Rapid advances in industrialisation and informatisation methods have spurred tremendous
progress in developing the next generation of manufacturing technology. Today, we are on …

Leading nations have reemphasized manufacturing with national competitive strategies
such as Industry 4.0. The paradigm of production and manufacturing system is shifting, in …

Organizations in both developed and developing economies are paying great attention to
the Industry 4.0 revolution and associated uses of technologies due to its potential benefits …

Industry 4.0 has come as a consecutive and predicted outcome of the previous industrial
periods, recently dubbed Industry 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 (Pereira and Romero 2017). As an …

Industry 4.0 transforms the manufacturing sector with dynamic, networked, complex
industrial environments. These environments generate vast amounts of data and require …

Purpose The digital transformation towards Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) has become imperative for
manufacturers, as it makes them more flexible, agile and responsive to customers. This …

Artificial intelligence (AI) contributes to the recent developments in Industry 4.0. Industries
are focusing on improving product consistency, productivity and reducing operating costs …

This paper aims to investigate the Industry 4.0 technologies adopted in Italy and whether
they are leveraged to pursue specific manufacturing strategies. A survey was conducted …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an Industry 4.0 Readiness Assessment
Framework (I4. 0RAF) and demonstrate its applicability and practical relevance through a …

This open access book explores the concept of Industry 4.0, which presents a considerable
challenge for the production and service sectors. While digitization initiatives are usually …