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

The field of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) digitalization is becoming more mature and has a significant contribution to fully develop 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 experience 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 further countries from around the world: Brazil, China, India, Iran, and the US. 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. Policymakers can also use the contents to better understand commonalities and differences of national digitalization programs and further support SMEs in their digitalization process.

Preface

Chapter 1 : Industry 4.0 Barriers, Drivers and Opportunities : An Introduction to Lessons Learned From SMEsWorldwide
Chapter 2 : Industry 4.0 Towards a Circular Economy - Why Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Must be Integrated Better within Supply Chains
Chapter 3 : Industry 4.0 in Finland : Towards Twin Transition
Chapter 4 : Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and The Industry 4.0 Transformation in France
Chapter 5 : The Case of Industry 4.0 with Hungarian Smes
Chapter 6 : The Adoption of Industry 4.0 Technologies : The Case of Italian Manufacturing SMEs
Chapter 7 : Digitalization and The Future of Production : The Case of Baltic States’ Manufacturing SMEs
Chapter 8 : Industry 4.0 in Poland from a Perspective of SMEs
Chapter 9 : Industry 4.0 – Present or Future in Serbia
Chapter 10 : The Birthplace of The 1st Industrial Revolution Remains Fertile Ground for SMEs in Its 4th Incarnation
Chapter 11 : Industry 4.0 in Brazil
Chapter 12 : Cloud-Based SMART Manufacturing in China
Chapter 13 : Industry 4.0 and SMEs : An Indian Perspective
Chapter 14 : Industry 4.0 and SME Development : The Case of a Middle Eastern Country
Chapter 15 : Industry 4.0 in Russia : Digital Transformation of Economic Sectors
Chapter 16 : Status, Opportunities, and Barriers in Implementing Industry 4.0 in The U.S
Chapter 17 : Industry 4.0 Experience in SMEs : An International Overview of Barriers, Drivers and Opportunities

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