Special Issue "Sustainable Manufacturing and Supply Chain in the Context of Industry 4.0: Challenges and Opportunities"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Olivier Cardin
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LS2N UMR CNRS 6004, University of Nantes, 44470 Carquefou, France
Interests: holonic manufacturing systems; digital twin; cyber-physical production systems
Prof. Dr. Damien Trentesaux
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LAMIH-UMR CNRS, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, 59313 Valenciennes, France
Interests: Industry 4.0; sustainable/energy aware scheduling; intelligent/active product; physical Internet; manufacturing systems; transportation systems; logistics; supply-chains
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Prof. Dr. Adriana Giret
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Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
Interests: multiagent systems; intelligent manufacturing systems; agent-supported simulation for manufacturing systems; applications of multiagent systems; sustainable intelligent manufacturing and logistics systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

The hyper-connectivity of future industrial devices has led to the development of the so-called Industry 4.0 paradigm. Among the main pillars of this paradigm, sustainability is meant to lower the impact of industry on its surrounding environment and enhance the working conditions. With the advances in the industrial internet of things, edge and fog computing, the growing amount of data extracted from the shop floor motivates the research for new information, control, and communication technologies such as digital twin, big data analysis, cloud services, and artificial intelligence, applied for agility, reality awareness, optimization, and a shift from diagnosis to prognosis in controlling the consumption and cost of energy in manufacturing. The perimeter of the sustainability pillar encompasses both the intra-workshop activities and the extra-workshop activities, typically the associated supply chain. This Special Issue will emphasize the impact of the development of innovative Industry 4.0-oriented paradigms, among which cyber-physical production systems or cobotics, on the sustainability of manufacturing management and control. Sustainability is considered here in all its facets: efficient use of energy and resources, adaptability to energy volatility, impact of Industry 4.0 on health and security of the workers, on inbound and outbound logistics, etc. 

This Special Issue will provide knowledge and experience on the recent advancements of sustainable manufacturing and supply chain. It will address all aspects of industrial systems management, such as the control and management of production, supply chain, logistics, transportation, after-sales services, among others, industrial and after-sale services and maintenance operations, management and control of energy consumption and distribution, and humans in Industry 4.0  

We welcome papers on the following topics for this Special Issue: 

  • Innovative supply chain organization and control for sustainability objectives;
  • Workshop control or scheduling including energy constraints, changing of consumption patterns;
  • Planning and management of health and safety workshops for workers;
  • Industrial sustainability business models;
  • Human-machine cooperation in the context of cyber-physical production systems, including ethics and acceptability issues. 

Dr. Olivier Cardin
Prof. Dr. Damien Trentesaux
Prof. Dr. Adriana Giret
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • research field:
    • waste/energy management,
    • scheduling, planning, control,
    • maintenance,
    • anthropocentric industry, human 4.0, human machine cooperation,
    • cyber-physical production systems
  • application:
    • manufacturing, production,
    • transportation, supply chain

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Development of Multi-Disciplinary Green-BOM to Maintain Sustainability in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9533; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179533 - 24 Aug 2021
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The reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) appears to be eco-friendly while coping with rapidly changing market demands. However, there remains a lack of discussion or research regarding sustainability or environment-friendly functions within RMS. In this study, the reconfiguration planning problem is introduced to represent [...] Read more.
The reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) appears to be eco-friendly while coping with rapidly changing market demands. However, there remains a lack of discussion or research regarding sustainability or environment-friendly functions within RMS. In this study, the reconfiguration planning problem is introduced to represent the core issues within the RMS. Reconfiguration occurs depending on new demands or conditions in the company by reconfiguring machines, such as removing, adding, or changing parts, giving considerable consideration to arrangement of machines, known as configurations in RMS. Therefore, reconfiguration process is always strongly connected to cost, energy consumption, and, more importantly, data management. The complexity of reconfiguration, product variation, and development processes requires tools that are capable of managing multi-disciplinary bill-of-material(BOM) or product data and providing a better collaboration support for data/information tracking while maintaining sustainability. This paper proposes a multi-disciplinary green bill-of-material (MDG-BOM)—an improved Green-BOM concept—with an additional multi-disciplinary feature to minimize emissions and hazardous materials during product development, as well as manage product information across multiple disciplines during the reconfiguration process. A smart spreadsheet for managing MDG-BOM was developed to allow multiple departments to integrate multiple sources of CAD design data and monitor/track changes throughout each step of the process. Full article
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Industrial Performance: An Evolution Incorporating Ethics in the Context of Industry 4.0
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9209; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169209 - 17 Aug 2021
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This article addresses the issue of the industrial performance model and its evolution to cope with the context of Industry 4.0. With its digitalisation, intelligent/autonomous systems and wealth of data, Industry 4.0 offers opportunities that can achieve objectives better. It also presents risks [...] Read more.
This article addresses the issue of the industrial performance model and its evolution to cope with the context of Industry 4.0. With its digitalisation, intelligent/autonomous systems and wealth of data, Industry 4.0 offers opportunities that can achieve objectives better. It also presents risks and uncertainties that question the autonomy of the systems, their interaction with humans and the use of available data. The hypothesis put forward in this work is that the efficiency–effectiveness–relevance performance triangle can no longer guarantee long-term performance under these conditions and needs to be associated with an ethical dimension that allows for the risks and uncertainties relating to Industry 4.0 to be considered. Ethics is therefore considered to extend the triangle to a tetrahedron. A brief analysis of current performance management will first show the limits of the current practice in the context of Industry 4.0. The frameworks that could overcome these limits in light of new needs are then recalled and discussed, leading to the choice of ethics, whose main definitions and use in the engineering field are also introduced. The proposed (efficiency–effectiveness–relevance–ethics tetrahedron-based methodology is illustrated through a case study related to an aeronautical supplier, regarding the consequences of the implementation of a MES (Manufacturing Execution System) in terms of product traceability and operator autonomy. The discussion and prospects finally conclude this study. Full article
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