“…It involves smart factories and intelligent technologies to achieve better efficiency in the value chain moving from dominant machine manufacturing to digital manufacturing (Haleem and Javaid, 2019;Oztemel and Gursev, 2020;Patil et al, 2020;Shrouf et al, 2014;Stock and Seliger, 2016;Tiwari, 2020). I-4.0 makes use of advanced technologies to transform manufacturing systems (Formentini and Romano, 2011;Shwartz-Asher et al, 2020) Mapping I-4.0 technologies-CE links with digital technologies (Kang et al, 2016;Pullan et al, 2011). I-4.0 aims to provide real-time information on production status, energy consumption, customer orders, machines and flow of materials with the help of technologies like 3D printing, artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, IoT and robotics that facilitate managerial decision-making (Carnabuci and Operti, 2013;de Sousa Jabbour et al, 2018;Farooq, 2020;Jorro-Aragoneses et al, 2019;Kyriakou et al, 2017;Lin, 2014;Lu, 2017;Mareea and Belkhatirb, 2015).…”