During the last years the manufacturing world has kept on changing following the lead of new digital technologies development. This incredible and simultaneous transformation of manufacturing technologies signed the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also called Industry 4.0. The implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies – the so-called Smart Technologies, such as additive manufacturing, industrial analytics, internet of things, cloud manufacturing, advanced human-machine interface and advanced automation became increasingly important. Nowadays companies, especially of western countries where the workforce is more expansive, need to adopt these new manufacturing solutions to stay competitive in a more and more challenging market. Start-up are among the most important Smart Technologies providers but, differently from others, their incredible capability to think outside the box makes them the seed of innovation. This is why this thesis aims, analyzing the main fields where start-up are concentrated, at understanding the future directions of innovation. After the creation of a database constituted by 215 start-up from all over the world, a general analysis of the start-up trends is made, giving a particular focus to the start-up distribution within the different Smart Technologies groups, geographical areas and funding characteristics. The analysis output is then supported and integrated with interviews made to Italian start-up operating in the Industry 4.0. The interviews, made to start-up offering IT solutions, aimed at deepening the results of the database analysis paying particular attention to the motivations behind the integration between IT solutions, the barriers hindering start-up development and the Italian start-up funding situation. A suggestion for future researches could be understanding why and which of the nowadays new-born start-up actually had success and could develop and why others couldn’t exit from the start-up phase and declined. This could lead to the creation of a general framework for Industry 4.0 start-up success and also give practical indications on Industry 4.0 technologies demand.
Negli ultimi anni il mondo della produzione ha continuato a cambiare seguendo lo sviluppo delle nuove tecnologie digitali. Questa incredibile e simultanea trasformazione delle tecnologie di produzione ha segnato l'inizio della Quarta Rivoluzione Industriale, chiamata anche Industria 4.0. L'implementazione delle tecnologie Industry 4.0 - le cosiddette Smart Technologies, come l’Additive Manufacturing, l'Industrial Analytics, l'Internet of Things, il Cloud Maufacturing, l'Advanced Human-Machine Interface e l'Advanced Automation sono diventate sempre più importanti. Al giorno d'oggi le aziende, soprattutto quelle occidentali, dove la forza lavoro è più costosa, devono adottare queste nuove soluzioni produttive per rimanere competitive in un mercato sempre più impegnativo. Le start-up sono tra i più importanti fornitori di Smart Technologies ma, a differenza degli altri, la loro incredibile capacità di pensare fuori dagli schemi li rende il seme dell'innovazione. Questo è il motivo per cui questa tesi si propone, analizzando i principali settori in cui sono concentrate le start-up, la comprensione delle direzioni future dell'innovazione. In seguito alla creazione di un database costituito da 215 start-up provenienti da tutto il mondo, è stata effettuata un'analisi generale delle start-up, dando particolare attenzione alla distribuzione delle start-up all'interno dei diversi gruppi di Smart Technologies, aree geografiche e caratteristiche di finanziamento. L'output dell'analisi è quindi supportato e integrato con interviste fatte a start-up italiane operanti nell'Industria 4.0. Le interviste, realizzate per le start-up che offrono soluzioni IT, mirano ad approfondire i risultati dell'analisi del database prestando particolare attenzione alle motivazioni che stanno dietro l'integrazione tra le soluzioni IT, le barriere che ostacolano le start-up e la situazione delle start-up italiane in generale. Un suggerimento per le ricerche future potrebbe essere capire perché e quali delle start-up nate oggi hanno avuto successo e perché altre non ci sono riuscite. Ciò potrebbe portare alla creazione di un framework generale che delinei i fattori di successo per le start-up dell’Industria 4.0 e potrebbe fornire indicazioni pratiche sulla domanda di tecnologie Industry 4.0.
An overview of startups belonging to Industry 4.0 : IT solutions integration for the smart manufacturing
NINOVE, ELEONORE JOSEPHINE VALENTINE
2017/2018
Abstract
During the last years the manufacturing world has kept on changing following the lead of new digital technologies development. This incredible and simultaneous transformation of manufacturing technologies signed the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also called Industry 4.0. The implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies – the so-called Smart Technologies, such as additive manufacturing, industrial analytics, internet of things, cloud manufacturing, advanced human-machine interface and advanced automation became increasingly important. Nowadays companies, especially of western countries where the workforce is more expansive, need to adopt these new manufacturing solutions to stay competitive in a more and more challenging market. Start-up are among the most important Smart Technologies providers but, differently from others, their incredible capability to think outside the box makes them the seed of innovation. This is why this thesis aims, analyzing the main fields where start-up are concentrated, at understanding the future directions of innovation. After the creation of a database constituted by 215 start-up from all over the world, a general analysis of the start-up trends is made, giving a particular focus to the start-up distribution within the different Smart Technologies groups, geographical areas and funding characteristics. The analysis output is then supported and integrated with interviews made to Italian start-up operating in the Industry 4.0. The interviews, made to start-up offering IT solutions, aimed at deepening the results of the database analysis paying particular attention to the motivations behind the integration between IT solutions, the barriers hindering start-up development and the Italian start-up funding situation. A suggestion for future researches could be understanding why and which of the nowadays new-born start-up actually had success and could develop and why others couldn’t exit from the start-up phase and declined. This could lead to the creation of a general framework for Industry 4.0 start-up success and also give practical indications on Industry 4.0 technologies demand.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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