Dan Tigalana

Papers

Total Citations

173

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About

Dan Tigalana is an emerging researcher whose work sits at the intersection of industrial transformation, emerging technologies, and digital innovation. His scholarship focuses primarily on the dynamics of Industry 4.0 and its successor paradigm, Industry 5.0, with particular attention to how disruptive technologies are reshaping major industrial sectors worldwide. Tigalana's most influential contribution, "Industry 4.0 Disruption and Its Neologisms in Major Industrial Sectors: A State of the Art" (2020), has garnered 149 citations, establishing him as a notable voice in the field. This work, alongside its companion paper examining Industry 4.0's hype and disruptive technologies (21 citations), grapples with the profound blurring of boundaries between the artificial and natural worlds — a conceptual challenge that defines the modern industrial era. His more recent work, "Digital Twin Technology Advancing Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 Across Sectors" (2025), signals a forward-looking trajectory, exploring how digital twin frameworks bridge present and future industrial revolutions. Collectively, Tigalana's research offers students and practitioners a valuable framework for understanding the unprecedented complexity and opportunity embedded in today's rapidly evolving technological landscape.