A Review Content Analysis Between Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Manufacturing

Paper i proceeding, 2020

Manufacturing companies have been facing a dynamic environment due the Industry 4.0 and sustainable development phenomena and, consequently, a greatest attention from researchers has been attracted to investigate how the 4th Industrial Revolution interact or influence sustainable manufacturing. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the academic progress regarding Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Manufacturing simultaneously, offering as the main result a review content analysis. More specifically, a bibliometric analysis provides a list of prominent journals and popular conferences and the summary of the main authors and their institutions. Moreover, a content analysis presents a semantic network, illustrating current research efforts and suggesting future research directions, identified by topics. In sum, the first topic suggests the need to explore and comprehend the interaction between the areas. The second topic brings the importance to analyse and understand requirements needed to successfully implement. The last topic shows the different ways to implement and assess the sustainable manufacturing in the context of Industry 4.0.