METODOLOGIA PARA AVALIAR NÍVEL DE MATURIDADE DA INDUSTRIA 4.0 E SUA CORRELAÇÃO COM ATRIBUTOS DO METAVERSO INDUSTRIAL

Abstract

Since Facebook changed its name to Meta, a term has been growing and becoming widespread in the industrial sectors: Industrial Metaverse. Understanding this term and how to use the tools proposed by these new technologies to increase sales, optimize resources, and increase productivity can be a key factor in determining the survival or failure of a given business. In this sense, establishing a methodology (easy and accessible for all levels of companies, from small to medium and large) that could help companies identify the current maturity levels for each of the Industry 4.0 tools that are relevant to developing applications in the metaverse in the future is the main objective of this study. To this end, a bibliographic review was carried out to establish and define which would be these main enabling tools of Industry 4.0, and based on this information and the definition of the attributes of the Metaverse by Weinberg and Gross (2023), a correlation table was prepared to serve as a guide in preparing the bases in these companies to support the development of applications in the metaverse, if they wish. Using this proposed methodology, an assessment was made of a company with one of its branches located in the city of Manaus. Through an internal document review of this company, it was possible to assess the maturity level of these Industry 4.0 tools and, through correlation with the metaverse attributes, it was defined which points should be the focus of actions to improve and establish the necessary bases to support application initiatives in the metaverse in the future.