TITLE:
Review of Disruptive Technology in Automotive Manufactruring
AUTHORS:
Patrick Osakuade, Ojapah Mohammed Moore
KEYWORDS:
Industry 4.0, Disruptive Technology, Automotive Industry, Manufactur-ing Technology and Robotics
JOURNAL NAME:
Technology and Investment,
Vol.14 No.3,
June
27,
2023
ABSTRACT: A study
has been carried out on one of the first generation automotive assembly plant
in Nigeria on their current level of assembly operations, automation and how to
migrate to the industry 4.0. In the process, a comprehensive review of
disruptive technology in the automotive manufacturing sector was carried out to
find out the level of disruptive technology in the global automotive
manufacturing industries. It was discovered that the industry 4.0 technology is
already fully operational in the key global automotive manufacturing and
assembly plants. This has positively impacted the automotive manufacturing industries
and it comes with many benefits like employability, technology advancement,
increases in revenue to the industry, and decarburization of the environment.
The research has shown that with the knowledge of maturity model for the adoption of industry 4.0 in the
manufacturing process, the organization could determine their industry 4.0
level at every point in time and the adoption could begin from a section in the
organization before expanding to other sections, units or department. There
is a need for the
Nigeria automotive industries to start to migrate to the industry 4.0 level
from either the body welding operation or the paint shop.