Title: An evaluation of sustainability of Industry 4.0 aspects

Authors: Harsimran Singh Sodhi

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Punjab, India

Abstract: The Industry 4.0 is known in the present development and improvement of the process and every part of the life related with the interconnection, technology and network that provides security, simplification of process and connection of almost everything based on the internet of things (IoT). This kind of connections and networks allow the industry to improve the processes, the 'things' can follow instructions given by internet of things and learn how to improve that processes making relations between the work or action realised with the ideal taking advantage of the big data analysis and give infinite possibilities to more efficient developments, connections, communications and a lot of options that the industry did not contemplate some years ago. In the present study, evaluation of various aspects of Industry 4.0 has been done and the evaluation of barriers to Industry 4.0 has also been done by using analytic hierarchy process (AHP).

Keywords: Industry 4.0; sustainability; internet of things; IoT; analytic hierarchy process; AHP.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2021.119790

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2021 Vol.34 No.3, pp.399 - 414

Received: 20 May 2020
Accepted: 11 Jun 2020
Published online: 20 Dec 2021 *

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