The 6Ps digital transformation roadmap for the Process Industry

POLIMI team, in the frame of the CAPRI project and with the support of CAPRI’s partners, has developed a digital transformation assessment tool specific for the process industry, the “6Ps digital transformation roadmap”.

The tool rounds POLIMI’s digital transformation (DT) methodology, consisting now of three steps: assessing the digital maturity of a company, setting a clear digital transformation journey and, finally, implementing the digital transformation journey.

The “6Ps digital transformation roadmap” takes care of the second step and prepares the floor for the third one. It consists of an online survey that gives a concrete idea of actions to follow along a digital transformation process. It doesn’t only measure digital maturity, but it also points out the level of progress that a company has towards digital solutions implementation.

Essentially, it is made up  of six dimensions of analysis, clustered into 2 pillars: Product, Process, Platform (“Technical pillars”), and People, Partnership, Performance (“Socio-Economic pillars”).

Each pillar is composed of six different dimensions of analysis typical of Industry 4.0, and each dimension is broken down, in turn, into five sequential development stages, so providing concrete alternatives associated with different levels of digitization.

The outcoming digital transformation journey is the result of answering about the current (“AS-IS”) level of digital evolution of the company and the target one (“TO-BE”).

Inside the CAPRI project, this tool has been applied to some pilot cases, so as to understand the impact of the same on the respective organizations; in this case, the TO-BE point has been defined as the end of the project, along which the companies will make their digital transformation.

All CAPRI’s industries: Asphalt, Steel and Pharma have actively collaborated to the make up of this tool, providing useful suggestions and then testing it on their cases.

The 6Ps digital transformation tool supports manufacturing SME in shaping the best migration journey according to their digital maturity level, available resources and strategic objectives.