Analysing manufacturing enterprises to identify opportunities for automation and guide implementation - a review.

Abstract

This paper is a review of the current literature on modelling industrial processes and integrating automation along with the digitisation drive of Industry 4.0 with the purpose of identifying promising directions for future research. Future research will involve working with an automation integration company to develop and test a methodology for assessing manufacturing enterprises to identify areas or processes that can economically be made more efficient through robotics and automation. The expected outcome of the research will be a system that streamlines and speeds up automating and digitalising the manufacturing industry.