Under the influence of urbanization, the relationship between human and nature gradually separated, therefore it is difficult for people to obtain the benefits of nature connectedness. In this paper, an IoT-based sharing plant factory is described to...
Background: Shared value creation in base of the pyramid (BoP) communities is a crucial process towards building sustainable societies. BoP communities in developing countries represent more than 4 billion people who live on low incomes with limited...
The miniaturization and modularization of production capacity brings with it not only greater agility and efficiency, but also increased flexibility in the form of mobility. This flexibility allows production capacity to be moved when and where it is...
This research investigates the tension between trust and confidentiality in Mobile Supply Chains (MSCs), where a production asset that is owned by one of the partners is outsourced to another partner of the supply chain for the production of goods, c...
Due to the competitive relationship among different smart factories, equipment manufacturers cannot integrate the private information of all smart factories to train the intelligent manufacturing equipment fault prediction model and improve the accur...
This study uses the grounded theory approach to explore factory workers to factory worker interaction (FWI) in the context of Chinese factories and proposes a model of FWI in the workplace. Human interaction in the workplace is indispensable in most...
Plant Factory is a newly emerging industry aiming at transforming crop production to an unprecedented model by leveraging industrial automation and informatics. However, today’s plant factory and vertical farming industry are still in a primiti...
Life cycle inventories (LCIs) and life cycle assessments (LCAs) of photovoltaic (PV) modules and their components focus on the operations of PV factories, but the factories and industrial site product and construction stages are either not or only pa...
In a dynamic and rapidly changing world, customers’ often conflicting demands have continued to evolve, outstripping the ability of the traditional factory to address modern-day production challenges. To fix these challenges, several manufactur...
In digital product and ion scheduling centers, order–factory allocation, factory–mold allocation, and mold routing can be performed centrally and efficiently to maximize the utilization of manufacturing resources (molds). Therefore, in th...
This study focuses on the national-level green factory certification program. Drawing on panel data of Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms from 2004 to 2024 and employing a difference-in-differences (DID) approach, it investigates the impact o...
27 May 2016
This study examines physical and sport activities as a source of shared flow or optimal shared experiences and their relationship with subjective well-being (SWB). Two studies are presented with university students (N=88 and N=285) participating in g...
Amidst an energy crisis stemming from increased energy costs and the looming threat of war, there has been a burgeoning interest in energy conservation and management worldwide. Industrial complexes constitute a significant portion of total energy co...
This study examines whether green factory certification improves corporate capacity utilization. As a voluntary regulatory instrument for promoting green manufacturing, green factory certification may enhance firms’ production efficiency by pro...
In view of the leather and footwear industry’s declining market share and production activity, our study aims to identify the most important challenges facing the leather and footwear sector related to the decline in its market share and production a...
This paper examines the impact of government-led green certification on enterprise green transformation, utilizing data from A-share-listed firms in China and focusing on the Green Factory Certification program launched by the Ministry of Industry an...
Green factory certification is an important strategic measure for China to advance the green manufacturing transformation of its manufacturing sector and achieve carbon reduction and efficiency gains in the industrial sector. Using a sample of Chines...
For green and sustainable supply chains, transportation resilience is a critical issue. Car Sharing is an effective way to improve transportation resilience. The emerging car-sharing industry continues to attract a lot of investment, but few companie...
Although financial statements are increasingly recognised as containing rich economic and governance information, the existing research on zero-carbon factory certification has primarily focused on external policy instruments, technological pathways,...
Topic modelling has become a highly popular technique for extracting knowledge from texts. It encompasses various method families, including Factorial methods, Probabilistic methods, and Natural Language Processing methods. This paper introduces a un...
This paper presents an optimized economic evaluation model for intensive drilling in unconventional oil and gas development, based on the “well factory” concept. The model integrates cost components—including pre-drilling, drilling...
Interest in smart factories and smart supply chains has been increasing, and researchers have emphasized the importance and the effects of advanced technologies such as 3D printers, the Internet of Things, and cloud services. This paper considers an...
A wide variety of viruses replicate in liquid-like viral factories. Non-segmented negative stranded RNA viruses share a nucleoprotein (N) and a phosphoprotein (P) that together emerge as the main drivers of liquid–liquid phase separation. The r...
12 September 2019
Using the Multicontext Stressors Scale (MSS), this study investigates which factorial structure should be used to measure teacher stressors, and the extent to which this factorial structure of MSS remains invariant across gender. Subsequently, ground...
The increasing share of volatile, renewable energy sources rises the demand for consumers who can shift their electrical power demand in time. In theory, the industrial sector offers great potential here, as it accounts for a large proportion of elec...
Achieving the transformation from “growth at the expense of the environment” to “growth through environmental protection” is an essential path for developing countries to promote sustainable economic and social development. Th...
Against the backdrop of the global green transition and China’s pursuit of high-quality opening-up, examining whether green industrial policy can improve firms’ OFDI performance is important for understanding how domestic green transforma...
In this paper, we considered the representation power of local overlapping histograms for discrete binary signals. We give an algorithm that is linear in signal size and factorial in window size for producing the set of signals, which share a sequenc...
In recent years, the semiconductor industry has embraced advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to facilitate intelligent manufacturing throughout their organizations, with particular emphasis on virtual metrology (VM) systems. Nonetheless,...
Background/Aim: Social networks have transformed the traditional dynamics of identity construction in adolescence, allowing users to select content and interact with others who share similar views, thereby reinforcing a sense of belonging to homogene...
Microbial inoculants can support sustainable crop production, but mixtures may show non-additive interactions, making formulation compatibility important to evaluate in tea. We tested three inoculant factors in a balanced 2 × 2 × 2 root-d...
Green manufacturing is an important path for accelerating the green transformation of the industrial development model. “Green Factories” certification serves as an innovative approach to voluntary environmental regulation, designed to gu...
The collaborative transformation of digitalization and greening has become a core trend for modern enterprises to build sustainable development systems. As a typical voluntary environmental regulation in China, green factory certification plays an im...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has reshaped shared spaces in higher education, with manufacturing labs (Fab Labs) emerging as vital hubs for collaboration. However, a systematic framework for ensuring their long-term sustainability as shared resour...
The implementation of building information modeling (BIM) has become a reality worldwide, not only because of the advantages it offers, but also because of the obligatory nature of its use in construction and civil engineering projects in various cou...
At present, the construction of China’s shared manufacturing platform is developing rapidly. However, it is still in the stage of practical exploration, facing numerous challenges, such as difficulties in resource integration, immature business...
Industry 5.0 promotes sustainable, resilient, and human-centric manufacturing. Many factories struggle to produce energy-aware schedules that balance throughput, energy, and time-of-use (TOU) tariffs. Classical methods (heuristics and optimization) h...
10 August 2020
Many small manufacturing factories suffer insufficient environment-friendly capacity after eliminating the outdated and environmental-harmful production capacity according to stringent environmental rules and regulations. This paper analyzes two stra...
We suggest a continuous variable quantum conferencing network scheme with an entangled source in the middle. Here, the source generates a multipartite entangled state and distributes the modes of the state to an arbitrary number of legitimate network...
Economic solutions for the integration of volatile renewable electricity generation are decisive for a socially supported energy transition. So-called energy-flexible factories can adapt their electricity consumption process efficiently to power gene...
With the rapid development of industry, the risks factories face are increasing. Therefore, the anomaly detection algorithms deployed in factories need to have high accuracy, and they need to be able to promptly discover and locate the specific equip...
Sustainability assessments in manufacturing typically report on performance but provide little evidence of which observed indicators influenced a near-term outcome, or which improvement should be prioritized by management. The published sustainable i...
27 June 2020
On 22 March 2019 the Thai Department of Disease Control (DDC) was notified that 16 workers, including Thai and Myanmar migrant workers, from two factories located in Nakhon Phathom Province, had presented with a fever with rash during the previous 2...
The application of magnesium significantly affects the components of the wheat yield and the dry matter partitioning in the grain-filling period (GFP). This hypothesis was tested in 2013, 2014, and 2015. A two-factorial experiment with three rates of...
18 February 2022
The global COVID-19 mass vaccination program has created a polemic amongst pro- and anti-vaccination groups on social media. However, the working mechanism on how the shared information might influence an individual decision to be vaccinated is still...
Energy production and supply are important challenges for civilisation. Renewable energy sources present an increased share of the energy supply. Under these circumstances, small-scale grids operating in small areas as fully functioning energy system...
Wood–plastic composites, consisting of wood particles and a thermoplastic matrix, are common composites often used in buildings as decking boards or for similar non-load-carrying applications. As these are usually semi-finished products, a cert...
Singapore has established six Integrated Construction and Prefabrication Hubs with the goal of meeting ambitious productivity targets and building a resilient precast supply chain by 2024. These factories are equipped with high levels of mechanizatio...
5G and beyond networks are being designed to support the future digital society, where numerous sensors, machinery, vehicles and humans will be connected in the so-called Internet of Things (IoT). The support of time-critical verticals such as Indust...
This study examines whether AI disclosure labels alter the evaluation and sharing of misinformation when messages align with recipients’ prior beliefs. A randomized mixed-factorial online experiment involved 900 Jordanian young adults who evalu...
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