Industry 4.0 Awareness In Furniture Enterprises: Case Study Of Ordu And Giresun

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 4, 666 - 673, 31.12.2019

Devrim Karademir , Emel Öztürk , Küçük Hüseyin Koç

https://doi.org/10.35229/jaes.641994

Cited By: 2

Abstract

Industry 4.0 is forced to enterprises to set up
new teams who know the software well, follows the new technologies, plans and
programs them, open to change and development. Turkish furniture industry which
has a suitable structure of development is confronted us as one of the
important sector. Nevertheless, the fact that the sector is consisted of small
and micro scale enterprises and the structural and economic problems caused by
being small to emerge as a big obstacle to the use of digital technologies. Within
this study, it was tried to show the awareness of the furniture industry about
the Industry 4.0 approach, the present possibilities, future plans and where
they saw themselves in these developments. As a target group of the study,
furniture enterprises of Ordu and Giresun were selected. Data were collected
through questionnaire from the 45 enterprises in these provinces and were
analysed in computer environment. The possible effects of the Industry 4.0 on
the furniture industry were highlighted, what should be done in this transition
and transformation process, and suggestions were developed and discussed.

Keywords

Industry 4.0, Forest Industry

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