Online retail platforms such as Amazon and Tmall have the ability to create personalized recommendations based on the consumer’s browsing history, purchase history, and preferences by investing in data analytics capability. In practice, manufac...
Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) is a new-generation service-oriented networked manufacturing model that provides distributed users centralized managed manufacturing resources, ability, and services. CMfg is applied here to a semiconductor manufacturing fa...
Considering consumers’ low-carbon preferences, this article analyzes a manufacturer’s price and carbon abatement strategies, as well as a retailer’s price and promotion strategies, in a centralized game, where the manufacturer and t...
26 August 2024
This paper investigates manufacturer encroachment on a sustainable supply chain, where the manufacturer holds exclusive information on product greenness and is responsible for both corporate social responsibility (CSR) and greening. The manufacturer...
With the frequent occurrence of emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years, resilience has become increasingly important for the stable and sustainable development of the manufacturing companies. Despite growing interest in supply chai...
This paper considers the agency selling channel in a supply chain under platform service investment. We construct Stackelberg game models to study the impact of the manufacturer’s encroachment strategy on supply chain members. Research results...
Frequent emergencies highlight the importance of corporate resilience, and relationship governance behaviors have received much attention for improving firms’ resilience. This study uses structural equation modeling to test hypotheses based on...
The dynamic optimization of the closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) is a hot research topic. Members’ competitive behavior and product goodwill play an important role in the decision making of CLSC members. In this paper, a closed-loop supply chain...
In this paper, we study the optimal profit change in a manufacturer-led dual-channel supply chain under centralized decision-making and decentralized decision-making scenarios. The supply chain is composed of only a single supplier, a manufacturer, a...
With the development of international cooperation, South Africa (SA) has been China’s largest trading partner in Africa for several consecutive years. China and SA can build the digital “Belt and Road” to modernize the manufacturing...
The swift expansion of China’s automotive manufacturing industry has spurred a constant rise in the demand for automotive parts production and distribution, making the optimization of distribution routes in complex environments a crucial resear...
The green supply chain is a crucial approach to addressing environmental issues and supporting sustainable development. This study examines the coordination challenges in green supply chains, accounting for risk aversion and manufacturer competition....
This paper considers a dynamic Stackelberg game model for a manufacturer-led supply chain with risk aversion. Cooperative advertising strategy is applied to the marketing decisions of supply chain participants. Based on Stackelberg game and system dy...
This paper analyses the strategies of the substitutable suppliers competing to collaborate with a main manufacturer in “main manufacturer–supplier” (M-S) mode. In the research and development (R&D) of complex products, only one...
We study the strategic pricing decision models of manufacture-led dual-channel supply chains with the free-rider problem under the service level and cost. We use the Stackelberg model to study the impact of the degree with the free-rider problem of c...
16 January 2019
Many carbon reduction policies have been implemented to reduce carbon dioxide in the manufacturing process of products. However, many products emit more carbon dioxide in the consumption process. From the consumer’s utility perspective, this pa...
This paper proposes a dynamic membrane algorithm (DMA)-oriented computing framework designed to optimize decision-making in Customer-to-Green-Manufacturer (C2GM) operations on industrial internet platforms. Unlike traditional methods that focus solel...
With the increase of public environmental awareness and the growth of e-commerce, sustainable development promotes the manufacturer to increasingly participate in green innovation and make full use of the online sales channel to enhance competitivene...
This study explores the multiproduct manufacturer-retailer coordination replenishing decision featuring outsourcing strategy and product quality assurance. Globalization has generated enormous opportunities. Consequently, transnational firms now face...
Implementing hybrid carbon policies is crucial for supply chains’ low-carbon transition. However, the downstream retailer is often passive in low-carbon strategies, leading to fair issues that may influence the decision-making of channel member...
Modern vision-based inspection systems are inherently limited by their two-dimensional nature, particularly when inspecting complex product geometries. These systems are often unable to capture critical depth information, leading to challenges in acc...
Based on the two recent consecutive Korean Innovation Surveys in 2014 and 2016, this research empirically identifies the influencing factors and overall behavior of innovation success and failure in the manufacturing industry by using decision-making...
Sustainable design aims to reduce the negative impacts either on people (e.g., create healthy) or on planet (e.g., minimize waste). In other words, sustainable design is the philosophy thattendstoimprovedesignperformancebyincorporatinghealthandsafety...
Business model innovation is vitally important for firms to gain competitive advantages and improve their performance. While it has attracted much attention recently, considerable work is still needed to properly understand business model innovation....
This study presents a comprehensive framework for the sustainable selection of manufacturers in variable refrigerant flow (VRF) air conditioning systems by integrating environmental impact considerations with traditional technical and economic criter...
In the current global system; supply chains are at risk due to increasing procurement shortages, supply disruptions, and the reliability of on-time deliveries with the original order quantities. As a result, an anticipated management model is of vita...
In the pursuit of operational excellence and enhanced competitiveness, a wide range of industries have turned to methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma; however, in the chemical sector, their application is very limited. This paper presents a Lean...
The dual-channel structure resulted from manufacturer encroachment could alter the incentives of downstream retailer to ex ante communicate demand forecast. And different types of channel competition need to be investigated in this dual-channel infor...
Traditional wisdom claims that remanufacturing operations always benefit the manufacturer in monopolistic cases and hurt the supplier in a supply chain system. However, we show that this claim does not hold when firms face a mature market. In particu...
Under extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulations, trade-in programs allow manufacturers to play a vital role in recycling. Simultaneously, third-party recyclers (TPRs) can use their recycling network to compensate for manufacturers having onl...
Vehicle manufacturers offer incentives in an attempt to encourage consumers to purchase or lease new vehicles. Similarly federal and local governments offer incentives to help build and maintain a market for plug-in electric vehicles (1). This paper...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted some of the challenges that countries face when balancing domestic and global necessities, for example with regard to vaccine needs, production and distribution. As India hosts one of the world’s largest vaccine...
The present article was aimed at identifying opportunities for cleaner production (CP) from the process flow analysis of a furniture manufacturing company located in the municipality of Palhoça (SC, Brazil). The company was used as an explorat...
As environmental degradation intensifies, governments increasingly subsidize green manufacturing to promote sustainability. This study develops a game-theoretic model of two competing supply chains, comprising original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)...
With the introduction and application of new information technology in manufacturing, various advanced manufacturing models and national strategies have received more and more attention. The goal of cloud manufacturing is to closely link the resource...
The quest for waste reduction and the development of manufacturing processes that meet the economic, social and environmental requirements necessitate this study. Additive manufacturing is an emerging digital technology that can be used to seamlessly...
Additive manufacturing is a potentially disruptive technology with a high impact on supply chains and part design. While generally allowing much higher degrees of freedom in design than formative and subtractive manufacturing techniques, the necessit...
It is challenging to manufacture complex and intricate shapes and geometries with desired surface characteristics using a single manufacturing process. Parts often need to undergo post-processing and must be transported from one machine into another...
The manufacturing sector has undergone significant growth due to the integration of technologies from the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Industry 4.0 has revolutionized industrial operations, leading to increased utilization of smart and automated sys...
Shared manufacturing provides a new development direction for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. This paper took a manufacturing company that masters core technology and has strong knowledge creation and spillover capabil...
Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, is a manufacturing technology that constructs objects by sequentially adding material layer by layer. AM encompasses a range of different techniques capable of working with v...
Complex product design, manufacturing, and service are the key elements of a product’s life cycle. However, the traditional manufacturing processes of design, manufacturing, and service are independent of each other, so lack deep integration. T...
This paper provides a classification of manufacturing types in terms of new technological tools provided in the Industry 5.0 framework. The manufacturing types agile, holonic, flexible and reconfigurable benefit from and are potentially changed by In...
This article develops and demonstrates a set of design-focused manufacturability constraints for the fused deposition modeling/fused filament fabrication (FDM/FFF) process. These can be mapped from the basic behavior and process characteristics and f...
The aim of most manufacturing and production factories can be defined as achieving smart and sustainable long-term production systems, which means moving towards strategies defined by Zero-Defect Manufacturing strategies with many areas of improvemen...
(1) Background: Products, manufactured using additive manufacturing technologies (AM) are increasingly present on the market. The research was undertaken to determine the possibilities of increasing the use of AM technology in Polish manufacturing co...
Crowdsourced manufacturing, which has emerged as a pivotal paradigm in the era of Industry 4.0, redefines traditional production models by leveraging decentralized decision-making and collaborative networks. This paper reviews the evolution of the op...
The realization of intelligent and green manufacturing represents two core challenges currently faced by manufacturing enterprises. The “Intelligent Manufacturing Pilot Demonstration List” issued by the Ministry of Industry and Informatio...
Research in the field of materials is very broad, ranging from studies on the structure and properties at the atomic or molecular level to the most complex or sophisticated applications that can be done with them, as well as studies about other aspec...
Industry 4.0 presents an opportunity to gain a competitive advantage through productivity, flexibility, and speed. It also empowers the manufacturing sector to drive the sustainability revolution to achieve net zero carbon by reducing emissions in op...
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