Review of Socio-technical Considerations to Ensure Successful Implementation of Industry 4.0

Davies, Robert; Coole, Tim; Smith, Alistair

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2017.07.256

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“…Hence, the digital industrial transformations [20], affect shop floor practitioners with traditionally low level of formal academic education. Even if they have both deep and long work-based experiences and knowledge [21,22], they need to be strengthened with new types of knowledge and learning that formal education can offer.…”

Section: Work-integrated Learning and Coproduction Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the Gap: A Collaborative Competence E-learning Model between University and Industry

Hattinger¹,

Eriksson²

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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This article departure from the effects that interorganizational collaboration brings for the participating partners, specifically from design-related activities of e-learning courses and co-production. The research focus is on critical factors for interorganizational collaborative e-learning and coproduction between university and industry. We describe the process of a six-year longitudinal collaborative action research project including six cases and three phases, initialization, implementation and dissemination. The analysis is conducted from a multi-stakeholder perspective; managers, teachers, and practitioners. Overall aim is to reach for a sustainable collaborative competence e-learning model (CCeM) that will increase industrial employees' competences. Main contribution is that co-production of knowledge entails three levels of activities among actors; to have insight into the purposes and practices of others, the capacity to transform the problems of a practice and together build common knowledge and finally the capacity of mutually co-produce knowledge acted upon in practice towards transformations in the workplace.

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Section: Work-integrated Learning and Coproduction Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the Gap: A Collaborative Competence E-learning Model between University and Industry

Hattinger¹,

Eriksson²

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Therefore, experts have urged the research community to investigate the environmental performance of smart factories (Davies, Coole, & Smith, 2017).…”

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“…Yet, to the best of our knowledge, there are only few qualitative statements concerning environmental performance of smart factories, which mainly focus on illustrating potential improvements in resource and energy efficiency (Waibel, Steenkamp, Moloko, & Oosthuizen, ; Wang et al., ). Therefore, experts have urged the research community to investigate the environmental performance of smart factories (Davies, Coole, & Smith, ).…”

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Can smart factories bring environmental benefits to their products?: A case study of household refrigerators

Zhang

Guo

2019

J of Industrial Ecology

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Smart factories have been widely adopted as a new manufacturing paradigm, in which the state‐of‐the‐art technologies are introduced to improve relevant processes. Yet, whether smart factories affect the environmental performance remains unknown. In this article, we examine the environmental performance of a smart refrigerator factory by comparing the environmental impacts of its product to a similar model that is produced in a traditional fashion. This article quantifies and verifies the theoretically predicted impacts of this smart factory on the individual processes. Though the overall differences in the two models are quite minor, we find that this smart factory can notably reduce the values of most impact categories associated with the parts and refrigerator production; the reduction in the value of climate change is 33%. Owing to higher material efficiency—raw material savings in this smart factory contributes to the greatest reductions in most categorized impacts—the contribution to the reduction of climate change is 39%. Yet, all categorized impacts of procurement and delivery are increased due to product personalization and direct delivery. The results of sensitivity analysis show that promoting product modularity, adopting clean energy such as wind power can further improve the environmental performance of the selected refrigerator. The introduction of auxiliary equipment and systems slightly increases the value of each category; yet their impacts are negligible compared to their benefits as facilitating production efficiency. Based on the quantitative results, recommendations are given to improve the environmental performance of smart factory, including optimizing current strategies and promoting horizontal and end‐to‐end integration.

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“…We believe that viewing the DT through a socio-technical lens is a suitable approach. Prior research has indicated that the socio-technical features of I4.0, as well as the sociotechnical impact of I4.0, require further exploration [10]. This also applies to the DT as an approach for realizing the vision of I4.0 [48].…”

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The Digital Twin – Birth of an Integrated System in the Digital Age

Wache

Dinter

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Today we live in a time where new technologies are developing rapidly. Digitalization and automation are finding their way into various industrial sectors, especially in the area of Industry 4.0. As in previous digitalization efforts in the manufacturing sector, it can be observed that the discourse is strongly concentrated on technological themes, neglecting the overall integration of technologies into the organization. In this paper, we conduct a literature review on the concept of a digital twin, i.e. a simulation-oriented closed loop system consisting of physical and digital components. We map the identified themes to the elements of a socio-technical system to show which issues in the discourse are underrepresented from a managerial point of view in order to provide indications for a more holistic discourse.

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Review of Socio-technical Considerations to Ensure Successful Implementation of Industry 4.0

Cited by 168 publications

References 16 publications

Mind the Gap: A Collaborative Competence E-learning Model between University and Industry

Mind the Gap: A Collaborative Competence E-learning Model between University and Industry

Can smart factories bring environmental benefits to their products?: A case study of household refrigerators

The Digital Twin – Birth of an Integrated System in the Digital Age

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