Digital Transformation in Production Systems: A Global Business Perspective
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56830/WRBA07202605Keywords:
Digital Transformation, Production System, Global BusinessAbstract
Digital transformation in manufacturing represents the broad integration of digital technologies across manufacturing value chains and structures, transforming business strategies, organizational capabilities, and operational dynamics. The Internet of Things, realtime analytics, smart robotics, additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and automation enable increasingly self-sufficient operations. These techniques support planning, scheduling, adequate management, process control, defect prediction, predictive maintenance, and inventory control. Aid logistics and optimization. Change beyond technology adoption requires strategic transformation, plant management, workforce development, and new skills to tackle efficiency gaps and align production with evolving cost structures. Digitization yields productivity gains, cost reductions, performance improvements, efficiencies, and synergies as organizational outcomes, and stop-person value. Cross-local scale identifies North America, Europe, and South Korea as major adopters of Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things technologies. However, excessive investment, uncertain returns, and flexible capabilities hinder adoption in emerging economies. Overall, the composition shows several known country-wide pathways and limited commitments, indicating that the creation of virtual transformation is multifaceted and requires context-sensitive techniques for sustained and aggressive performance.
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