Industry 4.0 in SMEs Across the Globe

Julian M. Müller is professor at Kufstein University of Applied Sciences, Austria and is visiting professor at Jagellonian University Krakow (Poland) and Corvinius University Budapest (Hungary). He completed his PhD at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). His research interests include Industry 4.0, technology and innovation management, supply chain management, sustainability, small and medium-sized enterprises, and business model innovation.Nikolai Kazantsev is a research associate at The University of Exeter (UK) and senior lecturer at HSE University (Russia). His PhD the University of Manchester is devoted to barriers to new supply relationships between SMEs in the context of Industry 4.0, collaboration design methods and collaborative business models for SMEs. Nikolay’s research interests are related to the impacts of digital technologies and new collaborative business models to industries, companies and individuals.

• 1. Industry 4.0 barriers, drivers and opportunities: An introduction to lessons learned from SMEs worldwide.Julian M.Müller , Nikolai Kazantsev2. Industry 4.0 towards a Circular Economy - Why Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises must be integrated better within Supply Chains.Petra Unterberger Julian M. Müller3. Industry 4.0 in Finland: Towards Twin Transition.Iqra Khan, Osmo Kauppila, Jukka Majava, Marko Jurmu, Jan Olaf Blech, Elina Annanperä, Marko Jurvansuu, Susanna Pirttikangas4. Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Industry 4.0 Transformation in France. Elena Kornyshova, Judith Barrios5. The Case of Industry 4.0 with Hungarian SMEs. Robert Marciniak, Peter Moricz and Krisztina Demeter6. The adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies: the case of Italian manufacturing SMEs. Rubina Romanello, Maria Chiarvesio7. Digitalization and the Future of Production: The Case of Baltic States’ Manufacturing SMEs.Mantas Vilkas, Morteza Ghobakhloo, Andrius Grybauskas8. Industry 4.0 in Poland from a perspective of SMEs. Anna Michna, Jan Kaźmierczak9. Industry 4.0 – Present or future in Serbia.Zoran Vitorovic10. The birthplace of the 1st industrial revolution remains fertile ground for SMEs in its 4th incarnation. Shaden Jaradat11. Industry 4.0 in Brazil.Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira, Marcelo Gonçalves Trentin, Dalmarino Setti, Jose Donizetti de Lima12. Cloud-Based SMART Manufacturing in China.YC Chau, Vincent WC Fung13. Industry 4.0 and SMEs: An Indian Perspective.Debabrata Das, Sankhadip Kumar, Amit Somwanshi14. Industry 4.0 and SME development: The Case of a Middle Eastern Country.Morteza Ghobakhloo, Masood Fathi, Parisa Maroufkhani15. Industry 4.0 in Russia: Digital transformation of economic sectors.Pavel Anatolyevich Drogovoz, Nataliya Aleksandrovna Kashevarova, Vladimir Alekseevich Dadonov, Tatyana Georgievna Sadovskaya, Maksim Konstantinovich Trusevich16. Status, Opportunities, and Barriers in Implementing Industry 4.0 in the U.S. Ling Li, Yang Lu17. Industry 4.0 experience in SMEs: An international overview of barriers, drivers and opportunities.Rubina Romanello, Nikolai Kazantsev, Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira, Julian M. Müller