The examination of applications of industry 4.0 in enterprises by content analysis method

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the technological usages on which Industry 4.0 application of enterprises are based on and to show which advantages they provide. Methodology-For this purpose, the news that were placed in national and international press in 2017 have been searched, 155 news containing the expressions of "Industry 4.0 applications" of enterprises have been framed, and content analysis has been made by investigating the web sites of 9 enterprises (Festo, Bosh, BMW, Caterpillar, KUKA, Arburg, Intel, Atos, Siemens,) using Industry 4.0 application. Findings-It is observed that Industry 4.0 applications of enterprises included usage of technologies such as teaching/learning robots, 3 Dimensional printers, Cloud Informatics System, horizontal and vertical integration, Internet of IOT Objects, virtual reality, and simulation which changed the world. Conclusion-As a result of the research it was seen that Industry 4.0 applications of enterprises reduced costs, improved brand value, caused for increases in production, employment, performance, and efficiency, enabled increase in investments, provided opportunity to give quick response to market by means of rapid production, increased competitive power through fast prototype production and different quality productions, and enabled effective supply chain management.