Our paper explores how IT security issues affect the implementation of Industry 4.0 in small
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector. To develop this research …

Abstract The Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) paradigm is considered one of the most trending topics in
the academic and industrial context, that involves emerging technologies that can make the …

Abstract Industry 4.0, known as the fourth technological transformation towards digital-
physical systems in manufacturing, creates a disruptive impact on industries. Manufacturing …

SMEs are seen to have a hard time integrating the fourth industrial revolution. The purpose
of our investigation is to grasp the impact that SMEs inherent limitations have on their …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the financial resources invested
in advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) and social capital (SC), in terms of the set …

The adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies is a priority from the perspective of firms'
innovation performance. Nevertheless, enterprises' efforts to follow the pace of digital …

The technological development is moving rapidly enabling manufacturing companies with
new possibilities for digital transformations to offer products and services to current and new …

Future industrial systems have been popularised in recent years through buzzwords such as
Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Whilst the …

The concept of Industry 4.0 has many advantages for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
(SME) in relation to other industrial management methods such as Just-In-Time or MRPII. Its …

Industry 4.0 has been a major force framing the societal, economic and technological
environment after 2010. Exposed to ongoing digital transformation, companies are able to …