small and medium sized enterprises (SME)

Systematic Adoption of Industry 4.0 for SMEs

Systematic Adoption of Industry 4.0 for SMEs

Requirements, Methods and Application Example
Feras El Sakka, Timo Busert ORCID Icon, Alexander Fay ORCID Icon
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.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 35 | 2019 | Edition 3 | Pages 25-29 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_19-3_S25-29
It Could Be Better!

It Could Be Better!

Recognizing and supporting the development potential from SME
Sylvie Gavirey, Bernd Scholz-Reiter ORCID Icon
Organizational learning offers a good possibility for enterprises to compete with the dynamics of the market. Under certain conditions, process integrated education not only leads to process optimization in the firms, but also to the beginning of organizational learning. This is of great importance particularly to small and medium sized enterprises, since they normally lack appropriate structures.
Industrie Management | Volume 23 | 2007 | Edition 2 | Pages 11-15
Decentralised Control Systems in Production

Decentralised Control Systems in Production

Sylvie Gavirey, Bernd Scholz-Reiter ORCID Icon
Incentives for self control in enterprises can only be successful when integrated by coordination. For this, harmonious concepts and “new” mechanisms of cooperation have to be developed. That topic is discussed in this article.
Industrie Management | Volume 22 | 2006 | Edition 1 | Pages 11-14