Research on the Quantum Leap Path of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Enterprises from the Perspective of Dynamic Capabilities — A Case Study of Ailebo Robot
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study takes Ailebo Robot Co., Ltd. as a case to analyze the dynamic capabil-ity evolution mechanism of digital transformation in SMEs. Through an embed-ded single-case research method, it reveals the enterprise's transformation path across three dimensions: technology, business, and internationalization. The company has built six core technological systems to achieve cross-domain in-novation, relying on a repository of 3 million process cards to support flexible production of 65,000 types of parts, forming a three-stage development model of "specialization, innovation - platformization - globalization". The research finds that through precise demand perception (e.g., 80 iterations of automatic stretching manipulator development), resource integration and reconfiguration (technology system migration to semiconductor inspection and other fields), and organizational model innovation (intelligent machining sharing platform), the enterprise has successfully transformed from an equipment supplier to an industry standard setter. Its practice path of "industrial thinking-dominated digitalization" provides a replicable transformation paradigm for manufacturing enterprises with annual output value below 500 million yuan, particularly sig-nificant in avoiding the "digitalization for digitalization's sake" pitfall. The re-search results expand the application scenarios of dynamic capability theory in the equipment manufacturing field, providing theoretical support and practical guidance for SMEs' digital transformation.
Source: Economics & Business Management
DOI: 10.63313/ebm.9089
Authors: Youyang Wu, Rui Feng, Yueli Chen, Sibo Zhao
Institution: Foshan University
Language: English
Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4413314437