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A Bibliometric Analysis in Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing: What about the Sustainable Supply Chain?

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Focused Improvement (ManEX) Department, Unilever Foods Industrial España, S.L.U. Felipe del Rio Street (unnumbered), 48940 Leioa, Spain
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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Ingeniero Torres Quevedo Square, 1, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
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Sustainability 2020, 12(19), 7840; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12197840
Received: 31 August 2020 / Revised: 14 September 2020 / Accepted: 20 September 2020 / Published: 23 September 2020
During the last decade, different concepts, methodologies, and technologies have appeared, evolving industry toward what we know today as the fourth industrial evolution or Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and Advanced Manufacturing (AM). Based on both, Supply Chain (SC) is presented as the relevant process that sets the sustainability of manufacturing and, therefore, is defined as a key term in a sustainable approach to I4.0. However, there are no studies that analyze the evolution of science in the fields of I4.0 and AM together. In order to fill this gap, the aim of this research work is to analyze the tendencies of science research related to I4.0 and AM by conducting a bibliometric and network analysis and also to generate a new contribution through the analysis of scientific trends related to SC and Sustainable Supply Chain (SSC) within this scientific context, for the time span 2010–2019. The results show that the number of publications is growing exponentially and the most active countries are Germany and the U.S., with Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University being the most productive organization and Tecnologico de Monterrey the most collaborative. The analysis of the scientific terms allows us to conclude that the research field is in a growth phase, generating up to almost 4500 new terms in 2019. View Full-Text
Keywords: Industry 4.0; advanced manufacturing; supply chain; sustainable supply chain; bibliometric analysis; network analysis Industry 4.0; advanced manufacturing; supply chain; sustainable supply chain; bibliometric analysis; network analysis
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Borregan-Alvarado, J.; Alvarez-Meaza, I.; Cilleruelo-Carrasco, E.; Garechana-Anacabe, G. A Bibliometric Analysis in Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing: What about the Sustainable Supply Chain? Sustainability 2020, 12, 7840. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12197840

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Borregan-Alvarado J, Alvarez-Meaza I, Cilleruelo-Carrasco E, Garechana-Anacabe G. A Bibliometric Analysis in Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing: What about the Sustainable Supply Chain? Sustainability. 2020; 12(19):7840. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12197840

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Borregan-Alvarado, Jon, Izaskun Alvarez-Meaza, Ernesto Cilleruelo-Carrasco, and Gaizka Garechana-Anacabe. 2020. "A Bibliometric Analysis in Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing: What about the Sustainable Supply Chain?" Sustainability 12, no. 19: 7840. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12197840

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