Adoption Strategy for Electrical and Electronics (E&E) Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Malaysia IR4.0 Perspective

Authors

  • Bavaani a/p Balakrishnan School of Technology Management and Logistics, College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia
  • Zakirah Othman School of Technology Management and Logistics, College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia
  • Mohamad Faizal Ahmad Zaidi School of Technology Management and Logistics, College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia
  • Wan Ahmad Jaafar Wan Yahaya Centre for Instructional Technology and Multimedia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37934/araset.28.3.2738

Keywords:

Industrial Revolution 4.0, E&E SMEs, manufacturing, IR4.0 adoption, Malaysia

Abstract

Many developing countries are facing difficulty in embracing Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR4.0) technologies as it creates a challenging business environment for its manufacturing sector. It is vital for Malaysia, a developing country, in ensuring their manufacturing sector particularly Electrical and Electronics (E&E) Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are not left behind in the IR4.0. It is the mission that every E&E SMEs fully adopt IR4.0 technologies and drive towards sustainable and competitive economic growth. In doing so, concerns regarding the human dimension on digitally driven transformation initiatives are much more needed to be studied. Leveraging the human capabilities to the IR4.0 technologies is not only upskilling themselves in the field that is related to IR4.0 technologies, but also will decentralizing operations and coordinate processes. The IR4.0 will enable operations and processes equipped with extremely automated and digitized machines and robots that will be the parts of production in future. As such, this paper provides an insight on the research gap, the development of the manufacturing sector focusing on the E&E SMEs in Malaysia, the importance of IR4.0 and finally the significance of this research that explains the IR4.0 adoption.

Author Biographies

Bavaani a/p Balakrishnan, School of Technology Management and Logistics, College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia

s901755@student.uum.edu.my

Zakirah Othman, School of Technology Management and Logistics, College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia

Mohamad Faizal Ahmad Zaidi, School of Technology Management and Logistics, College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia

mdfaizal@uum.edu.my

Wan Ahmad Jaafar Wan Yahaya, Centre for Instructional Technology and Multimedia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

wajwy@usm.my

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Published

2022-11-30

How to Cite

Bavaani a/p Balakrishnan, Zakirah Othman, Mohamad Faizal Ahmad Zaidi, & Wan Ahmad Jaafar Wan Yahaya. (2022). Adoption Strategy for Electrical and Electronics (E&E) Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Malaysia IR4.0 Perspective. Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, 28(3), 27–38. https://doi.org/10.37934/araset.28.3.2738

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