Industry 4.0 in SMEs Across the Globe Drivers, Barriers, and Opportunities

Taylor and Francis, 2022.

Under the general editorship: J. Muller, Kazantsev N.

The field of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) digitalization is becoming more mature and stands to significantly contribute to the full development of the agenda of Industry 4.0. Although national digitalization programs have their own goals, the common focus is on the role of SMEs in global value chains. Since SMEs are known to have challenges around Industry 4.0 implementation, this book integrates experiences from 14 countries worldwide.

Industry 4.0 in SMEs across the Globe: Drivers, Barriers, and Opportunities provides an in-depth overview of Industry 4.0 in SMEs, covering various national, historical, and geographical settings in nine European countries: Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Serbia, and the UK, complemented by five other countries from around the world: Brazil, China, India, Iran, and the U.S.

Each chapter describes the national digitalization program, along with barriers, drivers, and opportunities to implement Industry 4.0 in local SMEs. It subsumes the findings across these countries to identify common themes and clusters of drivers, barriers, and opportunities. The book concludes that there are common approaches of SMEs across the world to adopt Industry 4.0, which are to be understood to increase industrial competitiveness globally.

This book is a great resource for digitalization leaders and laggards, business consultants and researchers, as well as Ph.D. and master’s students from industrial engineering and manufacturing backgrounds. Policy makers can also use the contents to better understand the commonalities and differences of national digitalization programs and further support SMEs in their digitalization process.

Chapters

Industry 4.0 barriers, drivers and opportunities: An introduction to lessons learned from SMEs worldwide

Muller J., Kazantsev N., , in: Industry 4.0 in SMEs Across the Globe Drivers, Barriers, and Opportunities.: Taylor and Francis, 2022. Ch. 1 P. 1–3.

The concept of Industry 4.0 has sparked many advances in academia and practice, ten years after it was announced at the Hanover Fair as part of the German High-Tech Strategy. Today, it has gained worldwide recognition as such or via comparable terms around the world. While many technological solutions have been found, small and medium-sized ...

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Industry 4.0 experience in SMEs: An international overview of barriers, drivers and opportunities

Rubina R., Kazantsev N., Gilson A. O. et al., , in: Industry 4.0 in SMEs Across the Globe Drivers, Barriers, and Opportunities.: Taylor and Francis, 2022. Ch. 17 P. 229–239.

This book includes experiences of Industry 4.0 technology adoption among companies located in 14 countries around the world, including Brazil, China, Finland, France, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Serbia, the US, and the UK. Each chapter briefly describes the context and the digitalization policy adopted in the country, and highlights the barriers, drivers, ...

Added: February 7, 2022

Keywords: малый и средний бизнес, SME, industry 4.0, индустрия 4.0