Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Smith, Brian K.

Committee Member

Burch V., Reuben F.

Committee Member

Bullington, Stanley F.

Date of Degree

5-4-2018

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Abstract

Industry 4.0 is changing the manufacturing environment with its cyber-physical infrastructure to support and help increase production performance. The cyber-physical infrastructure brings new technologies such as Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, and machine learning using advanced algorithms. To deal with this new order to preserve asset performance, industrial maintenance needs to be prepared. This study aims to understand the impact of Industry 4.0 on the skills required within industrial maintenance departments. A survey of industrial maintenance professionals finds that the majority of training comes from internal sources and that much of the information systems used for training are out-of-date or does not exist. The results of this study show that Industry 4.0 will impact the maintenance department and that a Change Management process should be put in place to accomplish this transition smoothly.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17549

Comments

IoT||Internet of Things||Maintenance skills||Maintenance Labor||Cyber Physical Systems||Artificial Intelligence||Machine Learning||Cyber-Physical Systems||Industry 4.0||Maintenance 4.0

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