Systems evaluation methodology to attend the digital projects requirements for industry 4.0

ABSTRACT

With the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, there is a need to deploy digital projects that have a dependency relationship with legacy systems in acquiring and managing information making it more accessible to the user. In addition, this integration needs to be synchronized with other countries so as not to lead to uneven maturity among organizations, leading to difficulties in adopting I4.0 in different plants around the world. The objective of this article is to introduce an evaluation methodology between legacy and local systems, using multi-criteria decision-making analysis (MCDM/A) methods, in order to verify if both attend the specifications of the organization’s digital transformation projects. To evaluate the proposed model was used in the case of an automotive company located in Brazil for more than 20 years that has one of its sites in South America (Colombia) with local systems that are bringing numerous difficulties of implementation of projects geared to I4.0. Based on this examination, it was noticed that some local systems would be able to attend the scope of the projects since it would allow a flexibilization to customize certain points of integration.

KEYWORDS:

• Industry 4.0
• digital project
• legacy systems
• local systems and MDCM/A methods

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by Fundação Araucária under Grant 40/2017.