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A Survey on Digitalization for SMEs in Brandenburg, Germany

  • Digitalization is widely accepted as a principal technological strategy and is expected to vastly impact and transform industry, predominantly by a substantial improvement of the entire value chain. However, its implementation process remains slow, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as they tend to have misconceptions about the complexity and expense of digitalization. The purpose of this research is to analyze factors that affect Brandenburg-State, DEU SMEs in their decision making process for an effective implementation of digital technologies in their daily business routine. The results of this study are based on a survey that was conducted in cooperation with fifty SMEs, which currently face problems in the areas of enterprise resource planning (ERP), CAD/CAM, automation, logistics and production/factory planning. Ten of these SMEs have decided to invest in digitalization measures and started the implementation process. Three of them were chosen for the case study to evaluate potential benefits,Digitalization is widely accepted as a principal technological strategy and is expected to vastly impact and transform industry, predominantly by a substantial improvement of the entire value chain. However, its implementation process remains slow, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as they tend to have misconceptions about the complexity and expense of digitalization. The purpose of this research is to analyze factors that affect Brandenburg-State, DEU SMEs in their decision making process for an effective implementation of digital technologies in their daily business routine. The results of this study are based on a survey that was conducted in cooperation with fifty SMEs, which currently face problems in the areas of enterprise resource planning (ERP), CAD/CAM, automation, logistics and production/factory planning. Ten of these SMEs have decided to invest in digitalization measures and started the implementation process. Three of them were chosen for the case study to evaluate potential benefits, trade-offs and barriers hampering the implementation of digitalization technologies. These three companies are considered representative items, since their needs and measures investigated were identical to most of the companies of this survey. It was found that the overwhelming majority of the companies regard ERP implementation as their highest priority when investing in the most cost-effective technology.show moreshow less

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Author: Panagiotis Kilimis, Wenchao Zou, Marlon Antonin Lehmann, Ulrich BergerORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.522
ISSN:2405-8963
Title of the source (English):9th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control MIM 2019: Berlin, Germany, 28–30 August 2019
Document Type:Conference publication peer-reviewed
Language:English
Year of publication:2019
Volume/Year:52
Issue number:13
Number of pages:2140
First Page:2145
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 3 Maschinenbau, Elektro- und Energiesysteme / FG Automatisierungstechnik
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