The purpose of this article is to develop a conceptual approach for SMEs to balance digital
initiatives between digital maturity progression and operational performance benefits …

To stay competitive in a global market, companies strive to adjust their IT architectures to the
characteristics of Industrie 4.0. This means the adaptation of a data-driven manufacturing …

Maintaining pace with ongoing changes due to digitalization is challenging for
manufacturing companies. For successful implementation of digitalization, manufacturing …

The introduction of Industry 4.0 and with it factories of the future has become an important fo‐
cus of the world's industry over the past few years. The key technologies of Industry 4.0 can …

The fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0 has changed today's manufacturing scenario.
The need to make manufacturing systems agile, adaptive, resilient, and robust, due to the …

Industry 4.0 foresees benefits to companies and is supported by technologies such as Cyber-
Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), among others …

In times of global competition, German companies in the manufacturing industries are facing
huge challenges which are particularly posed by the struggle to compete with low-cost …

Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) is accompanied by a variety of technologies which offer great potential for
optimizing the manufacturing of electric motors. However, the application of I4. 0 …

Maturity models help organizations identify the processes of transformation and needs by
analyzing the current situation of production systems. Within the scope of Industry 4.0, in this …

The performance indicator, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), is one of the most
important ones for production control, as it merges information of equipment usage, process …