Business culture 4.0
A survey by Ca’ Foscari university explores the links between the new production paradigm and the situation in the automotive sector
New production tools and new business culture. It is a question of understanding and change. Paying attention to what’s new from entrepreneurs and managers. Which translates to production organisations that different from those of the past, in that they are more efficient, certainly worth observing and experimenting with continuously. This is also what happens in the face of Industry 4.0: new present and new horizons also for Italian industry. Albeit with some difficulties.
The implications of Industry 4.0 applied to the automotive compartment have been investigated in a piece of research by Anna Cabigiosu (from CAMI – Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). Her “Industria 4.0: diffusione, applicazioni e rischi nel settore auto” (Industry 4.0: Dissemination, applications and risks in the automotive sector) is an accurate analysis of the new production paradigm, of the situation of the application to the automotive sector in Italy and future prospects. In particular, she takes into consideration: the technologies and the potential of the paradigm 4.0, the Calenda Plan, the importance and dissemination of innovation 4.0 in the automotive field, the type of businesses who choose innovation 4.0 in the automotive field, the functional areas involved in innovation 4.0 in the automotive field, and the existing difficulties.
Cabigiosu thus takes the reader on a a sort of journey in an important and sensitive sector for Italian industry, but also within Industry 4.0. The latter is immediately explained with clarity and lucidity, and the sector in which it should be applied is also outlined.
At the end of the survey, she points her finger not on technical difficulties in the application of the new method of production but on the fact that “in general the world of 4.0 still seems blurry and not sufficiently well-known”. More information and understanding is required in order to cope with such a radical change in production organisation. Which nevertheless costs time and effort (organisational and financial).
In short, Industry 4.0 can truly be (and will be) the fourth industrial revolution, but this must be understood fully in order to become the heritage of production culture. If you look closely, it is embarking down the same path taken by the previous innovations that characterised the other industrial revolutions.
What Anna Cabigiosu has written has one great merit: it is clear and linear, helping the reader to understand (even if the theme is by far one of the most thrilling).
Industria 4.0: diffusione, applicazioni e rischi nel settore auto (Industry 4.0: Dissemination, applications and risks in the automotive sector)
Anna Cabigiosu
Research for innovation in the automotive industry, 2018, pp. 251-265
A survey by Ca’ Foscari university explores the links between the new production paradigm and the situation in the automotive sector
New production tools and new business culture. It is a question of understanding and change. Paying attention to what’s new from entrepreneurs and managers. Which translates to production organisations that different from those of the past, in that they are more efficient, certainly worth observing and experimenting with continuously. This is also what happens in the face of Industry 4.0: new present and new horizons also for Italian industry. Albeit with some difficulties.
The implications of Industry 4.0 applied to the automotive compartment have been investigated in a piece of research by Anna Cabigiosu (from CAMI – Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). Her “Industria 4.0: diffusione, applicazioni e rischi nel settore auto” (Industry 4.0: Dissemination, applications and risks in the automotive sector) is an accurate analysis of the new production paradigm, of the situation of the application to the automotive sector in Italy and future prospects. In particular, she takes into consideration: the technologies and the potential of the paradigm 4.0, the Calenda Plan, the importance and dissemination of innovation 4.0 in the automotive field, the type of businesses who choose innovation 4.0 in the automotive field, the functional areas involved in innovation 4.0 in the automotive field, and the existing difficulties.
Cabigiosu thus takes the reader on a a sort of journey in an important and sensitive sector for Italian industry, but also within Industry 4.0. The latter is immediately explained with clarity and lucidity, and the sector in which it should be applied is also outlined.
At the end of the survey, she points her finger not on technical difficulties in the application of the new method of production but on the fact that “in general the world of 4.0 still seems blurry and not sufficiently well-known”. More information and understanding is required in order to cope with such a radical change in production organisation. Which nevertheless costs time and effort (organisational and financial).
In short, Industry 4.0 can truly be (and will be) the fourth industrial revolution, but this must be understood fully in order to become the heritage of production culture. If you look closely, it is embarking down the same path taken by the previous innovations that characterised the other industrial revolutions.
What Anna Cabigiosu has written has one great merit: it is clear and linear, helping the reader to understand (even if the theme is by far one of the most thrilling).
Industria 4.0: diffusione, applicazioni e rischi nel settore auto (Industry 4.0: Dissemination, applications and risks in the automotive sector)
Anna Cabigiosu
Research for innovation in the automotive industry, 2018, pp. 251-265