Industry 4.0
Vol. 3 (2018), Issue 6, pg(s) 288-291

Assessment of readiness for „Industry 4.0“

  • 1 Dept. of Industrial Automation, University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Bulgaria

Abstract

The Industry 4.0 initiative poses great challenges to the world, countries and companies connected with the provided digital transformation and the new intelligent technologies in all areas of the industry. This requires the development and follow-up of a national strategy for the adoption and implementation of Industry 4.0. It is important in this case to assess the Industry 4.0 readiness of each country for transformation and change. The main aim of the paper is to present, analyse and compare some of the most promised existing approaches for calculation of Industry 4.0 readiness at national level. Some results are presented and compared.

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