Adoption of Industry 4.0 in the TIC Industry: Systematic Review

Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) industry supports product production activities affecting nearly all aspects of our daily life. The industry ensures product compliance to a certain acceptance level and quality. Yet, the Industry is facing some problems with the advancement of technology and certification frameworks. To solve the problem, Industry 4.0 (I4.0), which has been positively supporting manufacturing industry can be solutions to problems in TIC industry. This paper studies the TIC industry and reviews on the concept of I4.0 from available marketing and academic research papers for further adoption of I4.0 to the industry. The review showed that key I4.0 enabling technologies can be greatly supporting the TIC industry with specially designed framework, which is worth for further design and investigation.