Special Issue "Optimization of Logistics Systems Using Industry 4.0 Technologies"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Péter Tamás
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Institute of Logistics, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary
Interests: process improvement; lean; industry 4.0 technologies; logistics systems
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Prof. Dr. Stavros T. Ponis
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Guest Editor
School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University Athens, Athens 15780, Greece
Interests: supply chain management; logistics; management information systems; decision support systems; digital transformation & e-business

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As a result of striving to meet individual customer needs, the complexity of the operation of logistics systems increases. For this reason, the improvement and optimization of various logistics processes is an increasing challenge for today's logistics professionals. The application of the new industry 4.0 technologies (e.g. cyber physics systems, big data, IoT, etc.) in logistics systems opens up many possibilities, including the collection and processing of system data, as well as the control of system components. This serves as the basis for new operating models, the development of which can reduce the losses of logistics systems and increase their sustainability. The main purpose of this special issue is to present new operating models in the field of logistics that have been developed and/or implemented using industry 4.0 technologies and optimization methods.

Suggested literature:

Spanos, A. C., Ponis, S. T., Tatsiopoulos, I. P., Christou, I. T., & Rokou, E. (2014). A new hybrid parallel genetic algorithm for the job‐shop scheduling problem. International Transactions in Operational Research, 21(3), 479-499.

Bányai, T.; Tamás, P.; Illés, B.; Stankevičiūtė, Ž.; Bányai, Á. Optimization of Municipal Waste Collection Routing: Impact of Industry 4.0 Technologies on Environmental Awareness and Sustainability. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 634.

Tamás P, Tollár S, Illés B, Bányai T, Tóth ÁB, Skapinyecz R. Decision Support Simulation Method for Process Improvement of Electronic Product Testing Systems. Sustainability. 2020; 12(7):3063.

Tamás P. Innovative Business Model for Realization of Sustainable Supply Chain at the Outsourcing Examination of Logistics Services. Sustainability. 2018; 10(1):210.

Ponis, S. T., & Koronis, E. (2012). Supply Chain Resilience? Definition of concept and its formative elements. The Journal of Applied Business Research, 28(5), 921-935.

Tamás P., Illés B. (2016) Process Improvement Trends for Manufacturing Systems in Industry 4.0., Academic Journal of Manufacturing Engineering, 119-124.

Ponis, S. T., Papanikolaou, P. A., Katimertzoglou, P., Ntalla, A. C., & Xenos, K. I. (2017). Household food waste in Greece: A questionnaire survey. Journal of Cleaner Production, 149, 1268-1277.

Ponis, S. T., & Efthymiou, O. K. (2020). Cloud and IoT Applications in Material Handling Automation and Intralogistics. Logistics, 4(3), 22.

Ponis, S. T. (2020). A Proposed Technology IoT Based Ecosystem for Tackling the Marine Beach Litter Problem. In Proceedings of SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (pp. 673-678). Springer, Cham.

Dr. Péter Tamás
Prof. Dr. Stavros T. Ponis
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Sustainable supply chain 4.0
  • Novel production and logistics systems
  • Digital Twin technology
  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Process optimization
  • Virtual logistics companies
  • Green logistics
  • Additive manufacturing technology
  • Digitization in logistics
  • Decision support systems in logistics.

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A Systematic Literature Review on Additive Manufacturing in the Context of Circular Economy
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6007; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116007 - 26 May 2021
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) is, undoubtedly, one of the most promising and potentially disruptive technologies of the Industry 4.0 era, able to transform the traditional manufacturing paradigm and fuel the generally accepted and necessary shift towards the conceptualisation, design and adoption of sustainable and [...] Read more.
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is, undoubtedly, one of the most promising and potentially disruptive technologies of the Industry 4.0 era, able to transform the traditional manufacturing paradigm and fuel the generally accepted and necessary shift towards the conceptualisation, design and adoption of sustainable and circular business models. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the structure of the scientific field residing in the intersection of AM and Circular Economy (CE), by determining the status of its current state-of-the-art, proposing an initial typology in an attempt to contribute to the existing efforts of structuring this rather novice research area and pinpointing research gaps where more focus should be put, and highlighting areas with a significant potential for added-value future research. To that end, a sample of 206 papers, published from 2014 to 2020, was retrieved from the Scopus and Google Scholar databases. After studying and critically evaluating their content in full, contributions were classified into six thematic categories, providing a first typology of the current literature, followed by a detailed section highlighting and taxonomizing existing review studies. Next, contributions of the three categories of interest are discussed followed by a critical evaluation of the study’s contribution, inherent limitations and future research potential. Full article
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