Nilubon Chonsawat|Apichat Sopadang
Defining SMEs’ 4.0 Readiness Indicators
Chiang Mai University|Chiang Mai University
industry 40 revolution offers smart manufacturing systematically incorporates production technology advanced operation management adopting highstate strategies increase production efficiency reduce energy consumption decrease manufacturer costs simultaneously small mediumsized enterprises smes backbone economic growth development still lack knowledge decisionmaking verify highstage technologys performance implementation therefore research aims define readiness indicators assess support smes toward industry 40 research begins found aspects influence sme 40 readiness using bibliometric techniques result shows aspects occurrences industrial internet cloud manufacturing collaborative robot business model digital transformation grouped five dimensions using visualization similarities vos techniques 1 organizational resilience 2 infrastructure system 3 manufacturing system 4 data transformation 5 digital technology cronbachs alpha validated composite dimensions 0926 level reliability significant positive correlation indicators defined dimension aspects approach finally indicators pilot tested small enterprises appeared 23 indicators could support smes 40 readiness indication decisionmaking context industry 40