Shopfloor Management Acceptance in Global Manufacturing

Industry 4.0 and the digitization provides unprecedented technological opportunities for digital Shopfloor Management (dSFM) in a globalized world. Nevertheless, technology, involves millions of workers, each with different backgrounds, expectations and dreams. Thus, the effectiveness of implementing dSFM depends on the acceptance of local workers. Therefore, we proposes an acceptance model for dSFM, which can be used to evaluate the local and individual acceptance of dSFM in global manufacturing. The results of a preliminary validation showcase this localization need. In a nutshell, global manufacturing and its digitization solely achieve future proofness by local worker acceptance and the implementation of localized dSFM.