Table Of ContentIndustry 4.0 in SMEs
Across the Globe
Industry 4.0 in SMEs
Across the Globe
Drivers, Barriers, and Opportunities
Edited by
Julian M. Müller
Nikolai Kazantsev
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Names: Müller, Julian M., editor. | Kazantsev, Nikolai, editor.
Title: Industry 4.0 in SMEs across the globe : drivers, barriers, and opportunities / edited
by Julian M. Müller and Nikolai Kazantsev.
Description: First edition. | Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2022. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifers: LCCN 2021036973 (print) | LCCN 2021036974 (ebook) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Industry 4.0. | Small business.
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DOI: 10.1201/9781003165880
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Contents
Preface......................................................................................................................vii
Editors .......................................................................................................................ix
Chapter 1 Industry 4.0 Barriers, Drivers, and Opportunities: An
Introduction to Lessons Learned from SMEs Worldwide ...................1
Julian M. Müller and Nikolai Kazantsev
Chapter 2 Industry 4.0 towards a Circular Economy: Why Small and
Medium-Sized Enterprises Must Be Integrated Better within
Supply Chains ......................................................................................5
Petra Unterberger and Julian M. Müller
Chapter 3 Industry 4.0 in Finland: Towards Twin Transition ............................. 13
Iqra Sadaf Khan, Osmo Kauppila, Jukka Majava, Marko Jurmu,
Jan Olaf Blech, Elina Annanperä, Marko Jurvansuu,
and Susanna Pirttikangas
Chapter 4 Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Industry 4.0
Transformation in France ...................................................................29
Elena Kornyshova and Judith Barrios
Chapter 5 The Case of Industry 4.0 with Hungarian SMEs ............................... 47
Róbert Marciniak, Péter Móricz, and Krisztina Demeter
Chapter 6 The Adoption of Industry 4.0 Technologies: The Case of Italian
Manufacturing SMEs ......................................................................... 61
Rubina Romanello and Maria Chiarvesio
Chapter 7 Digitalization and the Future of Production: The Case of Baltic
States’ Manufacturing SMEs ............................................................. 79
Mantas Vilkas, Morteza Ghobakhloo, and Andrius Grybauskas
Chapter 8 Industry 4.0 in Poland from a Perspective of SMEs ..........................97
Anna Michna and Jan Kaźmierczak
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Chapter 9 Industry 4.0: Present or Future in Serbia ......................................... 111
Zoran Vitorovich
Chapter 10 Birthplace of the First Industrial Revolution: Fertile Ground for
SMEs in Its Fourth Incarnation ........................................................ 121
Shaden Jaradat
Chapter 11 The Path Towards Industry 4.0 for Brazilian SMEs ........................ 141
Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira, Marcelo Gonçalves Trentin,
Dalmarino Setti, and Jose Donizetti de Lima
Chapter 12 Cloud-Based SMART Manufacturing in China .............................. 155
Y. C. Chau and Vincent W. C. Fung
Chapter 13 Industry 4.0 and SMEs: An Indian Perspective ............................... 165
Debabrata Das, Sankhadip Kumar, and Amit Somwanshi
Chapter 14 Industry 4.0 and SME Development: The Case of a Middle
Eastern Country ............................................................................... 177
Morteza Ghobakhloo, Masood Fathi, and Parisa Maroufkhani
Chapter 15 Industry 4.0 in Russia: Digital Transformation of Economic
Sectors .............................................................................................. 191
Pavel Anatolyevich Drogovoz, Nataliya Aleksandrovna
Kashevarova, Vladimir Alekseevich Dadonov,
Tatyana Georgievna Sadovskaya, and
Maksim Konstantinovich Trusevich
Chapter 16 Status, Opportunities, and Barriers in Implementing Industry
4.0 in the US .....................................................................................209
Ling Li and Yang Lu
Chapter 17 Industry 4.0 Experience in SMEs: An International Overview of
Barriers, Drivers, and Opportunities ................................................229
Rubina Romanello, Nikolai Kazantsev, Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira,
and Julian M. Müller
Preface
The concept of Industry 4.0 has been increasingly analyzed in the literature; however,
to a large extent, the perspective of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has
been restricted to single countries. This book aims to consolidate the experiences of
Industry 4.0 implementation in SMEs across different parts of the globe. It describes
experiences of Industry 4.0 implementation by providing an in-depth overview of
Industry 4.0 in SMEs and covering various national, historical, and geographical
settings in nine European countries: Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia,
Lithuania, Serbia, and the UK, complemented by fve further countries from around
the world: Brazil, China, India, Iran, and the US.
Each chapter describes the national digitalization program, along with barriers,
drivers, and opportunities to implement Industry 4.0 in local SMEs. The book sub-
sumes the fndings across the 14 countries to identify common themes and clusters
of drivers, opportunities, and barriers. It concludes that there is a common path for
Industry 4.0 to be better adopted by SMEs to increase industrial competitiveness
globally. This path stipulates that Industry 4.0 cannot be implemented in a single
frm setting but, rather, in inter-frm settings where the success of conceptually envi-
sioned horizontal, vertical, and end-to-end integration depends on several drivers,
such as demand of customers and an SME’s role in the supply chain, employee skills
and culture of manufacturers, and local digital policy and technology aspects.
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Editors
Julian M. Müller is Professor at Kufstein University of Applied Sciences, Austria,
and is Visiting Professor at Jagellonian University Krakow (Poland) and Corvinius
University Budapest (Hungary). He completed his PhD at Friedrich-Alexander-
University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). His research interests include Industry
4.0, technology and innovation management, supply chain management, sustainabil-
ity, small and medium-sized enterprises, and business model innovation.
Nikolai Kazantsev is a research associate at the University of Exeter (UK) and
a senior lecturer at HSE University (Russia). His PhD from the University of
Manchester is devoted to barriers to new supply relationships between SMEs in the
context of Industry 4.0, collaboration design methods, and collaborative business
models for SMEs. Nikolay’s research interests are related to the impacts of digital
technologies and new collaborative business models on industries, companies, and
individuals.
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