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<p>There are many digital transformation challenges going forward towards Industry 4.0 in Thailand, especially for the traditional manufacturing firms that have been operating without digital technologies. The paper presents a case study of a safety shoe manufacturer, CPL Group Public Company Limited, adopting digital technologies to transform its production system of 40 years. It presents a conceptual design for production tracking based on IoT technologies for productivity improvement. This research uses inductive case study research design by interviewing executives and participating in the digital tracking development project using IoT sensors and image processing. The findings show the key success factors of digital transformation in manufacturing, strategies required for development, and the conceptual design of the production tracking system.</p>
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There are many digital transformation challenges going forward towards Industry 4.0 in Thailand, especially for the traditional manufacturing firms that have been operating without digital technologies. The paper presents a case study of a safety shoe manufacturer, CPL Group Public Company Limited, adopting digital technologies to transform its production system of 40 years. It presents a conceptual design for production tracking based on IoT technologies for productivity improvement. This research uses inductive case study research design by interviewing executives and participating in the digital tracking development project using IoT sensors and image processing. The findings show the key success factors of digital transformation in manufacturing, strategies required for development, and the conceptual design of the production tracking system.

Towards Industry 4.0: digital transformation of traditional safety shoes manufacturer in Thailand with a development of production tracking system

School of Management Technology, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology

Engineering Management in Production and Services

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

There are many digital transformation challenges going forward towards Industry 4.0 in Thailand, especially for the traditional manufacturing firms that have...

Towards Industry 4.0: digital transformation of traditional safety shoes manufacturer in Thailand with a development of production tracking system

Pubblicato online: 02 feb 2022

Pagine: 79 - 94

Ricevuto: 05 ago 2021

Accettato: 30 nov 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/emj-2021-0033

Parole chiave
digital transformation, manufacturing, IoT, production tracking, footwear industry

© 2021 Nuchjarin Intalar et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Towards Industry 4.0: digital transformation of traditional safety shoes manufacturer in Thailand with a development of production tracking system

Pubblicato online: 02 feb 2022

Pagine: 79 - 94

Ricevuto: 05 ago 2021

Accettato: 30 nov 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/emj-2021-0033

Parole chiavedigital transformation, manufacturing, IoT, production tracking, footwear industry

© 2021 Nuchjarin Intalar et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Parole chiave
digital transformation, manufacturing, IoT, production tracking, footwear industry