Modeling of the Master Production Schedule for the Digital Transition of Manufacturing SMEs in the Context of Industry 4.0

The purpose of this article is to propose a guide for the digital transformation (4.0) manufacturing SME’s medium-term production planning process, master schedule (MPS). A model current MPS process group SMEs presented as starting point toward digitization. state reveals lack tools support decision making and need increase reliability input data make more agile. Industry 4.0 technologies modeling could agility in process. However, activities has not been studied. To fill gap, six experts was consulted. novelty study identify that improve integrate them into standardized model. This an ultimate digitization cannot be achieved immediately by any SME, but only after several cycles planning, deployment, improvement. Therefore, research also provides method help determine how start their