Contribution of Industry 4.0 Technologies in Adopting Metrology 4.0 in Manufacturing Industries

The digitalisationDigitalisation of metrological practices is paramount to ensure its full integration to enable various aspects, such as smart factories, online inspections, and real-timeReal-time calibration, among others, in the manufacturing industryManufacturing industries. The study explores various contributionsContribution of Industrial RevolutionIndustrial revolution (IR) (IR4.0) technologiesIR4.0 technologies in digitalising metrological services, the interface between Metrology 4.0 (M4.0)Metrology 4.0 (M4.0) and IR4.0IR4.0, and M4.0 adoption factorsM4.0 adoption factors. After the screening process, fifty-six scientific publications from Scopus, Open Science, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar databases were involved in the study. It was found that the development of M4.0Metrology 4.0 (M4.0) and IR4.0IR4.0 influence one another. For example, deploying inline metrologyMetrology is critical to ensure real-timeReal-time inspection, problem identification, and rectification to enable smart factories. Several critical factors were also identified to enable developing countries to adopt M4.0Metrology 4.0 (M4.0). The factors include the availability of a skilled workforce, infrastructure, management commitment, awareness of IR4.0 technologiesIR4.0 technologies, flexible organisation culture, investment capital, M4.0Metrology 4.0 (M4.0) standards, and norms for widespread adoption. Moreover, the study found several contributionsContribution of IR4.0 technologiesIR4.0 technologies in digitalising metrological practices in manufacturing industriesManufacturing industries, such as the inspection process, calibration of industrial measurement instruments, testing, traceability, and process monitoringProcess monitoring. Among the IR4.0 technologiesIR4.0 technologies, three major contributors to digitalising several metrological practices, including the Industrial Internet of ThingsInternet of Things (IoT) (IIoT), Big data analyticsBig data analytics, and artificial intelligenceArtificial Intelligence (AI). TechnologiesTechnologies such as cyber securityCyber security, autonomous systemsAutonomous system, and additive manufacturingAdditive manufacturing are essential to ensure M4.0Metrology 4.0 (M4.0) adoption, thus necessitating future studies on their contributionContribution to the adoption process. It is paramount for developing countries to set a systematic roadmap or framework that considers a holistic paradigm shift to a new metrologyMetrology approach than adopting solution-based metrological practices.