The TQM Journal: Volume 36 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Strategic alignment between Industry 4.0 and operational excellence methodologies for smart manufacturing

Rajeev Rathi, Mahender Singh Kaswan

Integrating operational excellence strategies with Industry 4.0 technologies through reconfigurable manufacturing system practices

Rajesh Pansare, Gunjan Yadav, Madhukar R. Nagare

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic and changing market demands, competition for manufacturing industries is increasing and they face numerous challenges. In such a case, it is…

Integrating Industry 4.0 and Total Productive Maintenance for global sustainability

Ashutosh Samadhiya, Rajat Agrawal, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes

The integration of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is an emerging model, and the global pressure of various stakeholders raises scepticism of any…

Unveiling the relation between the challenges and benefits of operational excellence and industry 4.0: a hybrid fuzzy decision-making approach

Seyed Hossein Razavi Hajiagha, Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji, Samin Moradi, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Saeed Alaei

Operational excellence (OpEx) is a direction toward learning and developing an excellent culture in all aspects of an organization. To reach this culture, revolutionizing…

Prioritizing the barriers of green smart manufacturing using AHP in implementing Industry 4.0: a case from Indian automotive industry

Sucheta Agarwal, Kuldeep Kumar Saxena, Vivek Agrawal, Jitendra Kumar Dixit, Chander Prakash, Dharam Buddhi, Kahtan A. Mohammed

Manufacturing companies are increasingly using green smart production (GSM) as a tactic to boost productivity since it has a number of advantages over conventional manufacturing…

Unleashing an ML-based selection criteria for economic lot sizing in a smart batch-type production system

Narinder Kumar, Bikram Jit Singh, Pravin Khope

Inventory models are quantitative ways of calculating low-cost operating systems. These models can be either deterministic or stochastic. A deterministic model hypothesizes…

Critical challenges of integrating OPEX strategies with I4.0 technologies in manufacturing SMEs: a few pieces of evidence from developing economies

Sudhanshu Joshi, Manu Sharma, Shalini Bartwal, Tanuja Joshi, Mukesh Prasad

The study proposes to determine the impending challenges to lean integration with Industry 4.0 (I4.0) in manufacturing that aims at achieving desired operational performance…

Strengthening the social performance of Indian SMEs in the digital era: a fuzzy DEMATEL analysis of enablers

Ravinder Kumar, Ubaid Ur Rehman, Rakesh Kumar Phanden

In the modern digital age technologies like Industry 4.0 has revolutionized the manufacturing sector. There are many economic and technological advantages of digitalization. Along…

Analyzing critical factors of strategic alignment between operational excellence and Industry 4.0 technologies in smart manufacturing

Melisa Ozbiltekin-Pala, Yigit Kazancoglu, Anil Kumar, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Sunil Luthra

The manufacturing sector is highly competitive and operationally complex. Therefore, the strategic alignment between operational excellence methodologies and Industry 4.0…

Evaluation of organizational variables of quality 4.0 in digital transformation: the study of an Indian manufacturing company

Ankesh Mittal, Vimal Kumar, Pratima Verma, Arpit Singh

The study aims to identify organizational variables of quality 4.0 for an Indian manufacturing company in the case of digital transformation. Furthermore, the organization…

Analysis of critical success factors for successful integration of lean six sigma and Industry 4.0 for organizational excellence

Maharshi Samanta, Naveen Virmani, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Syed Nadimul Haque, Mohammed Jamshed

Manufacturing industries are facing dynamic challenges in today’s highly competitive world. In the recent past, integrating Industry 4.0 with the lean six sigma improvement…

Integration of Lean manufacturing and Industry 4.0: a bibliometric analysis

Naveen Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Sahil Gupta, Mahender Singh Kaswan, Maninder Singh

The purpose of this study is to identify the prominent research constituents in the domain of integration of Lean manufacturing and Industry 4.0 techniques and analyze the…

Achieving organizational performance by integrating industrial Internet of things in the SMEs: a developing country perspective

Subhodeep Mukherjee, Manish Mohan Baral, Venkataiah Chittipaka, Ramji Nagariya, Bharat Singh Patel

This research investigates the adoption of the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) in SMEs to achieve and increase organizational performance. With the latest technology, small…

Fundamental pillars for industry 4.0 development: implementation framework and challenges in manufacturing environment

Mahipal Singh, Rekha Goyat, Renu Panwar

At the present time, Industry 4.0 has proven its effectiveness and significance in automation and data exchange within industries across different sectors worldwide. In the…

Implementation of environmental lean six sigma framework in an Indian medical equipment manufacturing unit: a case study

Mahipal Singh, Rajeev Rathi

The present environmental concern has enforced manufacturing firms to re-evaluate their business practices to reduce the adverse impact on the environment with optimum production…

Identifying Industry 4.0 technologies enablers for knowledge management – a scoping review

Ana Paula Lista Rossetti, Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Marina Bouzon, Shang Gao, Toong Khuan Chan

This paper aims at identifying the main contributions of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies to the enhancement of knowledge management (KM).

A study on the barriers that impact the adoption of Industry 4.0 in the context of Brazilian companies

Raphaella Ferreira Cordeiro, Luciana Paula Reis, June Marques Fernandes

This research aims to evaluate the impact of barriers experienced by Brazilian companies in adopting Industry 4.0 (I4.0).