Abstract:

The aim of this article is to present planned empirical study which will take place in 2021 in the area of Poland for small and medium sized enterprises (SME) which consider or are during implementation or plan to implement Industry 4.0 solutions. Authors are going to conduct anonymous survey where the greatest focus will be on the evaluation of the implementation factors such as driving forces, barriers and chances for I4.0 implementation on Polish markets.

As a practical aspect of presented survey authors planned to obtain coherent and comprehensive information related to each implementation factors in order to share that knowledge with organizations which plan to implement I4.0 solutions and would like to prepare their daily activities and project assumptions for all barriers, chances, challenges and risks which are connected with technology changes in their organization.