Abstract
Very well into the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0), humankind can hardly distinguish between what is artificial and what is natural (e.g., man-made virus and natural virus). Thus, the level of discombobulation among people, companies, or countries is indeed unprecedented. The fact that industry 4.0 is explosively disrupting or retrofitting each and every industrial sector makes industry 4.0 the famous buzzword amongst researchers today. However, the insight of industry 4.0 disruption into the industrial sectors remains ill-defined in both academic and nonacademic literature. The present study aimed at identifying industry 4.0 neologisms, understanding the industry 4.0 disruption and illustrating the disruptive technology convergence in the major industrial sectors. A total of 99 neologisms of industry 4.0 were identified. Industry 4.0 disruption in the education industry (education 4.0), energy industry (energy 4.0), agriculture industry (agriculture 4.0), healthcare industry (healthcare 4.0), and logistics industry (logistics 4.0) was described. The convergence of 12 disruptive technologies including 3D printing, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, drones, Internet of Things, nanotechnology, robotics, simulation, and synthetic biology in agriculture, healthcare, and logistics industries was illustrated. The study divulged the need for extensive research to expand the application areas of the disruptive technologies in the industrial sectors.
Highlights
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the world stands on the cusp of industry 4.0 paradigm which has remarkably become global emergence with a core of industrial transformation, revitalization, and development [1]
Industry 4.0 is the integration of cyber and physical worlds through introduction of new technologies in the industrial fields [2, 3]. It is a technological revolution in every production system including operator and maintenance [4], which is quite unique from the previous revolutions as shown in Table 1 [5,6,7,8,9]
A comprehensive literature search was conducted in electronic databases Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Emerald Insight from January 2020 to May 2020 following procedures employed in previous studies [27, 54]. e search was performed independently in all the databases and combined with “and” operators
Summary
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the world stands on the cusp of industry 4.0 paradigm which has remarkably become global emergence with a core of industrial transformation, revitalization, and development [1]. Industry 4.0 has been considered a new industrial stage in which several emerging or disruptive technologies including Internet of ings (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), 3D printing, and big data are converging to provide digital solutions [26, 27]. It is expected to create extra values as the world is massively experiencing digital transformation [48] In this regard, industry 4.0 has opened windows of opportunity for emerging economies and brought its own bureaucracy in terms of the main challenges that these changes pose to firms, industrial systems, and policy approaches [49]. 4.0 (logistics 4.0), and (3) illustrate the convergence of industry 4.0 technologies in the agriculture, healthcare, and logistics industries
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