Dr. Harmish Bhatt

Abstract

The world has seen four industrial revolutions till the modern time, starting from industry 1.0 to industry 4.0. These industrial revolutions have emerged the new dimensions of human life. It has affected socio-economic aspect of each country in very deep manner. It has developed new horizons in the manufacturing sector of leading economies of the world. But along with these industrial revolutions new challenges also have been emerged on the surface. This leads to concentrate on the concept of sustainable development during manufacturing which cares about mainly environmental issues, natural resources conservation and energy efficiency. This paper relates the concept of industrial revolutions 1.0 to 4.0, with the sustainability of manufacturing sector. In this paper an attempt has been made to find out the presence of attributes of sustainability in manufacturing sector with different industrial revolutions. And it is established that industry 4.0 gives highest level of sustainability in the manufacturing sector among all industrial revolutions.

Keywords- Sustainability, Industrial revolutions, Industry 4.0, Manufacturing