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Process planning and industry 4.0 – the importance of strategically defined transition towards digital work environment

Current level of education, skills available on the market and undefined strategic plan are often referred as the biggest barriers towards Industry 4.0 implementation. The strategically defined transitional period avoids unnecessary costs and minimizes the risks regarding the very high investments and dynamic, unpredictable market. In this paper, the emphasis will be put on digitization of the process planning department and its strategic transition towards Industry 4.0 concept. The models of process planning within the smart factory from the literature will be examined, as well as the frameworks for their strategic transformation. A novel method based on statistical ranking of data collected from the expert group is proposed, as well as the distinction of the Industry 4.0 elements to be implemented specifically for process planning, so that the general framework for the strategic transformation of process planning can be given.

process planning ; industry 4.0 ; smart factory

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