AMI-4-SME Methodology
Particular in manufacturing SMEs, constraints like limited investment potentials and investment risks, limited staff quantity and qualification to drive business process innovations often create a strong reluctance to innovation. Therefore, the project offers the AMI-4-SME Methodology providing clear instructions and guidelines how to address the successful utilisation of the new AmI technologies to create measurable business benefits on short to medium term and enabling SMEs to keep pace with the innovation speed at large companies.
To cover all aspects of planning, specification and implementation of process improvements, the AMI-4-SME Methodology is divided in three phases (i.e. Analysis, Specification & Selection and Implementation), each including "explicit execution instructions" for the SME's employees. Moreover, to facilitate the practical realisation, the methodology provides SMEs with all necessary guidelines and templates, as presented in the following Table, which are needed for self-contained implementation of improvement measures.
| Phase | AMI-4-SME Methodology Support |
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| All |
Methodology Handbook, covering all life-cycle phases, including:
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| Analysis & Conception |
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| Specification & Selection |
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| Implementation |
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The AMI-4-SME Methodology is supporting a traceable improvement process driven by the company staff, enabling informed decisions of the management:
- Focus on the identification of critical weak points jeopardising the achievement of the company's objectives and on specification of improvement measures to overcome the most critical weak points.
- Provision of a methodology guidance from elaboration of an initial concept up to the solution integration, not requiring any specific a priori qualification on methodologies.
- Based on the results of a required classical process innovation, it is identified to what extent AmI technologies can create additional human centric innovation potentials and in which business processes AmI based solutions need to be introduced.
Furthermore, the AMI-4-SME Methodology provides an approach for the assessment of AmI based innovation potentials, enabling SMEs to make decisions on the following key topics, without being experts on AmI technologies:
- To what extent AmI technologies can create innovation potentials - innovation by technology.
- In which of their business processes technology need to be introduced and organisation of work to be changed - innovation by a human centric process reorganisation.
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