Obstacles of Implementing Industry 4.0 in Nepalese Industries and Way-Forward

Industry 4.0 is buzzword in recent years and has become a topic of growing importance. It new technical framework that been widely debated studied likely to eventually constitute fourth industrial revolution because it provides significant progress relevant intelligent potential industries the market. As Nepal introduced open policies for improving trade conditions mid-1980s, have be competitive capable enough sustain themselves such policies. Such, dependencies can minimize, could only possible, through increasing competitiveness Nepalese with help use technologies. In context, readiness industry important discuss. This study aims identify obstacles implementing Industries lies within 3 estates Kathmandu Valley i.e. Balaju, Patan Bhaktapur estates. Data collected data from all 287 running three questionnaire respondent interview using KoBo Collect Toolbox. Our finds half (49%) face hurdles while adopting Among them, major are lack infrastructure, skilled manpower, capital, poor implementation two third respondents think manageable. Political support, improvement mechanism long term strategy key factors support invest innovative