Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 33 Issue 5

Industry 4.0 enabling manufacturing flexibility: technology contributions to individual resource and shop floor flexibility

Daisy Valle Enrique, Érico Marcon, Fernando Charrua-Santos, Alejandro G. Frank

This paper focuses on understanding the contribution of Industry 4.0 technologies to manufacturing flexibility.

A sustainable circular 3D printing model for recycling metal scrap in the automotive industry

Daniel Luiz de Mattos Nascimento, Renan Mury Nepomuceno, Rodrigo Goyannes Gusmão Caiado, Juan Manuel Maqueira, José Moyano-Fuentes, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes

Industries and businesses are pursuing Industry 4.0 technologies as well as adopting a circular approach focused on improving manufacturing processes through the reduction of…

Implementing workload control through lean-based project in MTO-MTS environment

Kaustav Kundu, Matteo Rossini, Federica Costa

Due to high customization, companies, which used to follow the make-to-stock (MTS) strategy, are now adopting the make-to-order (MTO) strategy along with MTS in order to cope…

Green practices and sustainability performance: the exploratory links of organizational culture and quality improvement practices

Lillian Fok, Susan Zee, Yun-Chen Tsai Morgan

The purpose of this study is to examine the direct and indirect effects of organizational culture and quality improvement practices on the relationship between green practices and…

Lean R&D practices and its impact on organizational performance: evidence from R&D-based manufacturers in Malaysia

Owee Kowang Tan, Nabila Mohd Hamel, Choon Hee Ong, Chin Fei Goh, Amran Rasli

The study aims to explore how lean research and development (R&D) tools and techniques (T&T: i.e. R&D hard practices) affect the relationship between lean R&D soft practices and…

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on manufacturing operations and supply chain resilience: effects and response strategies

Ali Bastas, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes

Manufacturing organisations are striving towards adapting and responding to the unprecedented challenges posed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, along with the…

Value-capture in digital servitization

Girish Kumar Agarwal, Johan Simonsson, Mats Magnusson, Kim Sundtoft Hald, Anders Johanson

Digital capabilities in operations and delivery through constant data acquisition and future predictions have accelerated digital servitization through reduced uncertainty. New…

Business-to-business platform ecosystem practices and their impacts on firm performance: evidence from high-tech manufacturing firms

Chun Hsien Wang, Ching-Hsing Chang, Zui Chih Rick Lee

This study attempts to reveal product platform strategy via business-to-business (B2B) platform ecosystems. The authors advance the views of platform ecosystems in the innovation…