The digital transformation in manufacturing industry: A field study in Thrace region

The scope of this study is the determination and analysis of the companies operating in the organized industrial zones in the Thrace Region, the new production model as digital (Industry 4.0), the level of benefiting from the elements of digital transformation, the reasons for not adopting digital transformation in companies and other related factors. 5 different organized industrial zones in Thrace Region were selected for the study. A research form was used to conduct the study. Although the literature is helped in designing the research form, the form has been specially prepared for this study. For this reason, the Cronbach's alpha value of the scales was examined and it was seen that the value was higher than 0.70 for all scales. The companies that would not have any problems with these applications were met. In sharing the research form with companies, the level of answering the simple random sampling method and reaching the population was calculated as 56.25%. IBM SPSS 25.0 was used in the data analysis of the study. Hypotheses related to the study were made, accepted or rejected. Mann Whitney U test, Kruskall Wallis H test and Wilcoxon sign test were used to analyze the data. In this study, the confidentiality of the companies sharing was protected. When the worksheets are analyzed, the level of digital transformation and the benefit levels of digital Transformation. It was concluded that they will increase the digital transformation processes in their units within the company compared to today.