A tool for holistic assessment of digitalization capabilities in manufacturing SMEs
Paper in proceeding, 2020

In a constantly evolving global market, manufacturing companies need to be flexible and adaptive to survive. Digital twins of production systems have been proposed as one part of the solution, however this comes with multiple challenges. Manufacturing SMEs have limited resources and need to direct their efforts in this area wisely. This paper presents a tool for holistic assessment of an SME manufacturer's level of digitalization, in order to visualize current gaps and guide digitalization efforts over a production system's life cycle. The tool was empirically developed together with Manufacturing SMEs and has strengthened their digitalization awareness and capabilities.

SME

Digitalization

Smart manufacturing

Industry 4.0

Digitalization capabilities

Author

Britta Ottesjö

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Sandra Nyström

Daniel Nåfors

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Jonatan Berglund

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Björn Johansson

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Per Gullander

Swerea

Procedia CIRP

22128271 (eISSN)

Vol. 93 676-681

53rd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CMS 2020
Chicago, USA,

Digital tvilling för utveckling och installation av produktionssystem - DIP

VINNOVA (2018-02698), 2018-11-01 -- 2021-10-31.

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Other Mechanical Engineering

Environmental Management

DOI

10.1016/j.procir.2020.03.078

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1/14/2021