Where your plant stands today.
Four questions on people and machines, systems, organisation and culture, placed on the six stages of the acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index.
How it is worked outThe six stages.
acatech's Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index places a company on six stages in four areas. The first two make data digital and connected; the last four put it to use.
- Computerisation
Information technology is used, each system on its own.
The starting point: tasks are digital, but the systems do not share their data.
- Connectivity
Systems are linked, and data flows between them.
Machines and business systems exchange data instead of people retyping it.
- Visibility
What is happening? A live picture of the plant.
Events are recorded as they happen, so decisions rest on current data.
- Transparency
Why is it happening? Causes found in the data.
The recorded data is analysed to understand stops, defects and delays.
- Predictive capacity
What will happen? Forecasts from the data.
Simulations and models show what is coming in time to act.
- Adaptability
How can the plant respond by itself? Decisions taken automatically.
Systems act on the forecasts within limits that people set.
A self-check gives a first position, not a measurement. The acatech study assesses each area in depth; a maturity assessment does the same on your plant.
Sources
- Günther Schuh and others, Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index: Managing the Digital Transformation of Companies, acatech STUDY, National Academy of Science and Engineering, 2017, updated 2020. en.acatech.de