abstract
- Although small and medium production plants are keen to adopt smart 5.0 technologies, they might not know where to start, have limited budget and technical staff, and face resistance from operators. Countries like Mexico present manufacturing sectors that are still hesitant to work on effective implementations in Industry 5.0 and lack considerations towards their workforce. This project intends to serve as a preliminary guideline to gradually introduce lean applications to these environments, by helping them identify their current technological capabilities and suggest pilot opportunities to engage their staff in the implementation of affordable solutions with a focus on small-scale, high impact benefits of digitalization and smartening of key shop floor assets and operations. Furthermore, this approach seeks to overcome the budget and cultural impediments by experimenting on off-the-shelf technologies and open-source software tested at a learning factory located at a university that produces a logic probe for circuit testing. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.