Abstract
A number of challenges has been identified in the manufacturing sector in the past three decades. The industrialized uprising is currently known as the industry 4.0. Consequently, the concept of industry 4.0 has become the buzz word amongst scholars and industry practitioners. Despite the fact that the concept of industry 4.0 is attending high level of significance in the western and eastern countries i.e. America, Asia, etc., due to its ability of smoothing of business environment, in Africa, particularly in South Africa the integration and adoption of industry 4.0 concept is facing several challenges. To date, over the past decade many studies has been conducted to investigate the benefit of implementing industry 4.0 in manufacturing companies at global level. However very few studies have been conducted in the South African SMMEs manufacturing industry 4.0 perspective, thus, the overall goal of this paper is to fill these gaps by means of critically analyzing studies that were conducted or develop in the field of industry 4.0 over the past decade. This segment is too experiencing encounters that face unceasingly altering requirements of customer at an international level, pleasing into justification that they essential familiarize to the fluctuations to safeguard tenable. The manufacturing space is progressing at an effective means of production and the adoption of novel expertise.