# Low-Code as Enabler of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Industry
## 2 Context Analysis
### Scientific Literature Review  
One of the results found in the literature is a summary-report of the Forum session at the 2018 Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2018) [19]. In this report, it is highlighted the use of low-code development platforms to further increase the speed and robustness of the digital transformation by a gradual expansion of the meta-model of the enterprise design approach, continuously applied on real-life cases. [PERSON] et al. [20] presents RESTsec, a low-code platform based on representational state transfer (REST) that supports rapid security requirements modelling for enterprise services, abiding by the state of the art attribute-based access control (ABAC) authorisation scheme. According to the authors, RESTsec enables developers to embed the desired access control policy and generate the service, the security infrastructure, and the code in a rapid and automated way. Another of the results related to low-code aspects is focused on the domain-specific languages (DSLs) used in the development environment of OutSystems Platform (Boston, MA, USA) [21]. In this case, authors study the problematic of the DSLs for process modelling (business process technology, BPT), as it has a low adoption rate and is perceived as having usability problems hampering its adoption. For this reason, they develop and test a new version of BPT to improve developers' experience. Another result is focused on the development of an integrated software platform (INTELLIT), (Institute of History and Literary Theory \"[PERSON]\" of the Romanian Academy, \"[PERSON]\" University of Sibiu, National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics and Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, 2018) as a support for the Virtual Library of Romanian Literature \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l c c c c} \hline \hline  & **“Low-Code”** & **And “Application”** & **And “Platform”** & **And “App”** \\ \hline Scopus & 184 & 37 & 11 & 1 \\ Web of Science & 208 & 10 & 4 & 1 \\ Google Academic & 5290 & 3450 & 1410 & 548 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Number of publications according to the diverse searches performed in the literature review. to contribute to preserving and capitalizing on the Romanian literary heritage. This publication highlights the importance of the low-code paradigm for choosing the technologies and models used in the development of the INTELLIT Platform [22]. However, the focus of its research is far from the main objective of the present study. [PERSON] et al. [2] presents the project: Lowcomote, that is an innovative training network (ITN) aiming to train professionals in the design, development and operation of low-code development platforms. The motivation of this project is to overcome the limitations that low-code platform presents by being scalable (able to develop largescale applications); open (based on interoperable programming models and standards); and heterogeneous (supporting with models coming from diverse engineering areas). [PERSON] et al. [23] describe NETIoT, an IoT platform built following the hpaPaaS principles, centred around the applications being supported by a set of IoT devices owned by a user. This study is focused on how to efficiently bring measurements from heterogeneous IoT hardware devices to the NETIoT platform in a low-code manner, with zero intervention on hardware and minimum configuration effort platform-wise. Along the same lines, [PERSON] [5] describes the use of the Aure BPM low-code platform for automating business processes in manufacturing. [PERSON] et al. 's [24] study is focused on the technical question and answer (Q&A) platforms, such as Stack Overflow. This platform is an instrument for users to ask and answer questions related to a wide variety of programming topics. Moreover, it offers hundreds of thousands of lines of source code that can be used by developers. One of the objectives of this study is to identify barriers that hinder code reuse.