AIDA 4.0: Architectures of Industry 4.0 Demonstrated Through Application Scenarios in Business Game

Industry 4.0 is a very promising trend which could allow companies to achieve new levels of efficiency such as highly automated and adaptive supply chains, innovative products and even expansion to new markets. At the same time, due to numerous available scenarios of digitalization within a supply chain, it is very challenging for practitioners to choose one of them and to evaluate the adopted strategy in comparison to other possibilities. In order to provide support for practitioners and find an application-oriented way to teach Industry 4.0, a business game AIDA 4.0 was modeled. It is based on a typical process structure of a producing company, whereas proposed digitalization architectures reflect the current state of research. The AIDA 4.0 allow one group of participants to develop a scenario for their company based on one of the proposed architectures then compare their results with another group, who followed a different strategy.