Towards digitalization in production in SMEs – A qualitative study of challenges, competencies and requirements for trainings

Maria Ursula Hulla; Patrick Herstätter; Matthias Wolf; Christian Ramsauer

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2021.11.149

Towards digitalization in production in SMEs – A qualitative study of challenges, competencies and requirements for trainings

Maria Ursula Hulla^*, Patrick Herstätter, Matthias Wolf, Christian Ramsauer

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Abstract

Digitalization is offering enormous opportunities for the manufacturing industry. Nevertheless, SMEs face major challenges in exploiting the potential of the digital transformation especially due to the lack of trained personnel in this respect. This study aims to identify challenges, required competencies of the workforce and requirements for trainings to successfully implement digitalization in SMEs. Therefore, semi-structured interviews were performed with more than 40 industry representatives - CEOs, production managers, interest representatives and consultants. These interviews were analyzed using the software MAXQDA and requirements and recommendations for SMEs were derived.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	887-892
Number of pages	6
Journal	Procedia CIRP
Volume	104
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2021.11.149
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021
Event	54th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems: Towards Digitalized Manufacturing 4.0 - Virtuell Duration: 22 Sept 2021 → 24 Sept 2021

Keywords

competency development
Digitalization
learning factories
manufacturing
production
SME
trainings

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Mobility & Production

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