Iran’s first place in 4D printed articles among Islamic countries – Mehr news agency RCO News Agency

According to the Mehr news agency, citing the Institute for Citation and Monitoring of Science and Technology of the Islamic World (ISC), Dr. Ali Naibi, Vice President of Technology and Innovation of ISC, said: Turkey, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Malaysia have the highest number of degrees with 1873, 1625, and 1611 degrees, respectively. They have produced scientific products in the fifth generation technologies of the industry.

He said: The Islamic Republic of Iran has taken the first place among the countries of the Islamic world in the field of advanced technologies in the field of 4D printing.

Dr. Ali Naibi, Vice President of Technology and Innovation of ISC Institute, said: referring to the importance of the fifth generation of industry, he stated: The fifth generation of industry is rooted in the concept of the fourth generation industry, and it is based on the study of the progress of countries in the first decade of the 21st century and their ability to create lasting effects in the decades The future pays.

He added: This generation of industry not only focuses on meeting economic needs, but also pays special attention to environmental needs and emphasizes green production as a key priority.

Naybi announced: The fifth generation industry aims to fulfill the promises of advanced digitization, big data and artificial intelligence, and seeks to strengthen the role of these technologies in response to new needs and emerging requirements in the industrial, social and environmental fields.

He emphasized: This approach will include extensive use of data and artificial intelligence to increase production flexibility and create more powerful value chains in the era of digital transformation.

Naybi further pointed to the key technologies in this field and said: In the fifth generation of the industry, technologies such as 4D printing, collaborative robots (cobots), augmented and virtual reality, cognitive computing, digital twin and additive manufacturing are used.

According to him; These technologies design production processes in such a way that humans play a central role in them and have the ability to adjust and optimize these processes based on their needs. This transformation will create a platform for the progress of various industries and increase creativity and efficiency in production.

Emphasizing the importance of the fifth generation technologies of the industry, Naybi said: the investigation and analysis of the scientific status of these technologies among the leading global and Islamic countries in a 10-year period has an important role in the development of this field.

Referring to the situation of the Islamic Republic of Iran in some areas of fifth generation technologies, he added: despite the appropriate progress in the development of technology and products, due to some limitations, the amount of dissemination of Iran’s scientific products in the international arena has been limited.

The Vice President of Technology and Innovation of ISC Institute said: As shown in Figure (1), the growth trend of research conducted in the field of fourth and fifth generation technologies of the industry is increasing from 2014 to 2023. According to the results obtained from the Web of Science database, 1092305 researches have been conducted in the field of fourth generation technologies of the industry, and it has reached 53823 researches in 2014 to 155081 researches in 2023. Also, 159 thousand 243 researches have been conducted in the field of fifth generation technologies of the industry and it has reached 25278 researches in 2023 from 6 thousand 380 researches in 2014.

Figure 1- The number of published researches in the field of the fourth and fifth generation industry based on the Web of Science database 2014-2023

He continued: As can be seen in Table (1), the countries of Turkey, Islamic Republic of Iran and Malaysia have had the most scientific productions in fifth generation technologies with 1873, 1625 and 1611 degrees respectively.

Table 1- Leading Islamic countries in scientific productions of the fifth generation industry

Table No. 2 shows the ranking and number of scientific productions of the world’s leading countries in the fifth generation technologies of the industry.

Table 2. The position of the scientific productions of the fifth generation technologies of the industry of the world’s leading countries in the period of 2014-2023

He continued: According to new reports, the Islamic Republic of Iran has managed to record significant achievements in the field of advanced technologies. One of the noteworthy points is Iran’s world ranking in 4D printing. In this technology, Iran has taken the first place among the countries of the Islamic world by obtaining the 11th global rank and has performed better than other Islamic countries.

In other new technologies, Iran has achieved significant ranks:

• 23rd global ranking in additive manufacturing technologies
• 29th global ranking in cognitive computing
• 37th global rank in the field of virtual reality
• 38th global ranking in digital twin technology
• 42nd global ranking in augmented reality technology
• 60th global ranking in the field of collaborative robot technology

These ranks show Iran’s continuous progress in technological fields and the country’s growing position at the international level.

Table No. 3 shows the rank and number of scientific productions of the leading Islamic countries in the fifth generation technologies of the industry.

Table 3. The position of the scientific productions of the fifth generation technologies of the industry of leading Islamic countries in the period of 2014-2023