Determinants of information and digital technology implementation for smart manufacturing

TLDR

This study aims to identify and analyse factors that determine the implementation of Information and Digital Technologies (IDT) of smart manufacturing. By performing a state‑of‑the‑art literature review, consulting academia and industry experts, and applying interpretive structural modelling, the study identified eleven enabling factors and mapped their contextual interrelationships. The findings revealed that perceived benefits and management support are key driver determinants, while operations technology maturity and cybersecurity maturity are dependent determinants, and the study mapped complex precedence relationships among these factors to aid academics, industry, and policymakers in understanding smart manufacturing transformation.

Abstract

This study aims to identify and analyse factors that determine the implementation of Information and Digital Technologies (IDT) of smart manufacturing. By performing a state-of-the-art and content-driven review of literature, consulting a group of experts from academia and industry, and implementing interpretive structural modelling methodology, the study identified eleven enabling factors and mapped the contextual interrelationships among them. The study further explained the complex precedence relationships that exist among determinants of smart manufacturing IDT adoption. Results showed that perceived benefits and management support are the two driver determinants that act as stepping-stones in the implementation of smart manufacturing IDT. Operations technology maturity and cybersecurity maturity were found to be the dependent determinants of smart manufacturing IDT implementation and highly driven by the linkage and driver determinates. The findings are expected to assist academicians, industrialists, and the policymakers with achieving a detailed understanding of smart manufacturing transformation processes, and conditions that facilitate the manufacturing digitalisation in the Industry 4.0 era.