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Ready for Industrie 4.0?

Ready for Industrie 4.0?

Prerequisites for successful digitalization in production
Günther Schuh ORCID Icon, Andreas Gützlaff, Matthias Schmidhuber, Judith Fulterer, Max-Ferdinand Stroh, Jan Hicking
Despite a strong media presence and proven potential benefits, Industrie 4.0 is not yet established in many companies. Industry 4.0 projects often remain in a prototype status and do not deliver long-term added value. The solution is an integrated digital system landscape consisting of a connected, digital infrastructure and a business organization oriented towards Industrie 4.0. Through a four-step approach, this paper presents the foundations that need to be created to enable scalable solutions and realize long-term benefits.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 38 | 2022 | Edition 1 | Pages 61-65
Requirements for the Use of Digitization and AI

Requirements for the Use of Digitization and AI

Applications for increasing energy efficiency
Dennis Bode, Henry Ekwaro-Osire, Klaus-Dieter Thoben ORCID Icon
Innovative digital and AI solutions for more energy-efficient production can decisively contribute to the environmental impact and competitiveness of companies, especially in the manufacturing industry. Requirements for the functionality and implementation of these solutions are complex and diverse; multiple stakeholders need to be addressed when eliciting requirements and various technology and business aspects have to be considered. This article presents a procedure for requirements elicitation for energy efficiency digitalization and AI projects.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 38 | 2022 | Edition 1 | Pages 17-22 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_22-1_17-22
Biomimetics in Holistic Production Systems

Biomimetics in Holistic Production Systems

Biomimetic Methods to Support Process Standardization in SMEs
Annika Lange ORCID Icon, Patrick Gering, Nicole Oertwig ORCID Icon, Thomas Knothe ORCID Icon
Holistic production systems (HPS) do not only produce positive effects in large companies - they also have an impact on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), such as improved adherence to delivery dates. However, HPS cannot be copied from large companies to SMEs due to different initial situations and circumstances. The introduction of HPS means a high effort for SMEs. In this paper, an approach is presented on how a bionic principle can make HPS less costly and at the same time more effective for SMEs.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 38 | 2022 | Edition 1 | Pages 57-60
Circular Economy – Chance for Innovation

Circular Economy - Chance for Innovation

Tobias Berndt, Claus Lang-Koetz, Silvia Rummel
Circular Economy is considered one of the most promising concepts on the way to a more sustainable economy. Expectations of a responsible corporate orientation are rising: This is shown by a recent ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court, which demands that Germany must be more ambitious in its climate goals [1]. The EU Green Deal envisages climate neutrality by 2050 and the “Circular Economy Action Plan” calls for more effective use of resources and reserves [2]. This article describes a method that companies can use to develop ideas for circular business models.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 38 | 2022 | Edition 1 | Pages 33-36 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_22-1_33-36
Digital Transformation in International Conglomerates

Digital Transformation in International Conglomerates

Identification of Best Practice Solutions Using the Example of MANN+HUMMEL
Elena Haberstock, Peter Preuss
The article addresses the digital transformation in international corporations. Using the example of the MANN+HUMMEL group, it will be shown how the digital maturity level can be measured in a group with several production locations and how the transformation process can be simplified and accelerated by identifying and using group-wide best practice solutions.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 38 | 2022 | Edition 1 | Pages 53-56
Assistance Systems Through Natural Language Processing

Assistance Systems Through Natural Language Processing

Implementation strategies for the shop floor
Marvin Müller, Joachim Metternich
The future of shop floor management (SFM) lies in its digitization. The visualization of key performance indicators is already supported by various providers or set up by companies themselves to save time. But particularly valuable in SFM is the sustainable problem solving, which contains the knowledge of the employees in text. Therefore, approaches from Natural Language Processing (NLP) are applied to these text data to realize assistance functions. This article provides situation-specific implementation strategies.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 37 | 2021 | Edition 6 | Pages 11-14 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_21-6_S11-14
Industry 5.0

Industry 5.0

The European Commission on the trail of the next industrial revolution?
David Bendig, Kevin Lau, Julian Schulte, Stefan Endriß
Managers are still facing significant challenges in implementing Industry 4.0 technologies and many companies have not gone beyond their initial Industry 4.0 lighthouse project to date. In the midst of this ongoing transformation, the European Commission published a white paper in January 2021 dealing with the “Industry 5.0 concept”. This paper investigates the term “Industry 5.0” with regard to the contribution of the European Commission and illustrates the connection with current Industry 4.0 initiatives.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 37 | 2021 | Edition 6 | Pages 20-22 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_21-6_S20-22
Socio-Technical Learning System at the Workplace

Socio-Technical Learning System at the Workplace

Enhancement of Employee Competence through Socio-Technical Assistance Systems for Flexible Use at the Workplace
Holger Dander ORCID Icon, Patrick Adler, Gerd Witt
The complexity of manual activities in different areas of a company is increasing due to smaller batch sizes, higher product variants and shorter product life cycles. The balanced provision of information ensures shorter training times, higher acceptance among employees and can be used directly at the workplace. For system implementation, organizational factors must also be considered in accordance of a socio-technical system design.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 37 | 2021 | Edition 6 | Pages 47-51 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_21-6_S47-51
Flexible Reference Model for Planning and Optimization

Flexible Reference Model for Planning and Optimization

Generierung digitaler Fabrikmodelle mit dem digitalen Zwilling
Michael Schlecht, Jürgen Köbler, Roland de Guio
The digital twin has moved into the focus of manufacturing companies and has been identified by Gartner as a key technology [1]. In the automotive industry, VW uses the digital twin in the cloud to plan, control and optimize production at all 122 locations in the future [2]. The digital twin is also the basis and an integral part of new, digital business models and the digitization of production companies. This article gives an overview of the current state of the art and describes a flexible reference model for planning and optimizing production systems based on the digital twin. The focus is on the one hand on the optimization of static layouts and material flows and on the other hand on the optimization of dynamic material flows and the temporal organization of processes.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 37 | 2021 | Edition 5 | Pages 53-56 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_21-5_S53-56
Feasibility Analysis of Hybrid Value Creation − An Approach for Analysing the Feasibility of Hybrid Value Creation Business Models in the Context of SMEs

Feasibility Analysis of Hybrid Value Creation − An Approach for Analysing the Feasibility of Hybrid Value Creation Business Models in the Context of SMEs

Ein Ansatz für die Analyse der Machbarkeit von Geschäfts-modellen hybrider Wertschöpfung im Kontext von KMU
Christian Köhler, Tobias Mahl
The diffusion of networked, intelligent products and production goods within the framework of Industry 4.0 is not only changing production, but is also causing the emergence of new forms of value creation and new types of business models that offer products and services in an integrated manner. This trend is called hybrid value creation and aims to offer customers holistic and individual solutions. The development of such business models requires a multi-criterial feasibility study. This paper deals with the specifics of the feasibility study of hybrid value creation business models.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 37 | 2021 | Edition 5 | Pages 16-20 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_21-5_S16-20
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