The findings obtained through these research objectives will pave new agendas towards the medium-range economy renaissance, resilient digital ecosystems, and human-centered integrated intelligence. More in-depth exploration of the goal-specific research objectives awaits the research report. The main research gap and questions – and concomitant research approach, paradigm, and methodologies – framing the subsequent sections of the paper are substantiated by these objectives' delineation from the research questions. Practical implications and directions for prospective areas of techno-social innovation studies building upon the findings are outlined to conclude the paper. The aims, once accomplished, offer a symbiotic relationship with the research questions that catalyze interest in a domain that has hitherto been largely neglected in Industry 4.0 literature. These aims become the guiding lights surmounting the destination of AIoT in being a subversive innovation in developing and deploying discrete, reconfigurable, and near-continuous Industry 4.0 auxiliary open smart manufacturing.
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