The Adoption of Modern Technology Specific to Industry 4.0 by Human Factor
Iva Mikulić, Anja Štefanić · Annals of DAAAM for ... & proceedings of the ... International DAAAM Symposium · 2018
The digitalization of business and correspondingly processes is surely becoming a requirement for successful organizations and companies within different industries, mainly in order to remain competitive.That emphasizes importance of new ideas and innovations that could even more enhance and improve current processes.The concept of Industry 4.0 represents a development and usage of technology that is alternating traditional industries.However, even that nowadays is not difficult to implement such technologies, the success of implementation depends mostly on accepting changes by employees.This paper presents an approach for easy identification of advantages and disadvantages of modern technology application considering their impact on human factor within the process, as employees are the most important factor in processes.Moreover, it suggests intersection of the lean concept with industry 4.0 in order to improve the process regarding the human factor at the very beginning of industry 4.0 technology implementation.