Smart Factories, Smarter Research: A Critical Review of Manufacturing 4.0 Technologies, Sustainability, and the Road to Industry 5.0
Industry 4.0 has produced one of the fastest-growing bodies of engineering and management research; much of this output remains siloed by technology domain. This study addresses that fragmentation through a structured critical review (a review-of-reviews), synthesising 70 peer-reviewed review articles and foundational...