4IR concepts such as smart manufacturing to country specific problems and strategic initiatives. Table 2.…”

Section: What's In a Name: Smart Manufacturing Vs 4irmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Smart Manufacturing is an emerging 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) phenomena as a result of the convergence of various Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that improve manufacturing factors such as productivity, quality, delivery and flexibility [1][2][3][4]. Smart manufacturing relates to enabling industries and their manufacturing ecosystems to connect and adopt novel efficiency gains along their value and supply chains [5]. Smart Manufacturing as a new technological innovation is also seen as a key driver of improved manufacturing operations [6,7] and a catalyst of manufacturing intelligence [8].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There have been other systematic reviews [5,[13][14][15][16][17][18] to understand the factors inhibiting smart manufacturing adoption and implementation by SMMEs. Those reviews focused on different dimensions [5,[13][14][15][16] and contextual perspectives [17,18]. For example, Mittal et al [5,13,14] focused specifically on maturity models, while Hamdi [16] and Moeuf et al [15] focused on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and organisational dimensions respectively.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Those reviews focused on different dimensions [5,[13][14][15][16] and contextual perspectives [17,18]. For example, Mittal et al [5,13,14] focused specifically on maturity models, while Hamdi [16] and Moeuf et al [15] focused on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and organisational dimensions respectively. Nowotarski and Paslawski [17], and Sommer et al [18] focused on Germany and the construction sector.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The systematic review specifically focuses on the context of the research (lowincome or high-income country), the awareness (adequate knowledge), benefits (relative advantage), the technological innovations and readiness/adoption as important dimensions of interest. Based on the objective this review differentiates itself from previous similar reviews [5,[13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

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SMME Readiness for Smart Manufacturing (4IR) Adoption: A Systematic Review

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Smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory are phenomena regarded as a key necessity for Small, Medium and Micro Businesses (SMMEs) worldwide. Even though these 4 th Industrial Revolution (4IR) phenomena are generally used interchangeably, this paper sought to identify how SMME readiness for smart manufacturing has been investigated through a systematic review. The systematic review was conducted through the lens of Nooteboom, and Tornatzky and Klein's research on technological innovation in SMMEs based on Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory. The findings reveal that there is little to no research on smart manufacturing in relation to SMMEs in low-income countries particularly the African continent. The results also show that smart manufacturing is still an emergent phenomenon with disparate definitional challenges. These definitional challenges make the adoption of smart manufacturing innovations a challenge in resource-constrained contexts; but similarly present an opportunity for new definitions and theories in such contexts. The little research often treats SMMEs homogenously and as such misses their important heterogeneous (sector or industry specific) nature. Few research studies investigate SMME awareness (adequate knowledge) or make explicit the benefits (relative advantage) of smart manufacturing. Even fewer studies are explicit on the smart manufacturing technologies that are relevant for different SMME sectors. Smart manufacturing is identified as incompatible with SMME characteristics, that is SMMEs lack expertise/skills to comprehend the complexity of smart manufacturing, and also lack financial and human resources to implement smart manufacturing. Given that awareness, relative advantage, complexity and compatibility are critical barriers for SMME smart manufacturing readiness/adoption, there is a critical need for research to focus on these factors in particular for the context of resource constrained low-income country environments.

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Section: What's In a Name: Smart Manufacturing Vs 4irmentioning

confidence: 98%