Unlocking Industry 4.0: Leveraging Academic Collaborations for Career Advancement and Insights

N Palanivel Rajan, Dr. A. Vimala

Abstract: The advent of Industry 4.0often referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution has ushered in a paradigm shift across various industries. The current research explores the impact and adoption of Industry 4.0 principles in diverse sectors, highlighting its transformative effects on IT, manufacturing, and healthcare industries and to identify the industry insights on the development and services to academic institutions. The primary objective is to identify the industry and institutional adoption of industry 4.0 and with the mutual collaboration between the entities. A structured questionnaire is adopted as a tool for collecting the data. There were 82 questions framed under 09constructs for collecting the data from the respondents of industry CEOs, Managers, principals, Deans and Heads of the departments of the Institutions. The collected data was analyzed by using simple frequency test to know the literal knowledge on Industry and institution adoption on Industry 4.0 and their mutual collaboration.

Keywords: Industry 4.0 and its awareness, Infrastructure, Emerging Sectors, Curriculum Construction, Industry Collaboration, Training and Development, Work force skills and Global impact