Lean Information and Communication Tool to Connect Shop and Top Floor in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Müller, Rainer; Vette, Matthias; Hörauf, Leenhard; Speicher, Christoph; Burkhard, Dirk

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2017.07.215

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“…In this paper, the use of a maturity index [20] has supported the clarification of development directions for sharing information and knowledge in ways unimagined by the interviewees. On the other hand, such new directions may bring unintended implications if certain pre-requisites are not fulfilled, e.g., sufficient knowledge base to be shared [29,35], humans becoming a central part of planning and their skills correctly assessed [30,31], and some departments or processes fail to become digitalized on par with others and thus creating a digitalization gap between departments or processes [33,36]. These examples cause risk for implementations of Industry 4.0 enabling technologies to become misused or disused by Operator 4.0, which is of interest for future research.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, Industry 4.0 is very technology-driven, which is also reflected in Table 1, where all the papers that consider human factors also deal with its interaction with automation, with the exception of one paper [31], which focused more on the humans in an organizational context. Five of the papers also connect human factors and technology to an organizational context [32][33][34][35][36].…”

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“…None of the papers is actually stating that companies have actually achieved any level of Industry 4.0 implementation when it comes to information and knowledge sharing among people working in SMEs. Two papers propose software architecture [28,29], three papers explore future opportunities [30][31][32], two papers have developed prototype tools that could be implemented [33,35], and two papers review current state in relation to Industry 4.0 [34,36]. While Zhong et al [34] reviews intelligent manufacturing in general, independent of SMEs or large companies, Neirotti et al [36] focus on ICT-based capabilities with a quantitative research approach.…”

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“…2018 [33] Technology and Organization Proposes to implement a modular intelligent workpiece carrier with an interface to support operators' with relevant information.…”

Section: Industry 40 Maturity Indexmentioning

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Current and future Industry 4.0 capabilities for information and knowledge sharing

Fast-Berglund

Paulin

2019

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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Humans are indispensable in the manufacturing industry as its complexity increases in an Industry 4.0 context, mainly due to changing customer demands. Managing the challenges of increased complexity can create a competitive advantage for SMEs. Technologies which enable the emerging phenomenon of Industry 4.0 have the possibility to simplify the sharing of information and knowledge among people at work, especially for Operator 4.0. However, few SMEs have actually implemented such technologies for this purpose. Therefore, this paper aims to create an understanding of the current state and challenges which need to be overcome, and further, to provide some insights on future possibilities by identifying the stages of Industry 4.0 development of SMEs with regards to their capabilities. This qualitative interview study focuses on how human-centered production processes are currently supporting assembly and office work. Two Swedish SMEs were studied, where almost all of their operators and management team on site were interviewed individually concerning their views on their current capabilities. The interviews were thematically analyzed with regards to the state-of-the-art research, and results show that the case companies are in some aspects digitized with regards to computerization and connectivity, but have some challenges in making the shared production-related information more visible and transparent, especially on shop-floors where most information and knowledge are shared through word of mouth or with pen and paper. Conclusively, the studied SMEs have started their digitalization journey, but further Industry 4.0 development needs to align with their respective conditions and needs. While Industry 4.0 enabling technologies that support information and knowledge sharing are emerging, organizational development can support the implementation of such technologies, which should be the focus for future research.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Researchmentioning

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Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2018 [33] Technology and Organization Proposes to implement a modular intelligent workpiece carrier with an interface to support operators' with relevant information.…”

Section: Industry 40 Maturity Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Current and future Industry 4.0 capabilities for information and knowledge sharing

Fast-Berglund

Paulin

2019

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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“…The real-time collected data can be stored and further used for continuous improvement implementation. Müller et al [20] propose a computerized production solution that aims to install CPS along the value chain in order to digitalize the information sharing between shop floor and business departments, achieving more responsive, optimized and leaner processes. This solution supports employees with recording and communication of changes about components and technical drawing, which allows the reduction of projects overall cycle time, decreasing the number of errors and increasing of departments' capacity, which allows the achievement of better customer satisfaction…”

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How Industry 4.0 can enhance Lean practices

Pereira¹,

Dinis‐Carvalho²,

Alves³

et al. 2019

FME Transactions

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The global industrial landscape has deeply changed over the last few years and the Industry 4.0 concept has emerged, being enabled by successive disruptive innovations and technological development that have transformed manufacturing processes. This concept is being pointed out as the fourth industrial revolution that embraces a set of new technologies that are shaping the future manufacturing vision. However, Lean Production is a widely used manufacturing approach that brings several benefits to organizations. Despite the integration between Industry 4.0 and Lean Production is being researched in the recent years, the impacts that result from the implementation of new technologies in established lean practices is not clear. The purpose of this study that consists in a systematic literature review is assessing how these emerging disruptive technologies can enhance lean practices and analyse their impacts and benefits for organizations that are moving towards this new industrial paradigm.

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Digitale Zwillinge in der Bioprozesstechnik – Chancen und Möglichkeiten

Richter

Lange

Scheper

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Chemie Ingenieur Technik

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Herrn Prof. Dr. Christian Wandrey zum 80. Geburtstag gewidmet Die Digitalisierung von Prozessen ist eines der aktuell dominierenden Themen und Missionen sowohl in der industriellen Produktion als auch der wissenschaftlichen Forschung. In der Biotechnologie haben diese Bemu ¨hungen ein enormes Potenzial, um existierende Bioprozesse zu optimieren oder neue Bioprozesse fu ¨r zuku ¨nftige Herausforderungen zu entwickeln. In diesem U ¨bersichtsbeitrag wird der aktuelle Stand der Digitalisierung in der Bioprozesstechnik beleuchtet, die Begriffe digitaler Zwilling und digitaler Schatten charakterisiert sowie ein Ausblick auf zuku ¨nftige Lab 4.0-Konzepte gegeben.

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Lean Information and Communication Tool to Connect Shop and Top Floor in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Cited by 27 publications

References 10 publications

Current and future Industry 4.0 capabilities for information and knowledge sharing

Current and future Industry 4.0 capabilities for information and knowledge sharing

How Industry 4.0 can enhance Lean practices

Digitale Zwillinge in der Bioprozesstechnik – Chancen und Möglichkeiten

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