BARRIERS FROM A SOCIO-TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVE TO IMPLEMENT DIGITALISATION IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING PROCESSES - A LITERATURE REVIEW
Paper in proceeding, 2023

With the paradigm shift towards Industry 4.0 and digitalisation, manufacturing engineers face several unexplored challenges; in the products for which they are designing production, in the equipment they are designing to realise production systems and in the digitalisation impact on engineering processes. Today's manufacturing system design processes are still based on traditional engineering methods and have difficulties to cope with increased complexity. The aim of this systematic literature review is to explore drivers and barriers to implement digitalisation in engineering processes from a socio-technical perspective. The identified general barriers were cyber security, lack of competence, lack of standards, large investments and resistance to change. For the engineering processes the main drivers were increased product complexity, servitisation, data driven design and engineering productivity, with the main barriers culture, excess amount of data, integration of tools. cyber security and data quality. The study shows the complexity of the challenge, and that it is not only the technology that is the top barrier. Further research is recommended to develop approaches of successful engineering digitalisation implementations.

Manufacturing engineering digitalization

Industrial design

Design methods

Industry 4.0

Human behaviour in design

Author

Malin Hane Hagström

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Dag Henrik Bergsjö

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Henrik Wahrén

Student at Chalmers

Proceedings of the Design Society

2732527X (eISSN)

Vol. 3 737-745

24th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2023
Bordeaux, France,

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Business Administration

Information Systemes, Social aspects

Areas of Advance

Production

DOI

10.1017/pds.2023.74

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