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.

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