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Evaluating the maturity of the industrial Internet of power enterprises and finding the weak points in the construction of the industrial Internet are of great significance for the digital transformation of power enterprises. Firstly, this paper reviews the existing literature and analyzes the evaluation situation of industrial Internet maturity. Research has found that there is relatively little research on the maturity evaluation of the industrial Internet for the power industry, and existing maturity models have difficulty meeting industry-specific needs. Therefore, it is very important and necessary to build a maturity evaluation model of the industrial Internet suitable for the power industry. Subsequently, based on the specific characteristics of the power industry, while referring to the authoritative literature and industry standards, this paper constructs a three-level index system covering key elements such as equipment networking, information network infrastructure construction, supply chain management, and intelligent production and simultaneously expounds the quantitative collection methods and scoring principles of indices. Then, introducing the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to determine subjective weights and the Entropy Weight Method (EWM) to quantify the objective weights of indices, a maturity evaluation method that combines subjective judgment and objective data support is formed. Later, the calculation method for the comprehensive score of indices and the criteria for classifying maturity levels are explained. Finally, a specific power enterprise is selected as a case study, and the evaluation results are analyzed to verify the feasibility of the evaluation method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems13020104","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,10]],"date-time":"2025-02-10T03:39:47Z","timestamp":1739158787000},"page":"104","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Evaluation and Analysis of Industrial Internet Maturity for Power Enterprises in the Digital Transformation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Yan","family":"Jia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zengqiang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qianying","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"86","DOI":"10.1631\/FITEE.1601885","article-title":"Applications of artificial intelligence in intelligent manufacturing: A review","volume":"18","author":"Li","year":"2017","journal-title":"Front. 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