Transforming Malaysia’s Textile Industry: Sustainable Manufacturing in the Industry 5.0 Era

The textile sector is currently transforming. This shift has resulted from Industry 5.0 with the fourth Industrial Revolution. The Malaysian textile business has notably strengthened. This research explores how Industry 5.0 technologies, for instance, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) can benefit the textile sector. It studies how Industry 5.0 innovations and sustainable strategies are interwoven. The practices feature life cycle analysis along with circular design. This industry has received criticism for high resource consumption together with waste creation. This has negative environmental implications. Life cycle evaluation (LCA) has been useful. Life cycle evaluation assesses environmental effects across raw material acquisition toward product reprocessing. This assists in the reduction of ecological hazards and further aligns directly with Industry 5.0’s focus on data gathering plus data analysis. This information helps in asset management and overall planning processes. Eco-friendly design has been similarly critical. Environment design involves making goods produced with much less waste. This also shows reducing resource use plus making items that can be reused. Further, it focuses on correct waste disposal methods. Information services, finance, utilities, education, and healthcare are the five industries of the Industrial Society II based on the use of AI design tools. With the use of this tool, products are made to be more durable and recyclable, which increases the likelihood that they will benefit the human population by extending the lifespan of labor and enabling workers to take part in production processes in a sustainable environment. Because it promotes personal growth and job satisfaction, this also reduces waste and resource consumption. The circular economy, which was first proposed in the 1990s, is another important idea in guaranteeing sustainability. By including reader suggestions on how Malaysian textile companies can implement strategies like re-manufacturing, biodegradable materials, and recycled materials, the research’s sustainability can be improved. The system’s adoption of Industrial 5.0 technologies, which include improved goods tracking, sorting, and the advancement of recyclable materials, makes it possible. It offers industry examples and empirical data to illustrate how to incorporate sustainability into Industry 5. According to the findings, the government and industry must acknowledge some issues and that they are environmentally responsible, but they still want to minimize their environmental impact, which entails reducing the effects of the industry sectors in which consumers are also engaged. If this is true, Malaysia’s textile sector has the potential to emerge as a global leader in environmentally friendly production.