Industry 4.0 enabling manufacturing flexibility: technology contributions to individual resource and shop floor flexibility

Daisy Valle Enrique, B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Politécnico José A. Echeverría (Cuba) and M.S in Industrial Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is PhD candidate at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and at the Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies of University of Beira Interior, Portugal. Her main research interests include strategic and organizational management, digital transformation and operation management.

Érico Marcon is a PhD candidate in Industrial Engineering at the Federal Univeristy of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) – Brazil, and a researcher of the Organizational Engineering Group (NEO – Núcleo de Engenharia Organizacional) from the Department of Industrial Engineering at UFRGS. He has a bachelor degree in Business Administration from Universidade de Passo Fundo and a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from UFRGS. His main research is concerned with Industry 4.0, digital servitization, sociotechnical systems and business model innovation.

Fernando Charrua-Santos is an Auxiliar Professor at the Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies of University of Beira Interior, Portugal. He holds a Degree in Production Engineering and Industrial Management by the University of Beira Interior, Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Beira Interior and PhD in Production Engineering at the University of Beira Interior. His main research áreas are, lean production system, Industry 4.0 and operation management.

Alejandro G. Frank, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Industrial Performance Center. At UFRGS, he is the Director of the Organizational Engineering Group. He received Ph.D. (2013) and M.Eng. (2009) degrees in Industrial Engineering from UFRGS, Brazil, and a B.Eng. degree in Industrial Engineering (2007) from the National University of Misiones (UNaM), Argentina. He has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His research is devoted to the interface between operations and technology management, with emphasis on digital transformation, Industry 4.0, and new business models in manufacturing firms.