Highlights•European SMEs face difficulties to implement Industry 4.0 strategies.•Machine
Tool sector provides high tech products and services to the digital industry.•Machine Tool …

Over the last five years, Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) has gained a lot of attention from industry leaders,
policymakers, and government officials worldwide. In an era where new concepts and …

Purpose This paper aims to show that current Industry 4.0 maturity models primarily focus on
manufacturing processes. Until now, research has been lacking with regard to outbound …

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) represent systems which integrate physical units and
processes with computational entities over Internet and allow ubiquitous access of …

Maturity models (MMs) enable users to identify the need for change and to derive the
necessary measures to accompany the change process. Existing literature reviews indicate …

Manufacturing enterprises' business operations are expected to be significantly transformed
by Industry 4.0 technologies. However, due to a lack of solid assessment framework and …

Purpose Industry 4.0 has offered significant potential for manufacturing firms to alter and
rethink their business models, production processes, strategies and objectives …

Digital maturity index for accounting firms | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies
Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with us Advanced search Digital maturity index for …

The fast-growing market for the adoption of IoT technologies poses serious challenges for
companies providing IoT solutions. These challenges require constant technological and …

Smart services are a combination of physical and digital services that are based on the data
of a physical product. As a result, smart services are integrated product-service systems with …