Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 35 Issue 4

Guest editorial: State-of-the-art for manufacturing management: advancing the research agenda and practice through literature reviews

Rob Dekkers, Pauline Found, Yang Cheng

Resiliency of manufacturing systems in the Industry 4.0 era – a systematic literature review

Sara El-Breshy, Ahmad E. Elhabashy, Hadi Fors, Asmaa Harfoush

With the emergence of the different Industry 4.0 technologies and the interconnectedness between the physical and cyber components within manufacturing systems, the manufacturing…

Food supply chain resilience in major disruptions

Pauline Anne Found, Dnyaneshwar Mogale, Ziran Xu, Jianhao Yang

Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) is a global pandemic that emerged at the end of 2019 and caused disruptions in global supply chains, particularly in the food supply chains that…

A comparative review of the complementary and conflicting nature of lean production and green manufacturing implementation

Tinotenda Machingura, Olufemi Adetunji, Catherine Maware

Buoyed by the increasing demand for improved productivity and environmentally conscious manufacturing, research in the area of lean production and green manufacturing has…

A system dynamics approach to the balanced scorecard: a review and dynamic strategy map for operations management

Ivo Hristov, Matteo Cristofaro, Riccardo Camilli, Luna Leoni

This paper aims to (1) identify the different performance drivers (lead indicators) and outcome measures (lag indicators) investigated in the literature concerning the four…

Technological capability and firm performance: a literature review with meta-analysis of studies into manufacturing firms

Mônica Fitz-Oliveira, Jorge Tello-Gamarra

Different studies have been conducted on the relationship between technological capability and firm performance. These studies obtain different values for the relationship, known…

Lean manufacturing in the last decade: insights from published case studies

Gaurav Kumar Badhotiya, Anand Gurumurthy, Yogesh Marawar, Gunjan Soni

Lean manufacturing (LM) concepts have been widely adopted in diverse industrial sectors. However, no literature review focusing on case studies describing LM implementation is…

Conceptualising the robotisation of manufacturing work: a thematic analysis of the literature using soft systems thinking as lens

Verena Stingl, Lasse Christiansen, Andreas Kornmaaler Hansen, Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Yang Cheng

The introduction of robots as value-adding “workers” on the shop floor triggers complex changes to manufacturing work. Such changes involve highly entangled relationships between…

Lean 4.0: a systematic literature review on the interaction between lean production and industry 4.0 pillars

Bassel Kassem, Maira Callupe, Monica Rossi, Matteo Rossini, Alberto Portioli-Staudacher

Prior to managing a company’s processes in the presence of a combination of paradigms, there is a need to understand their underlying interaction. This paper systematically…

Enhancing strategy for Industry 4.0 implementation through maturity models and standard reference architectures alignment

Linda Salma Angreani, Annas Vijaya, Hendro Wicaksono

A maturity model for Industry 4.0 (I4.0 MM) with influencing factors is designed to address maturity issues in adopting Industry 4.0. Standardisation in I4.0 supports…

Design of product-service systems in SMEs: a review of current research and suggestions for future directions

Jennie Åkesson, Angelina Sundström, Glenn Johansson, Koteshwar Chirumalla, Sten Grahn, Anders Berglund

Despite increasing focus among scholars and practitioners on the design of product-service systems (PSS), there exists no compilation of current knowledge on the role played by…

A systematic review with meta-analysis of supply chain agility antecedents and its effect on firm performance

Allahyar Beigi Firoozi, Mohammad Bashokouh, Naser Seifollahi, Ghasem Zarei

The rising complexity of business changes has increasingly highlighted the requirements to provide a comprehensive and empirical framework for the supply chain agility (SCA). A…

Challenges and benefits for small and medium enterprises in the transformation to smart manufacturing: a systematic literature review and framework

Ramesh Krishnan

Smart manufacturing is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry by shifting the focus from traditional manufacturing to a more intelligent, interconnected and responsive system…