Abstract
Industry 4.0 and its potential impact on different aspects of environmental sustainability have been analysed from different perspectives in the existing literature. However, Industry 4.0 collects different technologies that are not necessarily combined. It is clear that the combination of different technologies is the core value of Industry 4.0, but the examination of each technology separately is crucial for determining the right combination of technologies for each specific case. For that reason, the following research provides a systematic literature review (SLR) of each technology included in Industry 4.0 and its effects on environmental sustainability aspects based on 52 research papers. 417 articles from the SCOPUS database, which contain the word Industry 4.0 in the title, abstract, and/or in the indexed keywords, were scanned by the command-line program Astrogrep to find the most common Industry 4.0 technologies. First, the study reviews the potential effects of the six technologies on different aspects of environmental sustainability, and later on, the challenges faced by organizations when applying these technologies for environmental purposes were reviewed and new research scopes and future research directions were highlighted.
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