Open AccessThe concept of the industry 4.0 in a German multinational instrumentation and control company: a case study of a subsidiary in Brazil
Author(s) -
Renato Mana,
Francisco César,
Ieda Kanashiro Makiya,
Waini Volpe
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
independent journal of management and production
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2236-269X
DOI - 10.14807/ijmp.v9i3.665
Subject(s) - german , multinational corporation , instrumentation (computer programming) , control (management) , business , maturity (psychological) , relation (database) , complement (music) , engineering management , operations management , process management , computer science , marketing , management , engineering , economics , political science , finance , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , database , complementation , gene , law , history , phenotype , operating system
The study aims to present the industry's 4.0 concepts and facilities available on the market, applied in a German instrumentation and control industry in Brazil. The study aims to present advanced manufacturing technologies that are already being applied in the company studied. As a research method, a bibliographic review is done first, followed by a qualitative, quantitative and descriptive analysis of the results of a case study. The results are intended to present the company's maturity level in relation to Industry 4.0 (I.4.0) as well as to diagnose possible new applications to increase the control and monitoring of its activities. At the end of the paper, suggestions for future studies will be available to complement the methodology proposed in this study.