Abstract:
The 21
st
century has witnessed
precipitous
changes
spanning
from the way of life
to
the
technologies that emerged.
W
e have entered a
nascent
paradigm shift
(
industry 4.0
)
where science
fictions have become s
cience facts, and technology fusion is the main driver. Th
us
, ensuring that
any advancement in technology reach
and benefit all is the ideal opportunity
for
everyone. In this
study
, disrupt
ive technologies of industry 4.0
was
explored and quantified in ter
ms of the number
of their appearances in
published
literature. Th
e study
aimed at identifying industry 4.0 key
technologies which have been ill
-
defined by
previous researchers and to en
umer
ate
the required
skills of industry 4.0. Comprehensive literature s
urvey cover
ing
the field of engineering,
production, and management
was done
from
multidisciplinary
databases
:
Google scholar,
ScienceDirect, Scopus,
Sage,
Taylor & Francis
and
Emerald insight
.
R
esults of the
electronic survey
s
how
ed
that
35 disruptive tec
hnologies were quantified and 13 key technologies
:
Internet of things,
Big data, 3D printing, Cloud computing, Autonomous robots, Virtual and
A
ugmented reality,
Cyber physical s
ystem, Artificial intelligence, Smart sensors, Simulation, Nanotechnology, Dron
es
and Biotechnology were identified
.
B
oth technical and personal skills to be imparted into the human
workforce for industry 4.0 were
report
ed. The study
i
dentified
the need to investigate the capabilit
y
and the readiness of developing countries in adapti
ng industry 4.0 in terms of the changes in the
education systems and industrial manufacturing settings.
T
he study proposes the need to addres
s
integration o
f industry 4.0 concepts into the current
education system
