Systematic Adoption of Industry 4.0 for SMEs

Requirements, Methods and Application Example

Feras El Sakka, Timo Busert ORCID Icon, Alexander Fay ORCID Icon
JournalIndustrie 4.0 Management
Issue Volume 35, 2019, Edition 3, Pages 25-29
Open Accesshttps://doi.org/10.30844/I40M_19-3_S25-29
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Abstract

In this contribution, a method for the implementation of Industry 4.0 projects in production and logistics for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) is described. This method takes various boundary conditions of SMEs into consideration and has been applied in different projects with SMEs within the “Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Hamburg” initiative. The method focuses on an integration of new technologies into existing systems and the connection of newly generated data with known information flows.

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