Literature Review: Industry 4.0 Implementation Towards Intelligent Manufacturing Companies

Siham Abouzaid, Abdelali Ennadi, Abderrahim Chamat

Abstract: Facing the growing challenges in the industrial sector and making more progress, is becoming one of the major concerns of companies nowadays. Process digitalization and automation seems to be one of the most efficient solutions that requires to verify the readiness of the company, its capabilities and develop new clear plans for improvement. In this paper, we will introduce the industry 4.0 concepts that present the turning point of the end of the conventional centralized applications, while describing the enabling technologies that interfere with this change.

Keywords: Digital transformation, Industry 4.0, readiness level, Business-IT alignment and integration, Challenges and solutions