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Table 1

Barriers affecting the implementation of I4.0

No.	Barriers	Descriptions	References
1	High-level investment	To build I4.0 infrastructure, organizations must spend a large amount of money on capital	Calabrese et al. (2021), Chen et al. (2021), Bhuiyan et al. (2020)
2	Inadequate knowledge management and data knowledge	Requirement for far more resilient knowledge management solutions is driven by the inadequacy of the present systems to process data in real time	Tripathi and Gupta (2021), Rumi et al. (2020)
3	Lack of organizational openness	The company’s policy on sharing information and content with its workers	Cimini et al. (2021), Rumi et al. (2020)
4	Lack of digital communication	All levels of management and nonmanagerial staff must communicate effectively and continuously	Yadav et al. (2020a), Moktadir et al. (2018)
5	Lack of skills and aptitude	Employee skill requirements for adopting I4.0 technologies	Calabrese et al. (2021), Stentoft et al. (2020)
6	Lack of motivation	Reasons behind the company’s shift toward recycling and environmentally friendly production	Kumar et al. (2020a), Shabur et al. (2021)
7	Organizational culture	Organizational norms and routines that may influence the transition to I4.0	Tripathi and Gupta (2021)
8	I4.0 training	Educating people to become experts in I4.0 technologies	Kumar et al. (2020a)
9	Resistance to change	Leadership style and strategy of upper- and lower level managers throughout I4.0 implementation	Kumar et al. (2022), Joshi et al. (2022), Bhuiyan et al. (2020)
10	Effective change management	Capacity of the organization to plan and execute a seamless upgrade to I4.0 from legacy systems	Stentoft et al. (2020)
11	Stakeholders’ awareness of I4.0 technologies	Meaningful adoption of I4.0 technologies depends on the capacity of many parties to see their value	Kumar et al. (2022), Yadav et al. (2020b), Bhuiyan et al. (2020)
12	Lack of clear comprehension about IoT benefits	Technically, IoT devices should result in potential financial advantages for businesses once completely integrated	Kumar et al. (2020b)
13	Inadequate standardization efforts	Equipment makers must implement detailed, generally acknowledged standards to promote I4.0-enabled componentry development and use	Stentoft et al. (2020)
14	Lack of regulatory framework	Organizations must have tougher internal standards, codes of behavior, and processes where legislation pertaining to human resources, data protection, computer networks and user experience become more critical	Calabrese et al. (2021), Bhuiyan et al. (2020)
15	Lack of digital strategy	It is becoming more and more crucial to develop and implement digital strategies that take into account both the vertical and horizontal axes of the value chain	Weerabahu et al. (2022)

No.	Barriers	Descriptions	References
1	High-level investment	To build I4.0 infrastructure, organizations must spend a large amount of money on capital	Calabrese et al. (2021), Chen et al. (2021), Bhuiyan et al. (2020)
2	Inadequate knowledge management and data knowledge	Requirement for far more resilient knowledge management solutions is driven by the inadequacy of the present systems to process data in real time	Tripathi and Gupta (2021), Rumi et al. (2020)
3	Lack of organizational openness	The company’s policy on sharing information and content with its workers	Cimini et al. (2021), Rumi et al. (2020)
4	Lack of digital communication	All levels of management and nonmanagerial staff must communicate effectively and continuously	Yadav et al. (2020a), Moktadir et al. (2018)
5	Lack of skills and aptitude	Employee skill requirements for adopting I4.0 technologies	Calabrese et al. (2021), Stentoft et al. (2020)
6	Lack of motivation	Reasons behind the company’s shift toward recycling and environmentally friendly production	Kumar et al. (2020a), Shabur et al. (2021)
7	Organizational culture	Organizational norms and routines that may influence the transition to I4.0	Tripathi and Gupta (2021)
8	I4.0 training	Educating people to become experts in I4.0 technologies	Kumar et al. (2020a)
9	Resistance to change	Leadership style and strategy of upper- and lower level managers throughout I4.0 implementation	Kumar et al. (2022), Joshi et al. (2022), Bhuiyan et al. (2020)
10	Effective change management	Capacity of the organization to plan and execute a seamless upgrade to I4.0 from legacy systems	Stentoft et al. (2020)
11	Stakeholders’ awareness of I4.0 technologies	Meaningful adoption of I4.0 technologies depends on the capacity of many parties to see their value	Kumar et al. (2022), Yadav et al. (2020b), Bhuiyan et al. (2020)
12	Lack of clear comprehension about IoT benefits	Technically, IoT devices should result in potential financial advantages for businesses once completely integrated	Kumar et al. (2020b)
13	Inadequate standardization efforts	Equipment makers must implement detailed, generally acknowledged standards to promote I4.0-enabled componentry development and use	Stentoft et al. (2020)
14	Lack of regulatory framework	Organizations must have tougher internal standards, codes of behavior, and processes where legislation pertaining to human resources, data protection, computer networks and user experience become more critical	Calabrese et al. (2021), Bhuiyan et al. (2020)
15	Lack of digital strategy	It is becoming more and more crucial to develop and implement digital strategies that take into account both the vertical and horizontal axes of the value chain	Weerabahu et al. (2022)

Source(s): Authors’ own contributions