Industry 4.0 determinants and competitive advantage INTRODUCTION The 4.0 sector aims to achieve a level of high performance, productivity, and automation (Ślusarczyk, 2018; Thames & Schaefer, 2016). Industry 4.0 plays a major and important role in the manufacturing sector; directly linked to efficiency (Imran et al., 2018; Rüßmann, et al., 2015). The core scope of Industry 4.0 incorporates advanced analytics and Internet-based technologies, which combine both competitive adva

Impact of industry 4.0 on Malaysian manufacturing in Refractories As a trading nation, Malaysia continues to seek new ways to grow its market and export highly improved products. The Southeast Asian country has fully developed its manufacturing sectors over the past few years, making it the world’s leading market. This is what made Malaysia the largest industrial nation. The country’s manufacturing industry has undergone a rapid evolution in recent decades, from scale product

The COVID-19 epidemic has turned into a health, economic, and humanitarian crisis at an unprecedented rate. The situation in Malaysia is reinforced by the fact that the Government came into power only at the beginning of March 2020 and is already facing a major debt crisis, financial crisis, falling oil prices and the effects of trade and tourism conflicts since the global closure. Prior to the epidemic, Government gained international recognition for its efforts in the field