Study of Key Enablers of Industry 4.0 Practices Implementation Using ISM-Fuzzy MICMAC Approach.

Industry 4.0 (I4) has rapidly gained its importance across manufacturing industries over the globe. It can be seen as the fourth up-gradation of the Industry sector, which is competent to influencing entire business processes mainly at the designing, production and delivery stages. Accordingly, the key objective of this research is to identify the key enablers of I4 practices that facilitate its adoption across the Indian manufacturing industries. This study captures a unique set of ten key enablers with the help of existing literature. Further, Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)-fuzzy MICMAC was used to assess the interrelationship among key enablers and also compute a structural hierarchy. The primary result indicates that 'Supportive government policies' have a critical impact in implementing I4 practices from Indian perspective. This study may help policymakers and practitioners in the implementation of I4 practices in the Indian perspective for sustainable business development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]