Paranitharan K P, Ebenezer G, Balaji Venkataraman, Adham Khan M, Ramesh Babu T
Department of Corporate Planning Cell, TVS Sensing Solutions Private Limited, Madurai 625122, India.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil 626128, India.
Mater Today Proc. 2022;68:1225-1232. doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2022.06.009. Epub 2022 Jun 6.
The pandemic of Covid-19, an epidemic outbreak created many challenges and increased the demand for medical equipments, medicines, and related accessories and most of them had to be imported from abroad. The advanced information technology (Industry 4.0) was considered imperative to track and monitor the spread of the SARS-2 Virus that is Covid-19. A detailed review of literature is done to understand the challenges and the remedial action taken so far during the Covid-19 epidemic outbreak had been gone through using appropriate search engines and databases like Google-search, Science Direct, Scopus, Research Gate, and relevant blogs. The case reports were also considered in this study. We have found ten significant challenges (barriers) and identified several useful technology of industry 4.0 to control and manage the Covid-19 pandemic. This research paper is an attempt to examine and discuss the application of 4.0 technologies in containing the pandemic outbreak. Ten challenges were identified and those could be overcome by promptly applying appropriate technologies of industry 4.0 to control the spread of virus. These technologies help to educate and communicate the public and make them aware of the hazardous attack of Covid-19 virus when properly used.
新冠疫情这一流行病爆发带来了诸多挑战，增加了对医疗设备、药品及相关配件的需求，其中大部分都不得不从国外进口。先进的信息技术（工业4.0）被认为对于追踪和监测新冠病毒（SARS-CoV-2）的传播至关重要。通过使用谷歌搜索、科学Direct、Scopus、Research Gate等合适的搜索引擎和数据库以及相关博客，对文献进行了详细回顾，以了解新冠疫情爆发期间迄今所面临的挑战及采取的补救措施。本研究还考虑了病例报告。我们发现了十个重大挑战（障碍），并确定了工业4.0的几种有用技术来控制和管理新冠疫情。本研究论文旨在探讨和讨论4.0技术在遏制疫情爆发中的应用。确定了十个挑战，通过及时应用工业4.0的适当技术来控制病毒传播，这些挑战是可以克服的。这些技术有助于教育公众并与之沟通，在正确使用时使他们意识到新冠病毒的危险攻击。
