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Advanced Industrial Engineering: Innovation, Risk and Flexible Manufacturing

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 20534

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Dr. Vladimíra Biňasová

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Zilina, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia
Interests: advanced industrial engineering
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Prof. Dr. Branislav Micieta

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Interests: advanced industrial engineering
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Advanced industrial engineering (AIE) is a major direction of current and future technological development and is a strategy of European development and research. AIE arises from the needs of applying new innovative technologies to create a better position for production companies in a global and knowledge-based society. Special attention is continuously given to the problems of new manufacturing technologies and modern conceptions of manufacturing systems that allow us to make high-quality products with a high level of effectiveness and a proper level of flexibility. Given the importance of sustainable development and the rapid development of new literature in this field, this Special Issue will enrich the literature with a wide range of discussions, contributing to the development of further research in the field of advanced industrial engineering, sustainable development in industry and other relevant topics.

Therefore, we would like to invite you to submit your research paper to the Topic “Advanced Industrial Engineering: Innovation, Risk and Flexible Manufacturing ”.

This Topic seeks high-quality works focusing on the following:

  • Management;
  • Sustainable development;
  • Industrial assembly technologies;
  • Manufacturing engineering of composite materials;
  • Manufacturing systems design for industrial applications;
  • Paradigms of modern manufacturing system designs;
  • Flexible and focused manufacturing systems;
  • Reconfigurable manufacturing systems and other manufacturing concepts of the future;
  • Advanced industrial engineering;
  • Manufacturing system capacity balancing;
  • Sustainable material-handling systems.

Dr. Vladimíra Biňasová
Prof. Dr. Branislav Micieta
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable development
  • Industry 4.0
  • innovation
  • management
  • industrial engineering
  • green knowledge
  • advanced industrial engineering
  • management
  • economics

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Multi-Perspective Approach to Building Team Resilience in Project Management—A Case Study in Indonesia
by Mohammad Hamsal, Diena Dwidienawati, Mohammad Ichsan, Ahmad Syamil and Bambang Trigunarsyah
Sustainability 2022, 14(20), 13137; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013137 - 13 Oct 2022
Cited by 4 | Viewed by 2367
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Project management teams have to deal with risks and uncertainties from the project portfolio level to the individual level. Furthermore, project complexity adds to the challenges faced by the project management team. Moreover, projects are performed by project management teams comprising various individuals [...] Read more.
Project management teams have to deal with risks and uncertainties from the project portfolio level to the individual level. Furthermore, project complexity adds to the challenges faced by the project management team. Moreover, projects are performed by project management teams comprising various individuals from different backgrounds. While they perform their project tasks, they have to face dynamics in the projects that lead to major challenges or stress and bounce back from negative experiences to be less likely to experience the detrimental effects of intimidating, uncertain situations. This study aims to show the influence of multi-perspective factors on team resilience and to confirm how team resilience influences team performance. A descriptive, quantitative study was conducted to test the six hypotheses of the study. Data collected through purposive sampling and snowball techniques were analyzed using a structural equation model with SmartPLS software version 3.2.9. The finding shows that individual resilience from the individual perspective, team resources, team interactions from the team perspective and organizational practice all have a positive and significant influence on team resilience, but transformational leadership does not. Team resilience has a positive, significant relationship with team performance. Team resilience appears to have had a strong and significant effect on team performance in multiple industries in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research implications and suggestions for future research are also given. Full article
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Digital Skills as a Significant Factor of Human Resources Development
by Jana Stofkova, Adela Poliakova, Katarina Repkova Stofkova, Peter Malega, Matej Krejnus, Vladimira Binasova and Naqibullah Daneshjo
Sustainability 2022, 14(20), 13117; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013117 - 13 Oct 2022
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Digital technologies play a key role in reviving the world economy. The EU has pledged to combine recovery support with resilient digital transformation. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the lack of digitization in Slovakia and the shortcomings of digital skills in citizens and communication [...] Read more.
Digital technologies play a key role in reviving the world economy. The EU has pledged to combine recovery support with resilient digital transformation. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the lack of digitization in Slovakia and the shortcomings of digital skills in citizens and communication with institutions. Digital skills are important and should form part of educational policy. ICT skills can help people succeed in the labour market and improve communication with public administration. Digitization and globalization increase the importance to communicate through the Internet, applications, and other e-based gadgets. Digital skills are one of the essential parts of e-Government, so people can use e-Government services in communication with public administration. The current crisis is affecting citizens’ use of online services. Indices concerning the digital economy are analysed, such as the digital economy and society index DESI and e-Government digital skills (EGDI) from 2018 to 2021 revealed a stagnant state in 2018 and 2019, and in 2020, there was a decrease in basic digital skills. The next index is E-Government Digital Index. It focuses on human capital and digital skills in these indices. The paper analyses and identifies the digital skills of citizens in the context of e-Government development and describes the use of e-Government services by EU citizens with a focus on the Slovak Republic. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey of Slovak Republic citizens’ digital skills according to selected categories, the use of e-Government services as well as awareness of e-Government services. Solutions that improve e-Government in the Slovak Republic are gradually being implemented. Improving digital skills according to the National Coalition for Digital Skills and Professions in the Slovak Republic is one of the priorities of The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, which has adopted an action plan for 2019–2022 to improve the results in the DESI index by 2025 and focus on the digital skills required by employers. The survey revealed that in Slovakia, the majority of schools offer only weak support for digital education (about the EU-27 average of 68% and 45%, respectively). The research also revealed a decreased level of digital literacy among young people. These competencies are very important to gain a position in the labour market in the digital society. The projects aim to support the development of digital skills of primary and secondary school students, and the integration of new technologies into teaching. Full article
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Impact of Strategy Change on Business Process Management
by Peter Bubenik, Juraj Capek, Miroslav Rakyta, Vladimira Binasova and Katarina Staffenova
Sustainability 2022, 14(17), 11112; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141711112 - 5 Sep 2022
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In the pursuit of economic survival in the current competitive conditions with the aim of long-term prosperity and sustainability in the market, many companies today approach significant strategic changes in the management of their business. The purpose of this study is the design [...] Read more.
In the pursuit of economic survival in the current competitive conditions with the aim of long-term prosperity and sustainability in the market, many companies today approach significant strategic changes in the management of their business. The purpose of this study is the design of a systematic procedure for implementing strategy changes into internal business processes for a project-oriented production type of organization. The proposed methodology contains steps where the selection and verification of key performance indicators at individual levels of management takes place. Furthermore, their monitoring and quantification of the impact of the change in strategy on internal company processes. The result of the study explains how the management can monitor and evaluate the chosen processes in accordance with the fulfilment of the chosen strategy of the company, which supports the systematic introduction of changes in the processes with the aim of sustaining the company’s performance. Full article
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In the Context of Digital Finance, Can Knowledge Enable Manufacturing Companies to Be More Courageous and Move towards Sustainable Innovation?
by Ying Tian and Jiayi Hong
Sustainability 2022, 14(17), 10634; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710634 - 26 Aug 2022
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The advent of the VUCA era and the development of digital finance (DF) present opportunities and challenges for manufacturing companies to seek sustainable innovation by increasing their organizational resilience (OR) to withstand crises. The production, flow, and acquisition of [...] Read more.
The advent of the VUCA era and the development of digital finance (DF) present opportunities and challenges for manufacturing companies to seek sustainable innovation by increasing their organizational resilience (OR) to withstand crises. The production, flow, and acquisition of corporate knowledge are indispensable to the establishment of organizational resilience. In this paper, we analyze how to make manufacturing enterprises more courageous and innovative in the context of digital finance. We used a perspective of knowledge channel acquisitions to achieve this aim. Using a sample of 1965 manufacturing companies in China from 2013 to 2020, we analyzed whether greater enterprise knowledge (internal knowledge and external knowledge) can yield higher levels of innovation performance and whether organizational resilience plays a role in the context of digital finance. The results show that (1) both internal enterprise knowledge (IEK) and external enterprise knowledge (EEK) have a significant positive impact on the sustainable innovation performance of manufacturing enterprises; (2) organizational resilience has a mediation role in the process of promoting sustainable innovation performance through enterprise knowledge; (3) digital finance significantly enhances the impact of enterprise knowledge on long-term growth and financial volatility of organizational resilience, and significantly positively moderates the mediation effect of organizational resilience; and (4) digital finance support policies issued by the government significantly improve the sustainable innovation performance of manufacturing firms. Based on these results, manufacturing firms can improve innovation performance by enhancing organizational resilience. This paper contributes to this field of research by providing an analysis of manufacturing firms, presenting a new view on the improvement of innovation performance in the context of digital finance. Full article
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Green Intellectual Capital and Green Supply Chain Performance: Does Big Data Analytics Capabilities Matter?
by Ayman wael AL-Khatib and Ahmed Shuhaiber
Sustainability 2022, 14(16), 10054; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610054 - 14 Aug 2022
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In light of global environmental concerns growing, environmental awareness within firms has become more important than before, and many scholars and researchers have argued the importance of environmental management in promoting sustainable organizational performance, especially in the context of supply chains. Thus, the [...] Read more.
In light of global environmental concerns growing, environmental awareness within firms has become more important than before, and many scholars and researchers have argued the importance of environmental management in promoting sustainable organizational performance, especially in the context of supply chains. Thus, the current study aimed at identifying the impact of the components of green intellectual capital (green human capital, green structural capital, green relational capital) on green supply chain performance in the manufacturing sector in Jordan, as well as identifying the moderating role of big data analytics capabilities. To achieve this aim, we developed a conceptual model of Structural Equation Modelling-Partial Least squares and tested through the Smart-PLS software on a sample of 438 respondents. Empirical results showed that each of the components of green intellectual capital and big data analytics explains 71.1% of the variance in green supply chain performance and that all components of green intellectual capital have a statistically significant impact on green supply chain performance. The results also revealed that the relationship between green relational capital and green supply chain performance is moderated through big data analytics capabilities. Finally, this study made a theoretical and managerial implications to the supply chain literature and industry. Full article
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Neuroeconomics in Cooperatives: Hierarchy of Emotional Patterns in the Collective Decision-Making Process for Sustainable Development
by Isaac Zúñiga Aguilar
Sustainability 2022, 14(12), 7321; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127321 - 15 Jun 2022
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The goal of this study is to determine the level of adaptation of agro-industrial cooperatives of small producers of alternative crops, and it considers the hierarchy of patterns to evaluate their systemic responses to accelerated change following the COVID-19 pandemic by evaluating the [...] Read more.
The goal of this study is to determine the level of adaptation of agro-industrial cooperatives of small producers of alternative crops, and it considers the hierarchy of patterns to evaluate their systemic responses to accelerated change following the COVID-19 pandemic by evaluating the risk of their structures adapting to the digital environment. With a total of (n = 90) volunteer responders, the study is experimental, transactional, descriptive, and correlational, with a control group (CENFROCAFE) and an experimental group (ACEPAT) (24 producer partners, 14 producer managers, and 7 employees for each cooperative). In Step 1 (SOFT aspect), it measures the organizational memory (OM) of Y0 = 0.32 in the (control group) and Y1 = 0.59 in the (experimental group) by measuring hidden plots in the formal and informal interrelations of its members with the correlation of the holistic competencies of innovation. In Stage 2 (HARD aspect), the impact of the digital operational risk (DOR) is measured in the adaptation of the organization structure, which results in the control group with a Digital Operational Risk (DOR) = (3.4), which is “High” and greater than the experimental group with DOR = (3.3), which is “Moderate”. In conclusion, Hypothesis 1 is met with a greater adaptation of the experimental group, greater organizational memory, and lower digital operational risk, which reflects that the memory of the organization would reflect the temporal memories of the human brains of its members, and that, in the same way, its behavior could be predicted linearly. Full article
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