Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 31 Issue 1

Corporate survival in Industry 4.0 era: the enabling role of lean-digitized manufacturing

Morteza Ghobakhloo, Masood Fathi

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how small manufacturing firms can leverage their Information Technology (IT) resources to develop the lean-digitized manufacturing…

Analysis and synthesis of Industry 4.0 research landscape: Using latent semantic analysis approach

Aniruddha Anil Wagire, A.P.S. Rathore, Rakesh Jain

In recent years, Industry 4.0 has received immense attention from academic community, practitioners and the governments across nations resulting in explosive growth in the…

Evolving manufacturing mobility in Industry 4.0: the case of process industries

João Barata, Paulo Rupino Cunha, Sharon Coyle

The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to incorporating mobility into continuous manufacturing following the advent of Industry 4.0 (I4.0).

Microfactories and the new economies of scale and scope

Jose Orlando Montes, F. Xavier Olleros

The purpose of this paper is to explore the microfactory model, the elements that enable it and its implications. The authors argue that microfactories reduce the risks and costs…

Corporate makerspaces as innovation driver in companies: a literature review-based framework

Finn Rieken, Thomas Boehm, Mareike Heinzen, Mirko Meboldt

Corporates have recently invested in company-owned makerspaces with the goal to skim the potential of makerspaces as innovation driver. The purpose of this paper is to introduce…

Rethinking reverse logistics: role of additive manufacturing technology in metal remanufacturing

Danielle Strong, Michael Kay, Thomas Wakefield, Issariya Sirichakwal, Brett Conner, Guha Manogharan

Although the adoption of metal additive manufacturing (AM) for production has continuously grown, in-house access to production grade metal AM systems for small and medium…

The impact of reconfigurability on the operational performance of manufacturing systems

Isabela Maganha, Cristovao Silva, Luis Miguel D. F. Ferreira

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current level of reconfigurability implementation and its impact on manufacturing systems’ operational performance empirically.

What impacts do behaviour-based and buffer-based management mechanisms have on enterprise agility?

Sajad Fayezi, Andrew O’Loughlin, Ambika Zutshi, Amrik Sohal, Ajay Das

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of behaviour-based and buffer-based management mechanisms on enterprise agility using the lens of the agency theory.

Leadership behaviors during lean healthcare implementation: a review and longitudinal study

Guilherme Tortorella, Desirée H. van Dun, Amanda Gundes de Almeida

The purpose of this paper is to examine leadership behaviors associated with lean healthcare (LH) implementation and how they develop throughout the change process.