The role of intelligent manufacturing systems in the implementation of Industry 4.0 by small and medium enterprises in developing countries

Atieh, Anas M.; Cooke, Kavian O.; Osiyevskyy, Oleksiy

doi:10.1002/eng2.12578

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“…Manufacturers face several difficulties, including a shortage of innovative tools, financing, administration visualization, and expert labor [25]. Similar knowledge gaps and communication problems prevent SMEs in developing nations from adopting intelligent manufacturing and digitization [26]. Stakeholder collaboration and knowledge sharing are essential for implementation success [18,27].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Integrating Supply Chain Partners through Implementing Industry 4.0 Technologies to Enhance Competitiveness

2024

jjmie

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Manufacturing companies must embrace state-of-the-art technologies to keep up with the rapid advancements in technology and innovation. This study examines how integrating supply chain partners in implementing technologies like I4.0 can improve Competitiveness. The research employed a survey-based approach, utilizing a well-constructed semi-structured questionnaire. One hundred and twenty-five responses were obtained from Bangladesh's Readymade Garments Sector. Based on previous literature and the responses from the respondents, a conceptual model was formulated, which generated six hypotheses. The model and the hypotheses are tested and validated through Structural Equation Modeling. Smart PLS 4.0 was employed for data analysis. The study's findings support all the proposed hypotheses, confirming the validity of the developed model. The effective and efficient implementation of cutting-edge technologies through linking with the supply network partners would build Competitiveness.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Integrating Supply Chain Partners through Implementing Industry 4.0 Technologies to Enhance Competitiveness

2024

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“…SMEs must adopt various I4.0-enabling technologies despite the financial crisis. Integrating the CPS as a manufacturing system can help SMEs improve their communication system in the whole SC by bringing customers into the production process [77].…”

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Sustainable Manufacturing Supply Chain Performance Enhancement through Technology Utilization and Process Innovation in Industry 4.0: A SEM-PLS Approach

Qureshi,

Mewada,

Kaur

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The fourth industrial revolution brought a paradigm shift in the present manufacturing system and its supply chain management (SCM). The evolution of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) brought several disruptive technologies like cloud computing (CC), blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical systems (CPS), etc. These disruptive technologies have changed the face of the modern manufacturing system and its manufacturing supply chain (SC). Several changes in manufacturing in terms of lead time, cost reduction, agility, flexibility, and response to market sensitivity are seen in almost all types of manufacturing. I4.0’s disruptive technologies influence lean SC, agile SC, leagile SC, and green SC. The current study examines how I4.0 technologies affect society on such supply chains (SCs), which leads to enhanced performance of the manufacturing SC. The effect of process innovation (PI) resulting from I4.0 innovations is also investigated. SEM-PLS-based modeling is constructed based on 195 responses received from manufacturing enterprises implementing various SC practices in managing their manufacturing SCs. The findings demonstrate a favorable correlation between I4.0 technology and the enhancement of various SCs. The result also revealed that there is a positive impact of I4.0 technologies on PI, which leads to manufacturing SC performance improvements.

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“…These technologies have emerged as highly productive technologies to attain sustainable business performance. The key objective of I4TEs is to develop a highly integrated, real-time responsive, and efficient manufacturing system [36]. These technologies enabled backward and forwarded integration in the value chain.…”

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Sustainable Performance through Digital Supply Chains in Industry 4.0 Era: Amidst the Pandemic Experience

Joshi

Sharma

2022

Sustainability

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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic disruption, industry 4.0 technologies (I4TEs) and digital supply chains (DSCs) are reinforcing businesses to gain economic stability and agility to enrich their sustainable performance (S.P.). Survey methods have been deployed based on the constructs obtained from the literature. Data collection through a survey resulted in 202 valid responses. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirms the constructs and the mediating effect of the DSCs through partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The study is among the few studies that examine the I4TE impact on DSCs and S.P. The results show that industry 4.0 technologies enhance the sustainable performance of firms. Results also show a complete mediation of DSCs on the inter-relationship between I4TEs and S.P. Those DSCs with I4TE inclusion can transform an organization’s strategic decision-making. For the authors, this study is the first of its kind. Although some of the literature explored different aspects of the concept of industry 4.0 and digitalizing supply chains, studies have yet to specifically evaluate the potential impacts of digital supply chains on sustainable performance. The novelty of DSCs is their support of firms in improving their preparedness, agility, and transparency to strengthen their sustainable performance. These DSCs will provide agile, collaboration, responsiveness, end-to-end visibility, and resilient supply chains to diminish supply risk and enrich preparedness and responsiveness to recuperate quickly from uncertainty amidst the pandemic. The study will help managers re-designing their strategic planning, resulting in new cost reduction and resilience models for supply chains. The study calls for firms to employ multiple DSCs once they have set clear strategic priorities. The overall findings of the work fill the literature gaps of studies in the digitalization of supply chains.

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The role of intelligent manufacturing systems in the implementation of Industry 4.0 by small and medium enterprises in developing countries

Cited by 27 publications

References 102 publications

Integrating Supply Chain Partners through Implementing Industry 4.0 Technologies to Enhance Competitiveness

Integrating Supply Chain Partners through Implementing Industry 4.0 Technologies to Enhance Competitiveness

Sustainable Manufacturing Supply Chain Performance Enhancement through Technology Utilization and Process Innovation in Industry 4.0: A SEM-PLS Approach

Sustainable Performance through Digital Supply Chains in Industry 4.0 Era: Amidst the Pandemic Experience

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