Prioritizing the Factors Affecting the Application of Industry 4.0 Technology in Electrical Appliance Manufacturing using a Fuzzy Analytical Network Process Approach

The fourth industrial revolution is a technological advancement that posing new challenges in manufacturing and services. Industries must adopt innovations to create value-added for their products services gain competitive advantage increase production efficiency. Therefore, this research aims study the factors influence application of Industry 4.0 technology managing electrical appliance by focusing on five major factors: internet things, cloud manufacturing, big data analytics, additive cyber-physical systems, which can be further subdivided into 23 sub-factors. fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) technique used prioritize develop criteria selecting appropriate applications manufacturing. Besides, questionnaire based FANP approach collect from 82 manufacturers calculate weight each factor. Consequently, Internet Things ranked first, followed analytics While results have indicated importance sub-factors as data-driven, collection, tracking, monitoring, automation, respectively. benefit appliances use criterion implementing long-term effectiveness.