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This chapter presents an approach for manufacturing innovation, which we refer to as a “sandbox approach”. The sandbox approach relies on experimenting with Industry 4.0 solutions in settings that resemble a production environment but with no or restricted interruptions in daily operations. We present a case study of three small and medium-sized Danish manufacturers that have used the sandbox approach as a first step to develop an Industry 4.0 solution to understand the potential of this approach and the effects this creates in the companies. The sandbox approach is an appropriate approach for manufacturing innovation in cases where the company may not be familiar with the technologies they want to exploit, do not understand their own requirements for the solution, or are not sure about the value of a solution they consider implementing and thus cannot make a realistic business case.
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Larsen, M.S.S., Lassen, A.H., Sorensen, D.G.H., Hansen, A.K. (2023). A Sandbox Approach for Manufacturing Innovation: A Multiple Case Study. In: Madsen, O., Berger, U., Møller, C., Heidemann Lassen, A., Vejrum Waehrens, B., Schou, C. (eds) The Future of Smart Production for SMEs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15428-7_38
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