The field of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) digitalization is becoming more mature and stands to significantly contribute to the full development of the agenda of Industry 4.0. Although national digitalization programs have their own goals, the common focus is on the role of SMEs in global value chains. Since SMEs are known to have challenges around Industry 4.0 implementation, this book integrates experiences from 14 countries worldwide.
Industry 4.0 in SMEs across the Globe: Drivers, Barriers, and Opportunities provides an in-depth overview of Industry 4.0 in SMEs, covering various national, historical, and geographical settings in nine European countries: Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Serbia, and the UK, complemented by five other countries from around the world: Brazil, China, India, Iran, and the U.S.
Each chapter describes the national digitalization program, along with barriers, drivers, and opportunities to implement Industry 4.0 in local SMEs. It subsumes the findings across these countries to identify common themes and clusters of drivers, barriers, and opportunities. The book concludes that there are common approaches of SMEs across the world to adopt Industry 4.0, which are to be understood to increase industrial competitiveness globally.
This book is a great resource for digitalization leaders and laggards, business consultants and researchers, as well as Ph.D. and masters students from industrial engineering and manufacturing backgrounds. Policy makers can also use the contents to better understand the commonalities and differences of national digitalization programs and further support SMEs in their digitalization process.
1. Industry 4.0 barriers, drivers and opportunities: An introduction to lessons learned from SMEs worldwide.
Julian M.Müller , Nikolai Kazantsev
2. Industry 4.0 towards a Circular Economy - Why Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises must be integrated better within Supply Chains.
Petra Unterberger Julian M. Müller
3. Industry 4.0 in Finland: Towards Twin Transition.
Iqra Khan, Osmo Kauppila, Jukka Majava, Marko Jurmu, Jan Olaf Blech, Elina Annanperä, Marko Jurvansuu, Susanna Pirttikangas
4. Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Industry 4.0 Transformation in France.
Elena Kornyshova, Judith Barrios
5. The Case of Industry 4.0 with Hungarian SMEs.
Robert Marciniak, Peter Moricz and Krisztina Demeter
6. The adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies: the case of Italian manufacturing SMEs.
Rubina Romanello, Maria Chiarvesio
7. Digitalization and the Future of Production: The Case of Baltic States Manufacturing SMEs.
Mantas Vilkas, Morteza Ghobakhloo, Andrius Grybauskas
8. Industry 4.0 in Poland from a perspective of SMEs.
Anna Michna, Jan Kazmierczak
9. Industry 4.0 - Present or future in Serbia.
Zoran Vitorovic
10. The birthplace of the 1st industrial revolution remains fertile ground for SMEs in its 4th incarnation.
Shaden Jaradat
11. Industry 4.0 in Brazil.
Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira, Marcelo Gonçalves Trentin, Dalmarino Setti, Jose Donizetti de Lima
12. Cloud-Based SMART Manufacturing in China.
YC Chau, Vincent WC Fung
13. Industry 4.0 and SMEs: An Indian Perspective.
Debabrata Das, Sankhadip Kumar, Amit Somwanshi
14. Industry 4.0 and SME development: The Case of a Middle Eastern Country.
Morteza Ghobakhloo, Masood Fathi, Parisa Maroufkhani
15. Industry 4.0 in Russia: Digital transformation of economic sectors.
Pavel Anatolyevich Drogovoz, Nataliya Aleksandrovna Kashevarova, Vladimir Alekseevich Dadonov, Tatyana Georgievna Sadovskaya, Maksim Konstantinovich Trusevich
16. Status, Opportunities, and Barriers in Implementing Industry 4.0 in the U.S.
Ling Li, Yang Lu
17. Industry 4.0 experience in SMEs: An international overview of barriers, drivers and opportunities.
Rubina Romanello, Nikolai Kazantsev, Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira, Julian M. Müller
