Methodology for Digital Transformation with Internet of Things and Cloud Computing: A Practical Guideline for Innovation in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Liu, Yu; Ni, Zhongjun; Karlsson, Magnus; Gong, Shaofang

doi:10.3390/s21165355

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“…Essentially, whereas digitization does not change the business in itself, digitalization does (Gobble, 2018). Two fundamental digital technologies which are cornerstones of digitalization are cloud solutions and industrial Internet of things (IIoT) (Frank et al, 2019;Koh et al, 2019;Liu et al, 2021).…”

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Digitalization in lean manufacturing firms: a cumulative capability development perspective

Powell,

Laubengaier,

Tortorella

et al. 2024

IJOPM

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the digitalization of operational processes and activities in lean manufacturing firms and explore the associated learning implications through the lens of cumulative capability theory.Design/methodology/approachAdopting a multiple-case design, we examine four cases of digitalization initiatives within lean manufacturing firms. We collected data through semi-structured interviews and direct observations during site visits.FindingsThe study uncovers the development of learning capabilities as a result of integrating lean and digitalization. We find that digitalization in lean manufacturing firms contributes to the development of both routinized and evolutionary learning capabilities in a cumulative fashion.Originality/valueThe study adds nuance to the limited theoretical understanding of the integration of lean and digitalization by showing how it cumulatively develops the learning capabilities of lean manufacturing firms. As such, the study supports the robustness of cumulative capability theory. We further contribute to research by offering empirical support for the cumulative nature of learning.

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Section: Conceptual Background 21 Lean and Digitalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitalization in lean manufacturing firms: a cumulative capability development perspective

Powell,

Laubengaier,

Tortorella

et al. 2024

IJOPM

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“…Digital transformation aims to integrate information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve an entity by causing considerable changes to its attributes [20]. IoT and cloud computing are two representative technologies that significantly promote digital transformation [21]. The integration of IoT and cloud computing could benefit from both the data gathering capability of IoT and the data storage and processing capability of cloud computing [22].…”

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Enabling Preventive Conservation of Historic Buildings Through Cloud-Based Digital Twins: A Case Study in the City Theatre, Norrköping

Ni¹,

Liu²,

Karlsson³

et al. 2022

IEEE Access

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Historic buildings require good maintenance to sustain their function and preserve embodied heritage values. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of digitalization techniques in improving maintenance and managing threats to historic buildings. However, there still lacks a solution that can consistently organize data collected from historic buildings to reveal operating conditions of historic buildings in real-time and to facilitate various data analytics and simulations. This study aims to provide such a solution to help achieve preventive conservation. The proposed solution integrates Internet of Things and ontology to create digital twins of historic buildings. Internet of Things enables revealing the latest status of historic buildings, while ontology provides a consistent data schema for representing historic buildings. This study also gives a reference implementation by using public cloud services and open-source software libraries, which make it easier to be reused in other historic buildings. To verify the feasibility of the solution, we conducted a case study in the City Theatre, Norrköping, Sweden. The obtained results demonstrate the advantages of digital twins in providing maintenance knowledge and identifying potential risks caused by fluctuations of relative humidity.

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“…In light of the aforementioned requirements of the plant factory, in this section, we propose a preliminary architecture as a start point for vertical farming, which is based on our previous accumulated research results and digital transformation practice in the vertical plant wall industry [ 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ]. Figure 2 depicts the infrastructures in an indoor green room where a vertical plant wall is deployed with monitoring and growth systems, which reflects the production field of a plant factory.…”

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Plant Factory: A New Playground of Industrial Communication and Computing

Liu

Mousavi²,

Pang

et al. 2021

Sensors

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Plant Factory is a newly emerging industry aiming at transforming crop production to an unprecedented model by leveraging industrial automation and informatics. However, today’s plant factory and vertical farming industry are still in a primitive phase, and existing industrial cyber-physical systems are not optimal for a plant factory due to diverse application requirements on communication, computing and artificial intelligence. In this paper, we review use cases and requirements for future plant factories, and then dedicate an architecture that incorporates the communication and computing domains to plant factories with a preliminary proof-of-concept, which has been validated by both academic and industrial practices. We also call for a holistic co-design methodology that crosses the boundaries of communication, computing and artificial intelligence disciplines to guarantee the completeness of solution design and to speed up engineering implementation of plant factories and other industries sharing the same demands.

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Methodology for Digital Transformation with Internet of Things and Cloud Computing: A Practical Guideline for Innovation in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Cited by 29 publications

References 29 publications

Digitalization in lean manufacturing firms: a cumulative capability development perspective

Digitalization in lean manufacturing firms: a cumulative capability development perspective

Enabling Preventive Conservation of Historic Buildings Through Cloud-Based Digital Twins: A Case Study in the City Theatre, Norrköping

Plant Factory: A New Playground of Industrial Communication and Computing

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