TY - JOUR
T1 - Defining and assessing industry 4.0 maturity levels – case of the defence sector
AU - Bibby, Lee
AU - Dehe, Benjamin
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Production Planning & Control on 12 Sep 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09537287.2018.1503355.
PY - 2018/9/10
Y1 - 2018/9/10
N2 - Firms do not currently fully appreciate the complex characteristics of Industry 4.0 and as a result are uncertain about what it represents for them. In this study, an assessment model is developed to measure the level of implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies, around three dimensions: ‘Factory of the Future’, ‘People and Culture’, and ‘Strategy’. The ‘Factory of the Future’ is the main dimension and is composed of eight attributes: Additive Manufacturing, Cloud, Manufacturing Execution System, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, Big Data, Sensors, e-Value Chains, and Autonomous Robots. The study uses a defence manufacturing firm to develop, test and validate the model and report on 12 partners. We concluded that the focal firm has an Industry 4.0 maturity level of 59.35, above the sector average of 55.58. This research contributes by empirically developing a model and providing an analysis of major firms in the Defence supply network
AB - Firms do not currently fully appreciate the complex characteristics of Industry 4.0 and as a result are uncertain about what it represents for them. In this study, an assessment model is developed to measure the level of implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies, around three dimensions: ‘Factory of the Future’, ‘People and Culture’, and ‘Strategy’. The ‘Factory of the Future’ is the main dimension and is composed of eight attributes: Additive Manufacturing, Cloud, Manufacturing Execution System, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, Big Data, Sensors, e-Value Chains, and Autonomous Robots. The study uses a defence manufacturing firm to develop, test and validate the model and report on 12 partners. We concluded that the focal firm has an Industry 4.0 maturity level of 59.35, above the sector average of 55.58. This research contributes by empirically developing a model and providing an analysis of major firms in the Defence supply network
KW - Industry 4.0
KW - Maturity assessment
KW - Defence sector
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053430524&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09537287.2018.1503355
DO - 10.1080/09537287.2018.1503355
M3 - Article
VL - 29
SP - 1030
EP - 1043
JO - Production Planning and Control
JF - Production Planning and Control
SN - 0953-7287
IS - 12
ER -
