Challenges, disadvantages and barriers to Industry 4.0 comments
| “So, we have people who understand the business but maybe do not understand the technology that could improve the business. And then similarly, we have some very good technical people, but maybe do not understand the business, so.” (P1) |
| “Because quite often we end up with staff who are not, you know, technology literate as they should be as we emerge in a manufacturing world which is getting highly, highly, highly automated, and extremely efficient. Then if our people are not being educated to follow that, it is very hard for us to ever be competitive in the future because we will be way out of date.” (P4) |
| You know we are quite weak in the area of technology. We do not have a strong technology infrastructure, as you probably observe yourself. It is very weak that needs an awful lot of work. So I think we would have to define a standard to meet even before looking at Industry 4.0. Before we start, because we are not even at the right, the basic level, you know, in terms of our capability. So, I think we need to do an enabling work to get us there, and then you can say: OK, from there, now we can leap off. So that would be it.” (P12) |
| “I think across the board that should be the case that the systems we put in need to enable compliance by default. As opposed to the other way around, that we put in systems and then we have to make the systems complicated because we need them to be compliant” (P9) |
Source(s): Authors’ own work
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