Horizontal Collaboration Business Model Towards a Sustainable I4.0 Value Creation

Abstract

Sustainable manufacturing 4.0 brings a new perspective in disruptive business models. As one of the three dimensions of Industry 4.0, horizontal collaboration integrates within I4.0 value creation network. In order to cope with this challenge, horizontal collaboration displays a variety of factors for enterprises to create or develop joint projects such as knowledge transfer, new product and process development, cyber-physical shared resources. Hence, this study presents a horizontal collaboration business model for value creation as part of a sustainable manufacturing 4.0 environment. For this to be achieved, horizontal collaboration variables must be presented within a business model structure. This development is based as of three business model components (1) content, (2) structure, and (3) governance; from which horizontal collaboration variables have been grouped. This document presents a CODAS-HTFLS-Mahalanobis approach to identify horizontal collaboration top variables grouped within the business model components, thus creating a value creation network.