Abstract
The aim of the research is to provide a sample data and analysis to present the state of digitalization in the Baltic sea region. A matrix contains seven operation fields and ten services and technologies mapped available digital services in six countries like Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. A comparison analysis describes the level of digitalization strength and weakness areas by country in Baltic sea region. Support structure analysis is a reference to select the suitable partner to enhance the level of digitalization in countries. The results show that there are differences in the strength and weakness areas in Baltic sea region. Further the strength areas of each country are compared to weakness areas of digitalization to develop a roadmap to improve the readiness to implement and use Industry 4.0 functionality and tools.
Highlights
The digitalization structure and readiness for the Industry 4.0 in metalwork manufacturing is evaluated with six countries in Baltic region: Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland
Estonian part of the data set has a high representation of educational institutes, competence centres, and digital innovation hubs; many of these are public organizations suggesting a high level of communal support
Latvia and Estonia listed a higher number of industrial associations, whereas Denmark had none in the sample
Summary
Integrating manufacturing with modern communication technologies, automation, and robotized boost availability, flexibility, reliability and maintainability in manufacturing industry. [5,6] Key benefits of digital manufacturing are improved employee collaboration, connectivity, productivity, and potentially autonomous process analysis and improvement capabilities, known as Industry 4.0. A dataset collected by questionnaire is combined with manufacturing companies’ capabilities collected by interviews or listed on public sources such as web pages.. A dataset collected by questionnaire is combined with manufacturing companies’ capabilities collected by interviews or listed on public sources such as web pages.1 From this data, it is possible to see the existing level of digitalization in each of the studied countries, and in the case of potential improvement, see if the relevant technologies are available in the country.
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