Sustainability as a key value proposition - a literature review and potential pathways
This paper presents an academic exploration of the shifting landscape of business models toward greater sustainability, considering the environmental, social, and economic dimensions. The United Nations has emphasized the need for companies to ...
Complexity of green innovation in manufacturing: a case in a foundry
Nowadays the improvement of environmental performances is one of aims of innovation in factories, to implement the sustainable development. For the achievement of the environmental goals, a firm can follow Green Innovation, namely developing ...
An Optimization Model for Smart and Sustainable Distributed Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling
Smart production scheduling has gained significant attention due to advancements in industrial informatics and technologies that enable the monitoring, control, and adaptation of task scheduling in response to disruptive events. These events can ...
Transfer of Logistics Optimizations to Material Flow Resource Optimizations using Quantum Computing
The complexity of industrial logistics and manufacturing processes increases constantly. As a key enabling technology of the upcoming decades, quantum computing is expected to play a crucial role in solving arising combinatorial optimization ...
Proactive Relocation Decision-Making in a Multinational Manufacturing Network
Recent years have been demanding for manufacturing companies with a global footprint – the constant need to evaluate and re-evaluate manufacturing networks and sourcing due to ongoing crises e.g., coronavirus shutdowns, changing customs tariffs, ...
Multi-Autonomous Mobile Robot traffic Management Based on Layered Costmaps and a modified Dijkstra's Algorithm
In recent times, the use of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) has increased in many industries. As more AMRs roam the same area, traffic management becomes essential to prevent congestion and deadlocks. In related work, traffic management is often ...
Exploring Time-Based Characteristics of the E-Car Market for Effective Market Segmentation
In recent years, the electric car (e-car) market has seen noticeable growth attributed to technological advancements and new research offering multiple innovation possibilities for businesses, which should effectively bring new technologies to ...
Efficient Rollout of a Dynamic Optimization Algorithm
A successful deployment process of a complex software solution, such as optimization algorithms in a dynamic production environment is an extremely complicated and time-consuming task. Over this, the acceptance by those employees where the ...
Are rules for social sustainability in supply chains strong enough? Defining the “nullification principle”
In recent years, the concept of sustainability has gained increasing prominence in global discourse, with particular emphasis on environmental and economic aspects. However, an equally critical dimension often overlooked is social sustainability, ...
Deep Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Defect Inspection in Antenna Assembly
Regardless of the tremendous technological development in manufacturing processes and equipment, assembly errors are an emerging concern. Hence, quality inspection software is of high importance for capturing defects at the source and preventing ...
Industry 4.0 in the Context of Agribusiness: A Systematic Literature Review
This study presents a systematic literature review that examines how the Brazilian agribusiness is adopting Industry 4.0 technologies. The Scopus and WoS databases were utilized for this purpose. The results demonstrate that these technologies ...
Supply Chain Management Strategies Approach for the UK Textile Industry
This study focuses on the specific types of supply chain strategies throughout the UK textile industry as extant literature has either emphasised on the fashion apparel industry or on sub-industry of fast fashion. A combination of normalised local ...
A Hybrid Predictive Maintenance Solution for Fault Classification and Remaining Useful Life Estimation of Bearings Using Low-Cost Sensor Hardware
In recent years, predictive maintenance tasks, especially for bearings, have become increasingly important. Solutions for these use cases concentrate on the classification of faults and the estimation of the Remaining Useful Life (RUL). As of ...
Exploring the relationship between Project Cost Deployment and Industry 4.0 through an industrial application in an Engineer-to-Order environment
he literature on Lean Manufacturing has predominantly emphasized mass production and batch systems, leaving a considerable knowledge gap regarding the challenges and considerations specific to implementing Lean principles in Engineer-to-Order (ETO)...
Digital Datasheet model: enhancing value of AI digital platforms
Digital AI platforms/marketplaces play a pivotal role in providing artificial intelligence applications for the manufacturing market. However, existing research on how AI platforms integrate and deploy AI solutions is limited. Additionally, Europe ...
Exploring the key success factors: A case study of a digital marketplace platform for Brazilian small farmers
- Gladys Milena Berns Carvalho do Prado,
- Elizabete Catapan,
- Cinthya Mônica da Silva Zanuzzi,
- Florinda Matos,
- Paulo Maurício Selig
Small agricultural businesses are exposed to global competitive paradigms, and digital marketing platforms have a significant social and economic impact on their competitiveness. An analysis of current product marketplace platforms reveals that ...
Digitization Workflow for Data Mining in Production Technology applied to a Feed Axis of a CNC Milling Machine
Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance applications receive ongoing scientific attention in production technology. Larger companies, especially machine and component manufacturers, already offer related products. Small and medium-sized ...
The emotional metaverse: exploring the benefits of predicting emotion from 3D avatars
With the metaverse here to stay, we are seeing ever more advances in capability. This includes the ability to incorporate real-time body and facial animation, so that personalised avatars can display our changing expressions, allowing those we ...
Sensor and data: key elements of human-machine interaction for human-centric smart manufacturing
The proposal of Industry 5.0 has made sustainability, human-centric and resilience the core of digital manufacturing, which also puts forward new requirements for the human-machine interaction (HMI) paradigm in human-centric smart manufacturing (...
Hybrid prognosis of drill-bits based on direct inspection
Within the paradigm of industry 5.0, manufacturing systems are seeking for human-centred production, where the operator finds high-level supervision tasks. In this context, low-level decision making should be performed by machines themselves. In ...
Distributed Artificial Intelligence Application in Agri-food Supply Chains 4.0
Supply Chain 4.0 is characterized by various factors, including seamless integration and connectivity, the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, AI participation, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), flexibility, adaptability, and customer-centricity ...
Employee Acceptance for AI Based Knowledge Transfer: Conception, Realization and Results of an ELSI+UX Workshop
German companies are currently facing challenges like the Demographic Change. Due to the retirement of many long-standing employees, companies risk losing tacit experimental know-how. This specific type of knowledge is difficult to capture and ...
Digital transformation under uncertainty – market value effects of early Industry 4.0 innovation projects
In the initial phase of Industry 4.0 between 2011–2016, companies have been driven to invest massively in the development of digital innovation, which is linked to uncertainty. In particular, studying the interrelationship between digital ...
Modeling and simulation: A comparative and systematic statistical review
Modeling and simulation took a considerable part of both professional and educational fields during the past few years. With the emergence of new technologies, several modeling and simulation tools, languages and softwares were developed in ...
Trusted Evidences on the Digital Transformation of Classic Cars Restoration
Classic automobiles are a crucial component of the automotive industry, representing specific eras’ historical, and technological accomplishments. However, to be regarded as masterpieces, these must be conserved in mint condition or restored ...
Developing self-adaptive microservices
The modern development approaches are establishing microservices and cloud computing as major trends to benefit the technological community. However, these technologies are often prone to multiple issues regarding parallel development by numerous ...
Electronic performance monitoring framework to quantify unhealthy and unsafe on-site behaviours
Health and Safety (H&S) should be a significant concern in construction projects. The quantification of the work injury accidents started with work A. W. Heinrich (1931), passing per Frank E. Bird Jr. (1969) to a study by ConocoPhillips Marine (...
Acceptance Level of Drone Delivery among Malaysian Consumers
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is the formal term for a drone that can operate without the pilot, or at ground level, the pilot can use the control operating systems. Today, some companies in Malaysia have begun to test drone parcel delivery, but ...
An NFC application for the process mapping automation for SMEs
In the past decade, the focus on Process Reengineering (PR) and innovation management has driven enterprises to explore how new technologies can reshape their business models and redefine their operational processes. Business Process Management, ...