Challenges of Industry 4.0 in SME businessesShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: 2020 3rd International Symposium on Small-scale Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (SIMS), IEEE, 2020Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper problematizes and discuss a change towards new business models in order to highlight some basic challenges of digital transformation needed for Industry 4.0. A particular effort is to discuss if SMEs may have sufficient means to capitalize on such a new paradigm. As an approach to enable problematization and discussion, the paper presents concepts and standpoints that are related to the fourth industrial revolution. For example, the idea of new business models is a concept taken for granted, and is not sufficiently contextualized into digital transformation and Industry 4.0. The discussion sheds some light on the benefit of SMEs' flexibility, while simultaneously it finds mindsets challenges related to change and transformation as critical.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2020.
Series
International Symposium on Small-scale Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (SIMS)
Keywords [en]
agile, innovation, value chain, value proposition, digital service innovation
National Category
Information Systems, Social aspects
Research subject
Information systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-80266DOI: 10.1109/SIMS49386.2020.9121542Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85087496229OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-80266DiVA, id: diva2:1455364
Conference
2020 3rd International Symposium on Small-scale Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (SIMS), 10-12 June, 2020,Gjøvik, Norway
Note
ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-7281-6419-9, 978-1-7281-6420-5
2020-07-232020-07-232023-09-05Bibliographically approved