Sense and Respond

Over the past century, the manufacturing industry has undergone a number of paradigm shifts: from the Ford assembly line (1900s) and its focus on efficiency to the Toyota production system (1960s) and its focus on effectiveness and JIDOKA; from flexible manufacturing (1980s) to reconfigurable manufacturing (1990s) (both following the trend of mass customization); and from agent-based manufacturing (2000s) to cloud manufacturing (2010s) (both deploying the value stream complexity into the material and information flow, respectively). The next natural evolutionary step is to provide value by creating industrial cyber-physical assets with human-like intelligence. This will only be possible by further integrating strategic smart sensor technology into the manufacturing cyber-physical value creating processes in which industrial equipment is monitored and controlled for analyzing compression, temperature, moisture, vibrations, and performance. For instance, in the new wave of the ‘Industrial Internet of Things’ (IIoT), smart sensors will enable the development of new applications by interconnecting software, machines, and humans throughout the manufacturing process, thus enabling suppliers and manufacturers to rapidly respond to changing standards. This reprint of “Sense and Respond” aims to cover recent developments in the field of industrial applications, especially smart sensor technologies that increase the productivity, quality, reliability, and safety of industrial cyber-physical value-creating processes

JIDOKA. Integration of Human and AI within Industry 4.0 Cyber Physical Manufacturing Systems

This book is about JIDOKA, a Japanese management technique coined by Toyota that consists of imbuing machines with human intelligence. The purpose of this compilation of research articles is to show industrial leaders innovative cases of digitization of value creation processes that have allowed them to improve their performance in a sustainable way. This book shows several applications of JIDOKA in the quest towards an integration of human and AI within Industry 4.0 Cyber Physical Manufacturing Systems. From the use of artificial intelligence to advanced mathematical models or quantum computing, all paths are valid to advance in the process of human–machine integration

Assessing the synergies between lean manufacturing and Industry 4.0

El llamado lean manufacturing (también “producción ajustada”, en España) ha sido durante años el modelo de éxito que ha llevado muchas empresas a la excelencia operacional. Sin embargo, los cambios en el mercado que requieren producción personalizada en masa barata parecen estar fuera del alcance de la metodología lean, más pensada para una producción más estable. La Industria 4.0 nace como un sistema prometedor para hacer frente a futuros desafíos en entornos productivos por medio de la automatización y el intercambio de datos gracias a los sistemas ciber-físicos y al Internet de las Cosas. La relación entre lean e industria 4.0 atrae a muchos investigadores en gestión y el número de publicaciones y referencias no para de aumentar con rapidez. No obstante, la falta de aplicaciones reales lleva a trabajos teóricos sobre posibles resultados en multitud de aspectos. El objetivo de este artículo es explorar y evaluar, por medio de una revisión sistemática que llega a setiembre de 2019, el trabajo previo sobre la relación entre lean manufacturing e industria 4.0, para poder entender si ambos enfoques se pueden integrar y si entre los elementos de ambas corrientes existen sinergias. Además, se realiza un estudio bibliométrico. Aunque distintos escenarios son posibles, muchos se refieren a una mejora de las herramientas lean gracias a la información en tiempo real. La mayoría muestra una evolución, no una revolución. El lean ofrece procesos estables que pueden ser automatizados y digitalizados con éxito. De otro modo las nuevas tecnologías no podrán aprovechar los procesos mal gestionados. El papel del personal se ha estudiado poco en los trabajos revisados.This work has been funded by el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Government of Spain) though the OPTHEUS project (ref. PGC2018-095080-B-I00), including European Regional Development Funds (ERDF).Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Lean Manufacturing in the context of Industry 4.0: a bibliometric study of world academic production published in journals indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science

Lean systems are used by industries that aim to improve their competitiveness through greater flexibility, lower costs, improvements in product quality and customer satisfaction. Industry 4.0 includes intelligent components and machines, integrated into a common digital network where flexible, powerful, and accessible microcontrollers are the main technology. Although Lean Manufacturing contrasts with some fundamentals of Industry 4.0, several studies have been carried out regarding the integration between these two areas. Through bibliometrics, this paper aims to investigate the advancement of scientific knowledge on the topic. For achieving this goal, documents published in journals indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science were analyzed. Among the results obtained, it is important to highlight the International Journal of Production Research, IFAC Papersonline and Procedia Manufacturing as the main sources; 41 countries published research on the topic, with Italy, Brazil, Germany, China, United States, United Kingdom, India and Spain among the most prolific; and, among the technologies and solutions related to the Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems Ciber-Físicos are the most recurrent topics in the papers

Tradition and Innovation in Construction Project Management

This book is a reprint of the Special Issue 'Tradition and Innovation in Construction Project Management' that was published in the journal Buildings

Indústria 4.0 e Sustentabilidade: Uma Aplicação da Internet das Coisas (IoT) na Proteção Ambiental

O objetivo deste artigo é identificar artigos de pesquisa que tratam da sinergia entre Indústria 4.0 e sustentabilidade, mais especificamente estuda as relações entre a Internet das Coisas (IoT) e proteção ambiental. Para isso, uma revisão sistemática da literatura foi conduzida, compreendendo análise qualitativa e de rede de palavras-chave. Os principais resultados obtidos mostram diversos fatores que justificam a sinergia entre Internet das Coisas e proteção ambiental, como a redução nos custos de monitoramento, análise em tempo real e análise online dos dados, permitindo que os tomadores de decisão possam responder às informações monitoradas em tempo hábil e melhorar a restauração ecológica, a proteção ambiental e a implementação de políticas. Além disso, a IoT garante eficiência nos processos, pois há um uso mínimo de recursos, materiais e energia podendo fornecer indicadores significativos para as políticas de saúde humana e ambientais.The purpose of this article is to identify research articles that deal with the synergy between Industry 4.0 and sustainability, more specifically the relationship between Internet of Things (IoT) and environmental protection. For this, a systematic review of the literature was conducted, comprising qualitative and network analysis of keywords. The main results obtained show several factors that justify the synergy between Internet of Things and environmental protection, such as the reduction in monitoring costs, real-time analysis and online data analysis, allowing decision makers to respond to the monitored information in time and improve ecological restoration, environmental protection and policy implementation. In addition, IoT guarantees efficiency in processes, because there is a minimum use of resources, materials and energy and it can provide significant indicators for human and environmental health policies