Industry4.0 Technology Battles in Manufacturing Operations Management: Non-technical dominance factors for IIoT & MES

With the Fourth Industrial Revolution, new industrial automation technologies (Industrial IoT) may replace the existing standard (MES). Most literature analyses software vendor techno-functional design, or manufacturer’s digital transformation. This paper takes a novel approach, by analysing the Business Eco-System with a lens of 11 nontechnical...

A multi-actor analysis approach in decision making: A framework to complement ISA-95 guidelines within manufacturing companies

Decision making in manufacturing activities is an everyday business. Manufacturing activities involve the interaction of different actors (i.e. departments) to provide information or activities that will serve as an input for decision making. The situation of dependency, network and cooperation in these activities calls in to question the...