Developing and Validating an Industry Competence and Maturity for Advanced Manufacturing Scale

To help companies advance on the roadmap toward Industry 4.0, the authors developed an assessment tool that assesses the maturity level of a specific or group of companies and sketches a set of focused areas for the companies to pursue in their effort to deploy Industry 4.0 methods. They call this model Industry competence and Maturity for Advanced Manufacturing. At the specific industrial company level, this chapter considers the competence and maturity for advanced manufacturing as a multidimensional latent construct that can be characterized along four dimensions: value chain, infrastructure, monitoring and control processes, and engineering processes. These dimensions, together, make up an individual‐level characteristic that can be understood as a single industrial organizational construct. Each of these four dimensions consist of subdimensions that were identified through an extensive process based on literature, consultation with experts, and reports by international entities working on promoting the implementation of advanced manufacturing.