Analysis of Industrial Changes and Enabling Technologies in Industry 4.0

The challenges brought about by the fourth industrial revolution are the key point of public and private research institutions. An excellent knowledge of industrial changes and enabling technologies in Industry 4.0 context becomes fundamental in the manufacturing sector in order to project an education and training governance model. This paper proposes a procedure based on three techniques synergistically applied in order to analyze the problem for the Adriatic-Ionian areas: i) a desk study to investigate the problem and define the involved phenomena; ii) the application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to obtain numerical indicators of the importance of the considered phenomena in the fourth industrial revolution; iii) a set of interviews to manufacturing companies based on suitable "interview form" in order to validate the obtained numerical indicators.