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Industry 4.0 maturity follow-up inside an internal value chain: a case study

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Social, economic, and technological developments are leading companies to face new production challenges. The use of information and communication technologies offers to companies physical and virtual structures, allowing cooperation and quick adaptation along all value chain. However, companies are using those technologies without a proper integration with business partners and even with internal departments. This is the research gap under analysis on this study. Using a readiness model to measure the status of the industry 4.0 enabling technologies adoption inside a company, is possible to transmite knowledge, and pathing initiatives to help on progress and monitorization. This study presents the industry 4.0 enabling technologies readiness level of three departments of one automotive company internal value chain, and discusses the limitations to reach better levels. It also presents the potential results if the benefits of industry 4.0 enabling technologies were reached on a company that assumes to be aligned with the industry 4.0 strategy.

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Special thanks to AISET for this good partnership; to Freepik for providing vectors/icons for some figures, available at www.flaticon.com; and to all reviewers for their valuable feedback.

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This research was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT-MCTES) via the project UIDB/00667/2020 (UNIDEMI).

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Vítor Alcácer, João Rodrigues, Helena Carvalho & Virgílio Cruz-Machado

  2. Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, UNIDEMI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Vítor Alcácer, Helena Carvalho & Virgílio Cruz-Machado

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, ESTSetúbal, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal

    Vítor Alcácer

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Vítor Alcácer designed and coordinated this study. João Rodrigues drafted the manuscript. Helena Carvalho supervised and revised the manuscript. Virgílio Cruz-Machado supervised the project and the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.

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Alcácer, V., Rodrigues, J., Carvalho, H. et al. Industry 4.0 maturity follow-up inside an internal value chain: a case study. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 119, 5035–5046 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-021-08476-3

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