productivity management

Manufacturing companies, particularly small and medium-sized ones, should be supported in their Digital Transformation (Industry 4.0) and its implementation of necessary transformation measures. This article introduces a study on models and self-assessments for industry 4.0 maturity level analyses, together with a regulation framework for productivity management, which both helping companies to identify the potential that can be realised with Industry 4.0 considering their current economic activities and business options.

As the core of the added value the production meets new challenges. Against the background of new trends and changing market mechanism an adjustment of existing production structures is crucial. New sources for earning money can be found in the combination of different leverages which result finally in increasing the economic value added. The objective is to find a combination of above-average performance and cost leadership and to realize these in an integrated production concept. In these redesigned production systems above-average performance is based on the overall connection between methods, people and technologies over the whole supply chain.