KA SHUI: 数字化转型 Ka Shui: Digital Transformation (Simplified Chinese version)

嘉瑞集团是一家总部位于香港的原始设备和原始品牌生产商，2021年6月，嘉瑞集团的信息技术部门负责人接到集团首席执行官的任务，评估是否应该终止其一直以来作为数字化转型路线图的工业4.0计划。嘉瑞集团于2016年启动了这一计划，旨在打造一个数字化、数据透明、智能制造和研发、自我监测和纠错能力的工业物联网工作场所。然而，在过去三年里，i4.0 计划尚未突破第一阶段。该计划在嘉瑞集团内层层受阻，成效甚微。同时，利益相关者也变得不耐烦。面对这些问题，加上员工反应冷淡，投资者对工业4.0益处的质疑，迫使嘉瑞考虑是否有必要终止该计划，如果有必要，下一步应该朝哪个方向发展。 In June 2021, the head of the information technology department at Ka Shui Group, a Hong Kong–based original equipment and original brand manufacturing company, was asked by the group’s chief executive officer to evaluate whether Ka Shui Group should discontinue the Industry 4.0 program it had been using as road map for digital transformation. Ka Shui Group had launched the program in 2016 with the goal of creating a cyber-physical, connected workplace featuring digitized data transparency and connectivity, smart manufacturing and research and development, and self-monitoring and error-correction capabilities. However, the i4.0 initiative had yet to progress beyond this first stage over the last three years. The program’s cascading progress within Ka Shui Group was stagnant, and results were meagre. At the same time, stakeholders were getting restless. All these problems, along with lukewarm reactions from employees and questions from investors about the benefits of Industry 4.0, were forcing Ka Shui to consider whether it was necessary to discontinue the program and, if so, what direction it should take next.