Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 31 Issue 4

The impact of Industry 4.0 implementation on supply chains

Abhijeet Ghadge, Merve Er Kara, Hamid Moradlou, Mohit Goswami

The study aims to analyse the impact of Industry 4.0 implementation on supply chains and develop an implementation framework by considering potential drivers and barriers for the…

Human Capital 4.0: a workforce competence typology for Industry 4.0

Emmanuel Flores, Xun Xu, Yuqian Lu

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to raise and address an important change for the human capital in the future of Industry 4.0, and to propose a human-focused perspective for…

Impact of improvement tools on standardization and stability goal practices : An empirical examination of US automotive firms

Raed EL-Khalil, Zachary Moran Leffakis, Paul C. Hong

This paper empirically examines the implementation pattern of different types of lean management (LM) techniques on the shop-floor. Based on the socio-technical systems framework…

A framework proposition to identify customer value through lean practices

Carla Beatriz da Luz Peralta, Márcia Elisa Echeveste, Fernando Henrique Lermen, Arthur Marcon, Guilherme Tortorella

Customer value is the key to successful innovation management. This task is considered complex and abstract. For this reason, several models have been proposed to that end, among…

Lean and agile manufacturing: complementary or competing capabilities?

Tahir Iqbal, Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja, Mohammad Khurrum Bhutta, Shahzad Naeem Qureshi

Lean (TQM and JIT) and agile manufacturing (AM) are viewed as strategic capabilities that can help firms to meet diverse set of market demands. However, the question whether lean…

A maturity model for the servitization of product-centric companies

Federico Adrodegari, Nicola Saccani

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the servitization phenomenon of product-centric companies, by identifying the resources, capabilities and…

An integrative approach for structuring and prioritising eco-innovation determinants with a survey in knowledge-based companies

Aryana Shahin, Narges Imanipour, Arash Shahin, Lincoln C. Wood

This study aims to develop a comprehensive set of determinants and sub-determinant of eco-innovation (EI) and to propose an approach for their structuring and prioritisation.