6 Conclusion
Industry 4.0 is a vision that describes the industry of the future. The specific potential lies above all in high-flexibility, high-productivity, and resource friendly production that makes it possible to manufacture highly individualised products under the economic conditions of mass production. Engineering, production, logistics, service, and marketing are ultimately interconnected in dynamic, real-time-optimised, valueadding cross-enterprise networks. Through implementation of Industry 4.0 the benefits are ability to control and monitor all its processes, personalisation, open communication and all this are achieved through the dimension of Industry 4.0. Furthermore, it will bring forward towards more sustainable industrial value creation. As per current research, this is predominantly categorized as contribution to the environmental dimension of sustainability. Apart from this characterisation, Industry 4.0 also embraces an impressive opportunity for pursuing sustainable industrial value creation on all three sustainability dimensions which are economic, social, and environmental.
Based on the findings above, Malaysian SMEs are lacking of knowledge pertaining to Industry 4.0 especially in terms of dimension of distribution control, data driven services, smart factory and strategy and organisation. It is hoped that by understanding the level of maturity among SMEs towards Industry 4.0 may assist them in using the technology to its fullest. However, there is a need to educate people for accepting machines as part of business advantage that respond to various requirements of customer and workers, rather than focusing on replacing operations and workers with machine. Lastly, embedding with knowledge about Industry 4.0 is a must in shaping it to achieve the strategy and goal set for their business with high value added operations and services that encourage in bringing human and machine interaction to the next level.
