Intelligent technologies adoption and their effects on the performance of Indian manufacturing SMEs in modern era: An IRP analysis

In modern era pandemic has affected all sections of society. The norm of social distancing, non-availability of the workforce due to migration, lockdown and fluctuating demand are few challenges of this era. Competing in such a tough time is a challenging task for manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In the current scenario implementation of intelligent technologies can give advantages in the manufacturing sector. All challenges of the modern era can be dealt by adopting automatic technologies.In current research paper authors have identified challenges of implementing intelligent technologies and studied their effects on the performance of Indian manufacturing SMEs. For holistic analysis and ranking of challenges in comparison to performance, authors have used interpretive ranking process (IRP). These challenges can influence the others strategic decision on technologies implementation. From IRP analysis author observed that deficient sentience on intelligent technologies, deficient funding for research on intelligent technologies, deficient long term planning on intelligent technologies and deficient prompting from partners on intelligent technologies are highly ranked and dominating challenges.