Prioritizing the critical sustainable factors for the industrial revolution 4.0 in Malaysian seaports sector by using analytic hierarchy process

Abstract

The implementation of the Industry Revolution (IR) 4.0 has become one of the topical issues but limited studies have been carried out in maritime transportation industry. While many previous studies have addressed the success factor in various industry, this paper in the first attempt, provide the new body of knowledge by looking on sustainable aspect. The motivation behind this research is beyond the success stage where IR 4.0 application may be successfully implemented yet the sustainability after the implementation is remained unanswered. This paper studies the critical sustainable factors (CSFs) of IR 4.0 implementation in Malaysian seaport sector. The first objective is to identify the most significant CSFs that affecting the implementation of IR 4.0 towards Malaysian seaport sector through previous literatures. Secondly, to prioritizes the most dominant CSFs by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). A pairwise comparison-based questionnaires were used to collect the subjective judgments from 38 maritime domain experts. Potentially, there are six main dimensions and 36 CSFs which are identified as critical to IR 4.0 implementation. The result has shown that the economic value was ranked as the critical dimension and according to the global weights measurement. It highlighted that cost reduction through the interconnection factor is the most important that could encourage the industry to implement the IR 4.0. The outcome of this study will help to develop a critical sustainable framework to guide and sustain the implementation of IR 4.0 in the Malaysian seaport sector in decision-making method.