Increasing the competitiveness of SMEs is considered as strengthening and stabilizing the country's economic system. The purpose of this study was to investigate guidelines to increase the competitiveness of SMEs in the manufacturing sector in the digital economy. Both qualitative and quantitative studies were conducted. Questionnaires were used to collect the quantitative data from 500 executives in SMEs in manufacturing sector. Descriptive, referential, and multivariate statistics were used to analyze the data.