articleInternational Journal of Production ResearchMar 28, 2017Closed access

Past, present and future of Industry 4.0 - a systematic literature review and research agenda proposal

YLYongxin LiaoFDFernando DeschampsEDEduardo de Freitas Rocha LouresLFLuiz Felipe Pierin Ramos

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná · Universidade Federal do Paraná · +1 more institution

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Abstract

Over the last few years, the fourth industrial revolution has attracted more and more attentions all around the world. In the current literature, there is still a lack of efforts to systematically review the state of the art of this new industrial revolution wave. The aim of this study is to address this gap by investigating the academic progresses in Industry 4.0. A systematic literature review was carried out to analyse the academic articles within the Industry 4.0 topic that were published online until the end of June 2016. In this paper, the obtained results from both the general data analysis of included papers (e.g. relevant journals, their subject areas and categories, conferences, keywords) and the…

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  • Systematic review
  • Subject (documents)
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Management science
  • Engineering ethics
  • Data science
  • State (computer science)
  • Engineering
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Industry, innovation and infrastructure
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