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The industrial management of SMEs in the era of Industry 4.0

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Moeuf, Alexandre, Pellerin, Robert, Lamouri, Samir, Tamayo-Giraldo, Simon, Barbaray, Rodolphe·2018·International Journal of Production Research

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Industry 4.0 provides new paradigms for the industrial management of SMEs. Supported by a growing number of new technologies, this concept appears more flexible and less expensive than traditional enterprise information systems such as ERP and MES. However, SMEs find themselves ill-equipped to face these new possibilities regarding their production planning and control functions. This paper presents a literature review of existing applied research covering different Industry 4.0 issues with regard to SMEs. Papers are classified according to a new framework which allows identification of the targeted performance objectives, the required managerial capacities and the selected group of technologies for each selected case. Our results show that SMEs do not exploit all the resources for implementing Industry 4.0 and often limit themselves to the adoption of Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things. Likewise, SMEs seem to have adopted Industry 4.0 concepts only for monitoring industrial processes and there is still absence of real applications in the field of production planning. Finally, our literature review shows that reported Industry 4.0 projects in SMEs remained cost-driven initiatives and there in still no evidence of real business model transformation at this time.

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Authors
Moeuf, A., Pellerin, R., Lamouri, S., Tamayo-Giraldo, S., & Barbaray, R.
Affiliations
  • Laboratoire Quartz (FR)
  • Polytechnique Montréal (CA)
  • LAMIH CNRS, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Paris, France
  • CAOR, Mines ParisTech, Paris, France
  • Exxelia (France) (FR)
Corresponding author
Moeuf, Alexandre
Venue
International Journal of Production Research
Published
2017-09-08
Volume
56
Issue
3
Pages
1118-1136
ISSN
  • 0020-7543 (ISSN-L)
  • 1366-588X
OpenAlex
W2753155801
Cited by
1,188
References
90
Citations by year
2026: 84 · 2025: 116 · 2024: 126 · 2023: 189 · 2022: 176 · 2021: 199 · 2020: 164 · 2019: 101 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 5
FWCI
89.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • International Journal of Production Research (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal) (submittedVersion)
  • SAM, the Arts et Métiers ParisTech open access repository (Paris Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Digital Transformation in Industry
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Impact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › ERP Systems Implementation and Impact
Keywords
Industry 4.0, small and medium-sized enterprises, industrial management, production planning and control, cloud computing, Internet of Things, industrial process monitoring, business model transformation, management skills, technology adoption

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