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Assessment of Industry 4.0 Adoption for Sustainability in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Fermatean Approach

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Recently, Industry 4.0 adoption has gained greater visibility and importance due to its implications for achieving sustainability. However, the lack of studies on adopting Industry 4.0 in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has motivated the present research to investigate how SMEs integrate digital technologies with their conventional processes to achieve sustainability. To this end, indicators of Industry 4.0 adoption in SMEs were figured out through a literature review; consequently, a novel assessment method under Fermatean fuzzy sets was developed to evaluate five SMEs concerning the identified indicators. To be more specific, the proposed method, firstly, determines the objective weight of the identified indicators using FF-CRITIC; secondly, it evaluates SMEs using FF-TOPSIS. The results indicated that the most critical indicator is “flexible and agile production” out of sixteen identified indicators. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis was done to evaluate the sensitivity of the proposed method concerning the weight changes.

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Kamali Saraji, M., Streimikiene, D. (2023). Assessment of Industry 4.0 Adoption for Sustainability in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Fermatean Approach. In: Gholami, H., Abdul-Nour, G., Sharif, S., Streimikiene, D. (eds) Sustainable Manufacturing in Industry 4.0. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7218-8_10

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