Abstract

Industry 4.0 has fused digitalisation with traditional industrial processes bridging the physical and virtual worlds and opening unimagined possibilities for 21st century business growth. Research is still evolving towards the development of frameworks linking Industry’s 4.0 enabling technologies to specific goals and to their impact on the manufacturers’ businesses. A systematic review of all peer-reviewed managerial research is performed to extract Industry’s 4.0 enabling technologies, barriers and goals. A framework linking technologies, barriers, and goals is then developed together with a web application based on its contents. The use of the framework is demonstrated through its application to two specific empirical case studies. The review shows that there are 9 classes of Industry’s 4.0 enabling technologies, whose different arrangements lead to the achievement of up to 15 business goals that can be thwarted by 21 barriers. The pursuit of these goals leads to three different destinations, i.e. three diverse digital transformations of the manufacturing firms. This paper provides a holistic framework that analyses the relationships among Industry’s 4.0 enabling technologies, barriers and goals. It appeals to managers who can use its contents along with the web application to derive recommendations and suggestions tailored to their Industry’s 4.0 journeys.

摘要

工业 4.0 将数字化与传统工业流程融为一体，连接了物理和虚拟世界，为 21 世纪的业务增长开辟了难以想象的可能性。研究仍在朝着将工业 4.0 使能技术与特定目标及其对制造商业务的影响联系起来的框架发展方向发展。对所有同行评审的管理研究进行系统审查，以提取工业 4.0 的支持技术、障碍和目标。然后根据其内容与 Web 应用程序一起开发一个链接技术、障碍和目标的框架。该框架的使用通过将其应用于两个具体的实证案例研究来证明。审查显示，工业 4.0 使能技术有 9 类，其不同的安排导致实现多达 15 个业务目标，而这些目标可能会受到 21 个障碍的阻碍。对这些目标的追求导致了三个不同的目标，即制造企业的三种不同的数字化转型。本文提供了一个整体框架，分析了工业 4.0 支持技术、障碍和目标之间的关系。它吸引了可以使用其内容以及 Web 应用程序来获得适合其行业 4.0 旅程的建议和建议的管理人员。本文提供了一个整体框架，分析了工业 4.0 支持技术、障碍和目标之间的关系。它吸引了可以使用其内容以及 Web 应用程序来获得适合其行业 4.0 旅程的建议和建议的管理人员。本文提供了一个整体框架，分析了工业 4.0 支持技术、障碍和目标之间的关系。它吸引了可以使用其内容以及 Web 应用程序来获得适合其行业 4.0 旅程的建议和建议的管理人员。