Systems Engineering in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

21Developing and Validating an Industry Competence and Maturity for Advanced Manufacturing Scale

Eitan Adres Ron S. Kenett and Avigdor Zonnenshain

Synopsis

The Fourth Industrial Revolution presents exceptional challenges and opportunities for the developed industrial countries and the leading industrial companies. Through advanced and “smart” technologies like massive digitization, big data analytics, and 3D printing, it is now possible to design innovative products and systems and to produce and maintain them in very productive and flexible ways. In many countries, governments have launched national programs for advanced manufacturing, like Industrie 4.0 in Germany, Catapult in the UK, Factories of the Future (FoF) in Europe, and the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) in the US. In Israel, the Ministry of Economy and Industry published a strategic plan for advanced manufacturing and initiated, with the Israel Innovation Authority, the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing in the North of Israel. To support these trends and initiatives we present here a model that is used to assess the status and the maturity of advanced manufacturing implementation in companies, in industrial sectors, and in regional industrial parks. In this work we describe the process of building and validating a model for assessing the maturity level of manufacturing plants in advanced manufacturing implementation. The assessment tool is based on four dimensions (content areas) comprising ...