Barriers and Enablers for Digitizing Shop Floor Management Boards

Abstract

This paper aims at revealing the current distribution of digitized boards at the shop floor and to explore barriers and enablers for improving the application of digitized boards to accomplish shop floor meetings. This paper suggests a close relation between Human Bond Communication (HBC) and Shop Floor Management (SFM) because HBC aims at evolving communication into advanced levels by using digital opportunities. Furthermore, it is believed that digitized SFM boards facilitates communication and affect the managerial approach wherefrom new business opportunities can be developed. Based on a survey and subsequent a workshop with practitioners this paper shows that digitized boards have not yet been adapted at the SFM level. The research indicates that the managerial approach in SFM meetings are stuck in an old industrial mindset, which obstructs the digital transformation of SFM meetings.