Maturity Assessment: A Case Study toward Sustainable Smart Manufacturing Implementation

Due to the rapid evolution of Internet of Things (IoT), the advantage of having smart manufacturing has been quickly recognized by the industry. Manufacturing companies are facing challenges of organizing an unprecedented technical integration of systems and factories across hierarchy, domain boundaries and life cycle phases. Many reference models and use-case are available in national and international smart manufacturing related studies. However, gaps between study and actual factory environment exist due to the less care of interconnecting of process steps toward smart manufacturing implementation. To make over the transformation of implementation effectively, methodology to identify the gaps and address appropriate solutions in practice is needed. This paper provides insights that help the manufacturing companies toward developing a practical process to achieve the ultimate goal of interconnecting every step of their smart manufacturing. Case-study that lower the entry barrier, and reduce the investment risk of the transformation process for the factory automation system is highlighted and validated.