Moving from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0: What Are the Implications for Smart Logistics?

Abstract

Given the importance of human centricity, resilience, and sustainability, the emerging concept of Industry 5.0 has pushed forward the research frontier of the technology-focused Industry 4.0 to a smart and harmonious socio-economic transition driven by both humans and technologies, where the role of the human in the technological transformation is predominantly focused on. Several studies discuss the impacts of disruptive technologies on smart logistics operations in Industry 4.0. However, since Industry 5.0 is a new concept and still in its infancy, its implications for smart logistics have not been discussed. To fill this gap, this paper presents a comparative bibliometric analysis to show the connection and differences between Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 and their implications for smart logistics. A thorough content analysis is then given to illustrate the features of smart logistics in Industry 5.0 concerning four areas, namely intelligent automation, intelligent devices, intelligent systems, and intelligent materials. The results show that, compared with Industry 4.0, the research of smart logistics in Industry 5.0 puts more focus on the interaction between humans and technology in the digital transition, with the increasing adoption of collaborative technologies, e.g., human–machine systems, collaborative robots, and human–robot collaboration. Finally, a research agenda is proposed for identifying future research directions of smart logistics in Industry 5.0.

Towards the smart and sustainable transformation of Reverse Logistics 4.0: a conceptualization and research agenda

“… Human-centricity and Reverse Logistics 5.0 : Even though the opportunities for improving sustainability and circular economy have been discussed, Industry 4.0 is primarily a technology-driven paradigm shift. The recently proposed concept of Industry 5.0 has led to a changing focus from technology to human-centricity, resilience, and sustainability in the transition of many sectors (Frederico 2021 ;Jafari et al 2022 ), which may result in new research directions for smart reverse logistics transformation. For instance, Industry 4.0 focuses on the development of autonomous solutions to replace human workers.…”

“…For instance, Industry 4.0 focuses on the development of autonomous solutions to replace human workers. However, on the other hand, Industry 5.0 emphasizes the harmony between humans and technology, where technologies are used not to replace humans but to better help human workers and create new job opportunities (Jafari et al 2022 ). In this regard, future research is invited to further investigate the human-centric, resilient, and sustainable transformation of Reverse Logistics 5.0 .…”

5.0 as a New Stakeholder Responsibility

“…The concept of Industry 5.0 is proposed to complement the existing Industry 4.0 in order to better meet the industrial and technological goals without compromising the socio-economic and environmental performance. These are better considered and embedded in the smart logistics through the inclusion of humanrobot collaboration, collaborative robots, and man-machine systems (Jafari et al, 2022). For Carayannis & Morawska-Jancelewicz (2022a), the concept of Industry 5.0 is not a simple chronological continuation or alternative to Industry 4.0 paradigm.…”

Toward Better Food Security Using Concepts from Industry 5.0

“…Akundi et al [ 25 ] presented a thorough work on current research trends and analysis in Industry 5.0. Furthermore, Nahavandi [ 26 ] explained the key features and concerns of Industry 5.0 and its effect in manufacturing systems, whereas Jafari et al [ 27 ] discussed the implications of Industry 5.0 for smart logistics. Despite this growing interest in using the technologies of Industry 5.0 for various application domains, most of the existing works, to the best of our knowledge, have not discussed their use in food security.…”