Assessment of Readiness for Smart Manufacturing and Innovation in Korea

Innovation of manufacturing in the Industry 4.0 era accompanies integration of ICT, such as the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical System, and change the conventional factory into a smart factory. An assessment tool is suggested to measure how much a company or a country is ready for the innovation represented by smart factory. Current manufacturing innovation has two aspects; one is smart appliances to be equipped into a factory, the other is change in organization and culture within manufacturing enterprises. Those two viewpoints are reflected in the assessment criteria for measurement of smartness readiness. The assessment model includes intuitional and comprehensible criteria so that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can easily assess their readiness for Industry 4.0. A pilot survey was conducted by applying the designed tool in order to measure the Industry 4.0 readiness of manufacturing industry in Korea.