Internet of Things e Industria 4.0. Un case study di successo di digital manufacturing

Journal title MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Author/s Pier Luigi Marchini, Alice Medioli, Laura Belli, Luca Davoli
Publishing Year 2019 Issue 2019/3 Language English
Pages 24 P. 11-34 File size 256 KB
DOI 10.3280/MACO2019-003002
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The value creation through production is currently shaped by Industry 4.0, whose paradigm aims at improving industry management and business processes. Through a case study, this research describes the renovation steps, in a manufac-turing environment. The research aims to study how the introduction of digital in-novation helps in making more efficient and time saving production (RQ1), as well as in increasing product quality, enabling on time detection of non-conformity (RQ2). At theoretical level, the research aims to close the gap between the Internet of Things (IoT) application and real-word aspects, analyzing how an industry 4.0 transformation could be modelled and implemented. At managerial level, the study shows how IoT technologies and process digitalization should provide ad-vantages in terms of cost reduction, product quality control, allowing continuous collection of heterogeneous data useful to optimize the production further.

Keywords: Industry 4.0; Business process digitalization; Smart Factory; Internet of Things; Digital Manufacturing

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Pier Luigi Marchini, Alice Medioli, Laura Belli, Luca Davoli, Internet of Things e Industria 4.0. Un case study di successo di digital manufacturing in "MANAGEMENT CONTROL" 3/2019, pp 11-34, DOI: 10.3280/MACO2019-003002