Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 33 Issue 6

Drivers and barriers of Industry 4.0 technology adoption among manufacturing SMEs: a systematic review and transformation roadmap

Morteza Ghobakhloo, Mohammad Iranmanesh, Mantas Vilkas, Andrius Grybauskas, Azlan Amran

The present study offers a holistic but detailed understanding of the factors that might affect small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies to…

Analysing the alignment between the Green Lean and Circular strategies: towards a Circular Lean approach

Florencia Kalemkerian, Javier Santos, Martin Tanco, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Elisabeth Viles

Green Lean tools are aligned with the Circular Economy strategy as they aim at reducing waste, however, they miss the creation of value through waste. Therefore, this paper…

The nature and role of informal resilience practices in the performance of lean production systems

Bruna Dones Gayer, Tarcisio Abreu Saurin, Michel Anzanello

Resilience in lean production systems (LPSs) relies on both formal and informal practices. Considering that these latter are relatively less explored, this paper describes the…

The influence of manufacturing contexts on additive manufacturing-enabled competitive capabilities

Mojtaba Khorram Niaki, Fabio Nonino, Keivan Tafakkori, S. Ali Torabi, Iman Kazemian

This paper presents a contingency analysis of additive manufacturing's (AM) impacts, proposes a novel form of AM-enabled competitive capabilities and explores manufacturing…

Investigating relationships between production transfer management and transfer success

Maria Flavia Mogos, Anna Fredriksson, Erlend Alfnes, Jan Ola Strandhagen

This paper explores the operationalization of production network coordination – the production transfer (PT) – and the relationships between transfer risk sources, preventive…

Comparing viewpoints of top management, consultants and employees about Lean Six Sigma

Neeraj Yadav, Ali Al Owad

Despite extensive research on Lean Six Sigma (LSS), it predominantly remains focussed on organisational aspects. Individual perceptions were often sidelined. Comparative studies…

Buyer-supplier dyad on performance and sustainability

Zirong Hao, Mark Goh, Jinxia Jiao, ChenGuang Liu

This paper investigates how the configuration of a supplier’s sustainable operations practices (SOPs) with a high sustainable performance affects a buyer’s organizational…

Drum-Buffer-Rope in an engineering-to-order productive system: a case study in a Brazilian aerospace company

Eduardo Santos Telles, Daniel Pacheco Lacerda, Maria Isabel Wolf Morandi, Rodrigo Ellwanger, Fernando Bernardi de Souza, Fabio Sartori Piran

Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) is a method to adjust production flows, synchronize the release of materials and enable a process of focused improvement in production systems. Literature…