Skip to Content

462 Results Found

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,959 Views
18 Pages

In manufacturing companies, productivity and efficiency are the main priorities, besides an emphasis on quality issues. The outcome of this research contributes to increasing production quality and efficiency in manufacturing. The article deals with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Indoor Modelling and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,869 Views
16 Pages

Mapping Parallels between Outdoor Urban Environments and Indoor Manufacturing Environments

  • Stefan Schabus,
  • Johannes Scholz and
  • Thomas J. Lampoltshammer

The concepts of “Smart Cities” and “Smart Manufacturing” are different data-driven domains, although both rely on intelligent information technology and data analysis. With the application of linked data and affordance-based approaches, both domains...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,777 Views
25 Pages

24 January 2024

From the perspective of innovation of manufacturing links, this paper conducted research on the current situation of manufacturing development and the relationship between regional economy development and digital transformation, aiming to offer sugge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,239 Views
17 Pages

22 December 2021

Industrial design is intrinsically linked to manufacturing; however, what is required of industrial design to adapt to new changes brought on by Industry 4.0 in manufacturing is unknown. Current literature gives little insight into how industrial des...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,090 Views
19 Pages

17 September 2020

The trend towards socialization, personalization and servitization in smart manufacturing has attracted the attention of researchers, practitioners and governments. Social manufacturing is a novel manufacturing paradigm responding to this trend. Howe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things, Big Data and Smart Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,919 Views
21 Pages

22 October 2020

This study presents empirical evidence for the ongoing discussion about the link between Lean Management (LM) and industry 4.0 (I4.0) by exploring a non-technical perspective on how manufacturers can capitalize on their technological investments. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,129 Views
25 Pages

18 April 2021

A digital twin of a manufacturing system is a digital copy of the physical manufacturing system that consists of various digital models at multiple scales and levels. Digital twins that communicate with their physical counterparts throughout their li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,961 Views
18 Pages

From Sensors to Digital Twins toward an Iterative Approach for Existing Manufacturing Systems

  • Dimitri Renard,
  • Ramla Saddem,
  • David Annebicque and
  • Bernard Riera

23 February 2024

Digital twin technology is a highly valued asset in the manufacturing sector, with its unique capability to bridge the gap between the physical and virtual parts. The impact of the rapid increase in this technology is based on the collection of real-...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,135 Views
21 Pages

28 May 2020

This study investigates the effect of energy use on labor productivity in the Ethiopian manufacturing industry. It uses panel data for the manufacturing industry groups to estimate the coefficients using the dynamic panel estimator. The study’s...

(This article belongs to the Collection Energy Use Efficiency)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,487 Views
20 Pages

Sustainability accounting is an emerging research area receiving growing awareness. This study examines the role of digital technology in manufacturing companies’ sustainability accounting. To guide the research, we use a triple layered business mode...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
233 Citations
51,040 Views
20 Pages

12 July 2017

Smart manufacturing (SM) is a term generally applied to the improvement in manufacturing operations through integration of systems, linking of physical and cyber capabilities, and taking advantage of information including leveraging the big data evol...

(This article belongs to the Collection Process Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
517 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2026

The rapid adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies has led to a substantial growth of sensors and connectivity in manufacturing systems, resulting in the generation of high-dimensional, memory-heavy datasets. Despite this abundance of data, many manufac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Based Machine Condition Monitoring and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
307 Views
32 Pages

12 August 2026

In this study, I investigate the relationships between information technology infrastructure flexibility (ITIF), big data analytics capability (BDAC), manufacturing agility (MA), and operational performance (OP) in Saudi manufacturing firms, while al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lean Manufacturing and Sustainable Performance in Digital Era: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
587 Views
24 Pages

22 July 2026

The intricate structure of the supply chain network, combined with the uncertainty of the external environment, has made supply chains more fragile and disrupted normal logistics operations. In the digital economy age, the integration of digital tech...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Operations Research for Sustainability in Logistics and Supply Chain Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,208 Views
20 Pages

17 April 2019

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between high-commitment human resource management (HCHRM) practices and process improvement activities (i.e., manufacturing flexibility) by utilizing the theory of social exchange....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Human Resource Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,219 Views
22 Pages

31 January 2020

This study develops a multiple mediating model for exploring the link between environmental regulation and financial performance through green dynamic capability, sustainability exploration/exploitation innovation, based on the data from 355 Chinese...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Policy Design and Implementation: Toward Sustainable Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,868 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient SC-FDM Modulation Technique for a UAV Communication Link

  • Sukhrob Atoev,
  • Oh-Heum Kwon,
  • Suk-Hwan Lee and
  • Ki-Ryong Kwon

25 November 2018

Since the communication link of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and its reliability evaluation represent an arduous field, we have concentrated our work on this topic. The demand regarding the validity and reliability of the communication and data l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,639 Views
15 Pages

3 April 2023

As an important means to realize intelligent manufacturing, a digital twin is a digital expression of physical entities, which realizes virtual–real interaction and the iterative optimization of product design and manufacturing by constructing...

(This article belongs to the Section Welding and Joining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,278 Views
23 Pages

19 December 2025

The phenomenon of digitalization and servitization paradoxes constrains the motivation of manufacturing firms to implement both strategies above. It has been shown that the role of digitalization in the link between servitization and firm performance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Solutions for Sustainable Economic Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
402 Views
18 Pages

2 June 2026

The submitted paper focuses on linking recycled material processing with digital technologies for monitoring and managing production processes in the context of Industry 4.0 principles. Despite the rapid development of additive manufacturing and Indu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced and Smart Manufacturing Processes and Machine Tool Technologies: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,806 Views
13 Pages

26 June 2023

This study aims to examine the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the manufacturing sector in Indonesia, one of the largest contributors of carbon emissions. This sector needs to implement sustainability as outlined in SDG 9: S...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,780 Views
18 Pages

Systematic Development of Sustainability-Oriented Cyber-Physical Production Systems

  • Christopher Rogall,
  • Mark Mennenga,
  • Christoph Herrmann and
  • Sebastian Thiede

11 February 2022

Manufacturing companies increasingly have to address the risks and contributions related to their environmental impacts. Therefore, more data are needed in order to provide full transparency with regard to production, and to highlight the potential r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation and Its Opportunities for Sustainable Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
27,722 Views
30 Pages

8 March 2024

This study aimed to investigate the influence of green supply chain management practices on the environmental performance of manufacturing firms, with a specific focus on understanding how institutional pressure moderated this relationship. The resea...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,944 Views
14 Pages

Leading Role of E-Learning and Blockchain towards Privacy and Security Management: A Study of Electronics Manufacturing Firms

  • Abdelmohsen A. Nassani,
  • Adriana Grigorescu,
  • Zahid Yousaf,
  • Raluca Andreea Trandafir,
  • Asad Javed and
  • Mohamed Haffar

The success of businesses is now mostly dependent on e-learning methods as these methods are a rapidly growing innovative technology. Blockchain technology has also been considered to have the ability to change businesses. Therefore, this research ai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Applications of Emerging Digital Technologies in Economy and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,674 Views
22 Pages

4 March 2026

This work investigated the impact of energy-efficient and water-saving manufacturing procedures—specifically one-pot and hot-cold processes—on the rheological and microstructural stability of oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions (emulgels) stabil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Food Hydrocolloids and Hydrogels: Rheology and Texture Analysis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,508 Views
35 Pages

A Synergic Approach of Deep Learning towards Digital Additive Manufacturing: A Review

  • Ayush Pratap,
  • Neha Sardana,
  • Sapdo Utomo,
  • John Ayeelyan,
  • P. Karthikeyan and
  • Pao-Ann Hsiung

8 December 2022

Deep learning and additive manufacturing have progressed together in the previous couple of decades. Despite being one of the most promising technologies, they have several flaws that a collaborative effort may address. However, digital manufacturing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,759 Views
15 Pages

15 October 2025

The growing demand for automated production systems is driving continuous innovation in smart and data-driven manufacturing technologies. In the field of production metrology, the trend is shifting from using measurement laboratories to integrating m...

(This article belongs to the Topic Measurement Strategies and Standardization in Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
463 Views
26 Pages

26 August 2026

Background: High-mix manufacturing environments are characterized by increasing product variety, dynamic material flows, and growing operational complexity, creating significant challenges for intralogistics layout redesign. Existing research address...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence, Logistics Analytics, and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
16,807 Views
19 Pages

26 January 2022

Despite the substantial attention given to pro-environmental behavior (PEB) by academicians, practitioners, and policymakers, few studies have investigated how employee-perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects employees’ PEB. Mor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Developing Countries: Current Trends and Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,882 Views
12 Pages

The manufacturing sector is undergoing a paradigm shift driven by the integration of the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, and advanced technologies such as Digital Twins (DTs), machine learning (ML), and edge computing within the Industry 4.0 fram...

(This article belongs to the Section Innovations in Materials Science and Materials Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,688 Views
14 Pages

Seasonal Data Cleaning for Sales with Chase Demand Strategy

  • Marcela Malindzakova,
  • Dušan Malindzak and
  • Andrzej Kubik

The intricate process of planning production, involving product life cycle management and the synthesis of manufacturing information, is crucial for coherence in manufacturing. Manufacturing companies, operating in a high-mix, low-volume production e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
287 Views
29 Pages

8 September 2026

Efficient operation of interconnected production systems requires accurate modeling of upstream–downstream interactions to support informed operational decision-making. This study proposes an interconnected Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design of AI-Enhanced Mechatronic Systems for Precision Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
793 Views
33 Pages

The transition towards Industry 4.0 has significantly heightened the need for manufacturing firms to assess their organisational readiness for the digital transformation of production systems while aligning with sustainable manufacturing goals. Despi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
171 Citations
36,931 Views
22 Pages

24 June 2021

Sustainable supply chain management has been an important research issue for the last two decades due to climate change. From a global perspective, the United Nations have introduced sustainable development goals, which point towards sustainability....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Supply Chain Innovation and Operation Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,525 Views
14 Pages

Data Science Supporting Lean Production: Evidence from Manufacturing Companies

  • Rossella Pozzi,
  • Violetta Giada Cannas and
  • Tommaso Rossi

15 March 2024

Research in lean production has recently focused on linking lean production to Industry 4.0 by discussing the positive relationship between them. In the context of Industry 4.0, data science plays a fundamental role, and operations management researc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lean Manufacturing in Industry 4.0)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,839 Views
20 Pages

29 January 2026

Integrating machine learning (ML) with Statistical Process Control (SPC) is important for Industry 4.0 environments. Contemporary manufacturing data exhibit high-dimensionality, autocorrelation, non-stationarity, and class imbalance, which challenge...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,518 Views
19 Pages

27 April 2023

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between enterprise technological innovation, export product quality, and the upgrading of the manufacturing value chain. The study is based on panel data from Chinese manufacturing enterpris...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Manufacturing Sustainability in the Industry 4.0 Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,801 Views
31 Pages

15 July 2025

This work presents a multiscale, microstructure-aware framework for predicting fatigue strength distributions in additively manufactured (AM) alloys—specifically, laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) AlSi10Mg and Ti-6Al-4V—by integrating densi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Multi-scale Modeling and Optimisation of Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,302 Views
26 Pages

Digitalizing Material Knowledge: A Practical Framework for Ontology-Driven Knowledge Graphs in Process Chains

  • Elena Garcia Trelles,
  • Christoph Schweizer,
  • Akhil Thomas,
  • Philipp von Hartrott and
  • Marina Janka-Ramm

14 December 2024

This paper proposes a robust methodology for integrating process-specific data and domain expert knowledge into linked knowledge graphs. These graphs utilize an ontology that provides a standardized vocabulary for material science and facilitates the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Views
36 Pages

9 October 2026

This study integrates institutional theory (INT) and the resource-based view (RBV) to investigate the mediating role of total quality management (TQM) in the relationship between environmental determinants (ED) and environmental performance (EP) in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
485 Views
23 Pages

13 May 2026

Against the backdrop of digital transformation, industrial integration between modern services and advanced manufacturing has become an important driver of sustainable industrial development. Nevertheless, existing studies have mainly examined its di...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,035 Views
16 Pages

4 March 2026

Precise control of humidity levels within semiconductor manufacturing environments is paramount to ensuring product quality and yield. Unsuitable conditions can induce various wafer-related defects, including corrosion, oxidation, and poor film adhes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,606 Views
27 Pages

Under the background of double carbon target and digital intelligence era, the innovation resources and innovation environment that manufacturing enterprises rely on have shown exponential growth. Digital green innovation (DGI) has gradually become t...

(This article belongs to the Topic Toward the New Era of Sustainable Design, Manufacturing and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
344 Views
25 Pages

17 September 2026

Nepal’s decline of public industrial enterprises was not always followed by comparable domestic productive capacity. This study introduces the industrial replacement gap (IRG) as an initial conceptual and diagnostic framework for assessing such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
807 Views
14 Pages

20 November 2025

This research paper examines how economic sustainability, social sustainability and technological competence affect organizational values which then influence the economic performance in Saudi Arabian manufacturing businesses. The study used a quanti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,038 Views
33 Pages

5 November 2024

Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is an advanced additive manufacturing technique that demands meticulous control over thermal dynamics to maintain the integrity and performance of manufactured parts. This study presents the development and validation of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Laser Surface Engineering and Additive Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,390 Views
43 Pages

5 August 2025

This study investigates the role of Big Data Analytics Capabilities (BDACs) in ambidexterity explorative innovation (EXPLRI) and exploitative (EXPLOI) innovation for achieving a sustainable performance (SP) in the manufacturing sector of a resource-c...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,215 Views
16 Pages

8 October 2022

Today, for most applications in industry, the overall goal of manufacturers and users is to completely rethink and improve reliability and sustainability. In relation to the performance of rotating equipment, examples of ongoing trends and related ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
607 Views
24 Pages

3 June 2026

Resource dependence pressure helps explain why some manufacturing firms remain tied to resource-based business paths even when green transformation is needed. Existing resource curse studies have mainly examined countries, regions, and resource-based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Digital Transformation and Sustainability in Business Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,015 Views
30 Pages

The digital revolution affects every aspect of society and economy. In particular, the manufacturing industry faces a new age of production processes and connected collaboration. The underlying ideas and concepts, often also framed as a new “In...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

of 10