Barriers to the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: An inter-country comparative perspective

Until recently, it was enough for industrial enterprises to buy the best available technology and use it more efficiently than competitors. Lean manufacturing was the most reliable tool to achieve the goal of forming a strategic economic portfolio. This paradigm ends today. Lean manufacturing by its philosophy forms a competitive advantage for the enterprise that has implemented Lean-tools in production processes. In this aspect, digitalization offers another way to increase productivity. Future competitiveness will be highest for those companies that plan to integrate lean manufacturing with digital technologies.Investments in digital technologies have become important, but the effectiveness of the transformation will depend not on special sensors, algorithms, models or Analytics tools, but on the effectiveness of the integration of Lean-tools with modern information technologies of production management. Production processes of companies operating in the nuclear power industry are not typical, which does not contribute to the effective implementation of packaged information products. The modern market of IT solutions is represented by a sufficient number of software products, but the specifics of the energy sector makes special demands on the digitization of management processes.In the near future, nuclear power companies will need to establish effective interaction and cooperation both within the company and with external partners, which is impossible without digital support for management decisions.

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“…The impact of LP technologies on process automation in the industry 4.0 concept. it is considered in works [6,7,8].…”

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Methodological Aspects of Evaluation of Digitalization of Lean Production Tools

Солдатова¹,

Ilyashenko²,

Soloviev³

2020

Proceedings of the “New Silk Road: Business Cooperation and Prospective of Economic Development” (NSRBCPED 2019)

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“…A previous study [42] discussed the challenges in the implementation of smart manufacturing and pointed out that significant challenges are related to system modeling, knowledge engineering, and human-machine symbiosis. Besides, the lack of clarity regarding the economic benefits of smart, sustainable manufacturing and the resistance to changes are barriers that need to be overcome [43]. In order to offer a step forward, it is necessary to clarify and address the challenges of a sustainably oriented industry 4.0 approach.…”

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Sustainable and Smart Manufacturing: An Integrated Approach

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The necessity for decreasing the negative impact of the manufacturing industry has recently increased. This is getting recognized as a global challenge due to the rapid increase in life quality standards, demand, and the decrease in available resources. Thus, manufacturing, as a core of the product provision system and a fundamental pillar of civilized existence, is significantly influenced by sustainability issues. Furthermore, current manufacturing modeling and assessment criteria require intensive revisions and upgrades to keep up with these new challenges. Nearly all current manufacturing models are based on the old paradigm, which was proven to be inadequate. Therefore, manufacturing technology, along with culture and economy, are held responsible for providing new tools and opportunities for building novel resolutions towards a sustainable manufacturing concept. One of such tools is sustainability assessment measures. Revising and updating such tools is a core responsibility of the manufacturing sector to efficiently evaluate and enhance sustainable manufacturing performance. These measures should be adequate to respond to the growing sustainability concerns in pursuit of an integrated sustainability concept. The triple bottom line (TBL) that includes environment, economic, and social dimensions has usually been used to evaluate sustainability. However, there is a lack of standard sets of sustainable manufacturing performance measures. In addition to the sustainability concept, a new concept of smart manufacturing is emerging. The smart manufacturing concept takes advantage of the recent technological leap in Artificial Intelligent (AI), Cloud Computing (CC), and the Internet of Things (IoT). Although this concept offers an important step to boost the current production capabilities to meet the growing need, it is still not clear whether the two concepts of smart manufacturing and sustainability will constructively or destructively interact. Therefore, the current study aims to integrate the sustainable smart manufacturing performance by incorporating sustainable manufacturing measures and discussing current and future challenges that are faced by the manufacturing sector. In addition, the opportunities for future research incorporating sustainable smart manufacturing are also presented.

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“…There are numerous factors preventing developing countries from adopting Industry 4.0, the biggest being the "lack of a digital strategy alongside resource scarcity" (Raj et al, 2019). Most companies, and even most governments, do not have the strategic roadmaps in place or the necessary resources to get their people ready for Industry 4.0.…”

Section: Factors Preventing Industry 40 Adoption In Developing Countmentioning

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“…Most of the other factors are centred around the work force -the humans performing the jobs that might be automated by machines in future. The lack of a trained and experienced work force is a big hurdle for companies (Raj et al, 2019). Many jobs that are seen as repetitive or boring are now automated and performed by machines.…”

Section: Factors Preventing Industry 40 Adoption In Developing Countmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Review of Hurdles to Adopting Industry 4.0 in Developing Countries

Roodt

Koen

2020

INCOSE International Symp

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The world is experiencing the fourth industrial revolution, and developing countries are experiencing it differently than developed countries. Developed countries have an advantage over developing countries in that they adopted industrialisation early, and this created a large gap between the two. Developed countries are not necessarily sustainable. Sustainable development is equally important in both developed and developing countries, but in different ways. Developed and developing countries will try to achieve sustainability development goals in different ways. Developed countries will most likely use the fourth industrial revolution to integrate technology into achieving their goals, while some developing countries might first need to catch up on industrial revolutions that they have skipped. Industrialisation, specifically that of the current revolution, will occur differently in developing countries. This paper describes this and discusses some of the hurdles that might hinder developing countries from adopting Industry 4.0, and develops an initial framework for readiness assessment.

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Barriers to the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: An inter-country comparative perspective

Abstract: Barriers to the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: An inter-country comparative perspective.

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Methodological Aspects of Evaluation of Digitalization of Lean Production Tools

Methodological Aspects of Evaluation of Digitalization of Lean Production Tools

Sustainable and Smart Manufacturing: An Integrated Approach

A Review of Hurdles to Adopting Industry 4.0 in Developing Countries

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