Industry 4.0 Technologies Transfer: ISO 500 Textile and Apparel Enterprises Review

Abstract

Industry 4.0, which we are on the verge of, is projected to either change or completely eliminate traditional industries. For this reason, it is clear that businesses that adapted early to Industry 4.0 will have an advantage in competition, as in other industrial revolutions. Hence, it is inevitable for the Textile and Ready-to-Wear Industry to be affected by this revolution. One of the easiest methods to adapt to Industry 4.0 is technology transfer. For this reason, the transfer of Industry 4.0 technologies of textile and apparel industry, one of the most important industries for Turkey, is evaluated in this study. Within the scope of this assessment, textile and ready-to-wear enterprises that managed to enter ISO's list of 500 major industrial enterprises were examined. The data of the related enterprises have obtained from official web pages, reports, corporate media shares and news sources. From the analysis of the data obtained, it has found that 47.37% (18 units) of textile enterprises and 28.57% (4 units) of apparel enterprises transferred some of the technologies of Industry 4.0. In addition, textile and clothing companies transferred the Big Data Technology the most. On the other hand, it has been determined that textile enterprises have not yet transferred system integration and apparel enterprises have not yet transferred Cloud Computing and autonomous Robot technologies.