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Assessing the IT and Software Landscapes of Industry 4.0-Enterprises: The Maturity Model SIMMI 4.0

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Information Technology for Management: New Ideas and Real Solutions (ISM 2016, AITM 2016)

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The increasing digitalization of business and society leads to drastic changes within companies. Nearly all enterprises have to face enormous challenges when dealing with topics such as Industry 4.0/Industrial Internet. One of these challenges represents the realistic classification of the company’s own IT infrastructure. In this paper we present a maturity model (SIMMI 4.0 – System Integration Maturity Model Industry 4.0) that enables a company to classify its IT system landscape with focus on Industry 4.0 requirements. SIMMI 4.0 consists of 5 stages. Each describes several characteristics of digitization, which allows a company to assess itself. Additionally, recommended activities are presented for each stage of digitization, which can enable a company to reach the next stage of maturity. Due to the large number of possible characteristics concerning Industry 4.0 and digitization, we also present several possible topics for future research to improve and refine the developed maturity model.

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  1. Technische Universität Dresden Chair of Information Systems, esp. IS in Manufacturing and Commerce, Helmholtzstr. 10, 01069, Dresden, Germany

    Christian Leyh & Katja Bley

  2. Faculty of Business Administration, University of Applied Sciences, Max-Planck-Str. 39, 74081, Heilbronn, Germany

    Thomas Schäffer & Sven Forstenhäusler

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Table 1. Example of a categorized maturity model (see [17]) according to our classification scheme
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Table 2. Overview of SIMMI 4.0
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Leyh, C., Schäffer, T., Bley, K., Forstenhäusler, S. (2017). Assessing the IT and Software Landscapes of Industry 4.0-Enterprises: The Maturity Model SIMMI 4.0. In: Ziemba, E. (eds) Information Technology for Management: New Ideas and Real Solutions. ISM AITM 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53076-5_6

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