TY - JOUR

T1 - Industry 4.0-Awareness in South India

AU - Safar, Leos

AU - Spoko, Jakob

AU - Dancakova, Darya

AU - Woschank, Manuel

PY - 2020/4/1

Y1 - 2020/4/1

N2 - Industry 4.0 (I4.0) approaches, frameworks, and technologies have gained an increasing relevance in order to gain sustainable and competitive advantages for industrial enterprises and for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as well. Contrary to previous studies, which are mainly focused on companies, we conducted a questionnaire-based survey on inhabitants, in an attempt to examine general awareness about I4.0 concepts, in the region of South India. Our findings revealed a rather poor informational level of I4.0 concept and its components, which consequently leads to inadequate future actions and expectations. Moreover, respondents with prior information about I4.0 framework tend to have rather positive opinions and expectations of possible future trends. We emphasize that insufficient knowledge of the potential workforce regarding I4.0 concepts, especially in a region with ascending demographic development, can be considered as one of the main barriers for a successful and sustainable future development towards the 4th industrial revolution.

AB - Industry 4.0 (I4.0) approaches, frameworks, and technologies have gained an increasing relevance in order to gain sustainable and competitive advantages for industrial enterprises and for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as well. Contrary to previous studies, which are mainly focused on companies, we conducted a questionnaire-based survey on inhabitants, in an attempt to examine general awareness about I4.0 concepts, in the region of South India. Our findings revealed a rather poor informational level of I4.0 concept and its components, which consequently leads to inadequate future actions and expectations. Moreover, respondents with prior information about I4.0 framework tend to have rather positive opinions and expectations of possible future trends. We emphasize that insufficient knowledge of the potential workforce regarding I4.0 concepts, especially in a region with ascending demographic development, can be considered as one of the main barriers for a successful and sustainable future development towards the 4th industrial revolution.

KW - 0

KW - India

KW - Industry 4

KW - Internet of Things

KW - SMEs

KW - awareness

KW - Internet of things

KW - Awareness

KW - Industry 4.0

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084608335&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - doi:10.3390/su12083207

DO - doi:10.3390/su12083207

M3 - Article

VL - 12

SP - 3207

JO - sustainability

JF - sustainability

SN - 2071-1050

IS - 8

M1 - 3207

ER -