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Impact of Industry 4.0 on Sustainability

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The emanation of the concept of Industry 4.0 has instigated disruptive and emergent acumen and advanced information technologies, enabling an ever more production efficiency and adeptness level. The technologies of Industry 4.0 have an enormous and gigantic potential of drastically influencing the environmental and social sustainability while accelerating distinguishing contributions in the sustainable development. In this paper, sustainability insinuations and applications of the technologies of Industry 4.0 has been profoundly scrutinized focusing numerous environmental, social and economic attributes by perceiving the alignment of the technologies of Industry 4.0 with sustainability. Although, the goal of integrating Industry 4.0 and sustainability is to enhance the environmental sustainability through the creation of an ecological support guaranteeing ever-higher and more-absolute environmental performance. The novelty of this paper mendacities in its considerate depiction of the technologies of Industry 4.0 and their significant integration with sustainability goalmouths for the creation of sustainable Industry 4.0 and assimilating the environmental sustainability protection.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 929)

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175-184

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https://doi.org/10.4028/p-EQ3fhV

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December 2025

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Danish Saleem Muhammad*, Wasif Muhammad, Fatima Anis

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Industry 4.0, Sustainability, Sustainable Development

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