Digitization can now be found everywhere and is spreading like wildfire. I am therefore now writing a whole series of articles on the subject of digitization. My motivation behind this is that digitization means something different for every industry and type of company and I want to work out these differences. An illustration of the differences in different industries can be found in the following figure. In this section I would like to go into the actual core of this article and illustrate digitization in production. Industry characteristics So far, production in the IT sector has mainly benefited from the pure administration of production-related information or the job of processing orders. Due to the lack of technology and the low use of agile methods, complex relationships between processes and production were difficult to decipher and poorly optimized. Many manufacturing companies have already recognized this problem. They have found help in…
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