The Role of Renewable Energy Sources and Industry 4.0 Focus for Africa: A Review

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

 

i.                 Is this work about industry 4.0 or the contribution of Renewable energy resources in 4.0 revolution for Africa Development? This need to be clearly distinguished in the manuscript.

 ii.                   The authors should include a section title “Way forward for Africa Involvement in Industry 4.0”

In this section, the authors should discussed their review findings and provide suggestion for Africa participation in 4.0 and future industrial revolution. 

iii.                 All Review and suggestions has been implemented in the attached file, authors should clearly address them and provide a point-by-point response to each, in a rebuttal form.

 

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Response to reviewers’ comments

Manuscript ID applsci-2087340

Title: The role of renewable energy sources and industry 4.0 focus for Africa: A review

To the Editor:

We are grateful to the reviewers of this manuscript for their valuable suggestions, contributions, and comments. We believe that their inputs/suggestions/comments have tremendously improved the quality of our manuscript. Point-to-point responses have been made to address the reviewers’ comments, and corrections based on these comments have been included in the revised manuscript, and are shown using red fonts for easy identification

Reviewer #1

Comment 1

Moderate English changes required

Response to reviewer:

Thanks to the reviewer for highlighting this points. The typological and grammatical errors have been corrected. Several sentences were also rephrased.

 

Comment 2

Is this work about industry 4.0 or the contribution of Renewable energy resources in 4.0 revolution for Africa Development? This need to be clearly distinguished in the manuscript.

 

Response to reviewer:

Many thanks to the reviewer for these observations. The work is about available renewable energy sources in Africa and how it can contribute to the implementation of industry 4.0 in Africa. We have made changes in the revised manuscript to this effect

 

 Comment 3

The authors should include a section title “Way forward for Africa Involvement in Industry 4.0”

In this section, the authors should discussed their review findings and provide suggestion for Africa participation in 4.0 and future industrial revolution. 

Response to the reviewer

Many thanks to the reviewer for this suggestion. We have added the recommended section to the revised manuscript with appropriate suggestions and recommendation as seen in section 4

 

REVIEWER #2

Comment 1

Extensive editing of English language and style required

Response to the reviewer

The revised manuscript have been edited for English language and style accordingly

Comment 2

The paper contains a lot of common sense descriptions in professional fields, which can be easily found on Wikipedia. As an academic paper, I personally don't think it is necessary to spend too much time on popular science description. For example, in the second part of Industry 4.0 in Africa, used too many descriptions when referring to AI, 3D printing and cloud computing (lines 135 to 160), and there are similar situations later in the article.

Response to the reviewer

Many thanks to the reviewer for this invaluable observation and suggestion. The paper has been revised and unnecessary repetition removed

Comment 3

Compared with solar energy and wind energy, etc. Human Movement is not suitable for the third part, maybe can make a separate section.

Response to the reviewer

Again we appreciate the reviewers comment on this point. Human movement in this section as a renewable energy source as section three is all about renewable energy sources

Comment 4

 The conclusion of this article is too thin to give me a feeling of watching science and education films. This conclusion is too common. It can be used in most countries in the world. Maybe the paper can add African elements to the conclusion.

Response to the reviewer

Sincere thanks to the reviewer for this observation, the conclusion have been improved accordingly.

Comment 5

 The paper should cite more relevant high-level journal papers.

 

Response to the reviewer

Again many thanks to the reviewer for this suggestion. Many high-level journal with relevant work were added to the revised manuscript.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Here are some things to pay attention to in this article: 

1. The paper contains a lot of common sense descriptions in professional fields, which can be easily found on Wikipedia. As an academic paper, I personally don't think it is necessary to spend too much time on popular science description. For example, in the second part of Industry 4.0 in Africa, used too many descriptions when referring to AI, 3D printing and cloud computing (lines 135 to 160), and there are similar situations later in the article.2

2. Compared with solar energy and wind energy, etc. Human Movement is not suitable for the third part, maybe can make a separate section.

3. The conclusion of this article is too thin to give me a feeling of watching science and education films. This conclusion is too common. It can be used in most countries in the world. Maybe the paper can add African elements to the conclusion.

4. The paper should cite more relevant high-level journal papers.

Author Response

Response to reviewers’ comments

Manuscript ID applsci-2087340

Title: The role of renewable energy sources and industry 4.0 focus for Africa: A review

To the Editor:

We are grateful to the reviewers of this manuscript for their valuable suggestions, contributions, and comments. We believe that their inputs/suggestions/comments have tremendously improved the quality of our manuscript. Point-to-point responses have been made to address the reviewers’ comments, and corrections based on these comments have been included in the revised manuscript, and are shown using red fonts for easy identification

REVIEWER #2

Comment 1

Extensive editing of English language and style required

Response to the reviewer

The revised manuscript have been edited for English language and style accordingly

Comment 2

The paper contains a lot of common sense descriptions in professional fields, which can be easily found on Wikipedia. As an academic paper, I personally don't think it is necessary to spend too much time on popular science description. For example, in the second part of Industry 4.0 in Africa, used too many descriptions when referring to AI, 3D printing and cloud computing (lines 135 to 160), and there are similar situations later in the article.

Response to the reviewer

Many thanks to the reviewer for this invaluable observation and suggestion. The paper has been revised and unnecessary repetition removed

Comment 3

Compared with solar energy and wind energy, etc. Human Movement is not suitable for the third part, maybe can make a separate section.

Response to the reviewer

Again we appreciate the reviewers comment on this point. Human movement in this section as a renewable energy source as section three is all about renewable energy sources

Comment 4

 The conclusion of this article is too thin to give me a feeling of watching science and education films. This conclusion is too common. It can be used in most countries in the world. Maybe the paper can add African elements to the conclusion.

Response to the reviewer

Sincere thanks to the reviewer for this observation, the conclusion have been improved accordingly.

Comment 5

 The paper should cite more relevant high-level journal papers.

 

Response to the reviewer

Again many thanks to the reviewer for this suggestion. Many high-level journal with relevant work were added to the revised manuscript.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Significant changes have been made. Final check on the figures quality is required.