An Environmental-Based Perspective Framework: Integrating IoT Technology into a Sustainable Automotive Supply Chain

Purpose - Over the next decade, humanity is going to face big environmental problems, and considering these serious issues, businesses are adopting environmentally responsible practices. To put forward specific measures to achieve a more prosperous environmental future, this study aims to develop an environment-based perspective framework by integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) technology into a sustainable automotive supply chain (SASC). Design/methodology/approach - The study presents a conceptual environmental framework - based on 29 factors constituting four stakeholders’ rectifications - that holistically assess the SASC operations as part of the ReSOLVE model utilizing IoT. Then, experts from the SASC, IoT, and sustainability areas participated in two rigorous rounds of a Delphi study to validate the framework. Findings – The results indicate that the conceptual environmental framework proposed would help companies enhance the connectivity between major IoT tools in SASC, which would help develop congruent strategies for inducing sustainable growth. Originality/value - This study adds value to existing knowledge on SASC sustainability and digitalization in the context where the SASC is under enormous pressure, competitiveness, and increased variability

Industrial Revolution and Environmental Sustainability: An Analytical Interpretation of Research Constituents in Industry 4.0

Purpose – Environmental sustainability is quickly becoming one of the most critical issues in industry development. This study aims to conduct a systematic literature review through which the author can provide various research areas to work on for future researchers and provide insight into industry 4.0 and environmental sustainability. Design/methodology/approach – This study accomplishes this by performing a backward analysis using text mining on the Scopus database. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) was used to analyze the corpus of 4,364 articles published between 2013 and 2023. The authors generated 10 clusters using keywords in the industrial revolution and environmental sustainability domain, highlighting ten research avenues for further exploration. Findings – In this study, three research questions discuss the role of environmental sustainability with industry 4.0. The author predicted 10 clusters treated as recent trends on which more insight is required from future researchers. The authors provided year-wise analysis, top authors, top countries, top sources, and network analysis related to the topic. Finally, the study provided industrialization's effect on environmental sustainability and the future aspect of automation. Originality/value – This research is the first-ever study in which a natural language processing technique is implemented to predict future research areas based on the keywords-document relationship

The 1st Advanced Manufacturing Student Conference (AMSC21) Chemnitz, Germany 15–16 July 2021

The Advanced Manufacturing Student Conference (AMSC) represents an educational format designed to foster the acquisition and application of skills related to Research Methods in Engineering Sciences. Participating students are required to write and submit a conference paper and are given the opportunity to present their findings at the conference. The AMSC provides a tremendous opportunity for participants to practice critical skills associated with scientific publication. Conference Proceedings of the conference will benefit readers by providing updates on critical topics and recent progress in the advanced manufacturing engineering and technologies and, at the same time, will aid the transfer of valuable knowledge to the next generation of academics and practitioners. *** The first AMSC Conference Proceeding (AMSC21) addressed the following topics: Advances in “classical” Manufacturing Technologies, Technology and Application of Additive Manufacturing, Digitalization of Industrial Production (Industry 4.0), Advances in the field of Cyber-Physical Systems, Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies throughout the entire product Life Cycle, Human-machine-environment interaction and Management and life cycle assessment.:- Advances in “classical” Manufacturing Technologies - Technology and Application of Additive Manufacturing - Digitalization of Industrial Production (Industry 4.0) - Advances in the field of Cyber-Physical Systems - Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies throughout the entire product Life Cycle - Human-machine-environment interaction - Management and life cycle assessmen

Supply chain challenges in the semiconductor industry

Abstract. This thesis focuses on the challenges of semiconductor supply chain management from the perspective of industrial engineering. The aim of this thesis is to form an overview of the situation, reviewing the factors by which the current events can mostly be explained, and certain remedies presented. The work includes a literature review that discusses the semiconductor manufacturing process, the nature of cyclical markets, the characteristics of demand and supply shocks, and the concept of the bullwhip effect. The results of the literature and market analysis are combined with expert interviews to form a framework on which conclusions and recommendations will be built. The findings of this study point to divergent incentives and patterns of action, the combined effect of which exacerbates the shortage, partly consciously but also unknowingly. Cooperation and communication between retailers, manufacturers, logistics companies, and raw material producers in certain high-risk sectors of the supply chain will continue to play a key role in minimizing similar shocks in the future. The most effective methods are expanding information flows, as well as direct cooperation between different parts of the supply chain. This development is likely to be further supported in the future by continuous progress in information technology, the expansion of data management, and the improvement of analytics tools. The study provides an extensive and current overview of a historically unique situation, the long-term effects of which can only be speculated for the time being. Based on the findings, it is possible to make recommendations for organizations operating in the current or somewhat similar circumstances, as well as to create a sort of period piece from the thinking and choices of decision-makers during a crisis for subsequent research.Tilaus-toimitusketjun haasteet puolijohdeteollisuudessa. Tiivistelmä. Tämä diplomityö käsittelee puolijohteiden tilaus-toimitusketjujen haasteita tuotantotalouden näkökulmasta. Tavoitteena on muodostaa yleiskuva puolijohdepulasta kerraten tapahtumat, joilla ainakin suurin osa taustatekijöistä voidaan selittää ja esittää niiden varalta torjuntakeinoja. Työhön kuuluu kirjallisuuskatsaus, jossa käydään läpi puolijohteiden valmistusprosessi pääpiirteineen, syklisten markkinoiden luonne, kysyntä- ja tarjontashokkien piirteitä, sekä esitellään Piiskanisku-ilmiön käsite. Kirjallisuus- ja markkinakatsauksen tulokset yhdistetään lopulta asiantuntijahaastatteluihin ja muodostetaan viitekehys, jonka ympärille johtopäätökset ja suositukset rakennetaan. Työn tulokset osoittavat erisuuntaisiin toimintamalleihin, joiden yhteisvaikutus pahentaa pulaa osittain tietoisesti, mutta myös osapuolten tiedostamatta. Keskeisimmässä roolissa vastaavien kysyntä- ja tarjontashokkien minimoinnissa tulee jatkossa olemaan tietyillä toimitusketjujen kannalta riskipitoisilla aloilla toimivien tilaajien, tuottajien ja raaka-ainevalmistajien välinen yhteistyö. Menetelmistä tehokkaimpia on suora piiskaniskuilmiöön puuttuminen informaatiovirtoja tehostamalla ja ketjun osien välinen nopeampi kommunikaatio. Tätä kehityskulkua tulevat todennäköisesti jatkossa tukemaan myös tietotekninen kehitys, datanhallinnan laajentuminen ja analytiikan parantuminen. Tutkimus tarjoaa laajan ja ajankohtaisen yleiskatsauksen historiallisesti ainutlaatuiseen tilanteeseen, jonka pitkäaikaisia vaikutuksia voidaan toistaiseksi vain arvailla. Tulosten pohjalta voidaan laatia toimintasuosituksia nykyisissä tai nykyisiä joltakin osin vastaavissa olosuhteissa toimiville organisaatioille, sekä luoda myöhemmin ajankuvaa kriisin keskellä päätöksiä tekevien tahojen ajattelusta ja valinnoista

The materials processing research base of the Materials Processing Center

The goals and activities of the center are discussed. The center activities encompass all engineering materials including metals, ceramics, polymers, electronic materials, composites, superconductors, and thin films. Processes include crystallization, solidification, nucleation, and polymer synthesis

The Second ICASE/LaRC Industry Roundtable: Session Proceedings

The second ICASE/LaRC Industry Roundtable was held October 7-9, 1996 at the Williamsburg Hospitality House, Williamsburg, Virginia. Like the first roundtable in 1994, this meeting had two objectives: (1) to expose ICASE and LaRC scientists to industrial research agendas; and (2) to acquaint industry with the capabilities and technology available at ICASE, LaRC and academic partners of ICASE. Nineteen sessions were held in three parallel tracks. Of the 170 participants, over one third were affiliated with various industries. Proceedings from the different sessions are summarized in this report

Energy: A continuing bibliography with indexes, issue 38

This bibliography lists 1367 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system from April 1, 1983 through June 30, 1983

Resilience, Reliability, and Recoverability (3Rs)

Recent natural and human-made disasters, mortgage derivatives crises, and the need for stable systems in different areas have renewed interest in the concept of resilience, especially as it relates to complex industrial systems with mechanical failures. This concept in the engineering systems (infrastructure) domain could be interpreted as the probability that system conditions exceed an irrevocable tipping point. But the probability in this subject covers the different areas that different approaches and indicators can evaluate. In this context, reliability engineering is used the reliability (uptime) and recoverability (downtime) indicators (or performance indicators) as the most useful probabilistic tools for performance measurement. Therefore, our research penalty area is the resilience concept in combination with reliability and recoverability. It must be said that the resilience evaluators must be considering a diversity of knowledge sources. In this thesis, the literature review points to several important implications for understanding and applying resilience in the engineering area and The Arctic condition. Indeed, we try to understand the application and interaction of different performance-based resilience concepts. In this way, a collection of the most popular performance-based resilience analysis methods with an engineering perspective is added as a state-of-the-art review. The performance indicators studies reveal that operational conditions significantly affect the components, industry activities, and infrastructures performance in various ways. These influential factors (or heterogeneity) can broadly be studied into two groups: observable and unobservable risk factors in probability analysis of system performance. The covariate-based models (regression), such as proportional hazard models (PHM), and their extent are the most popular methods for quantifying observable and unobservable risk factors. The report is organized as follows: After a brief introduction of resilience, chapters 2,3 priorly provide a comprehensive statistical overview of the reliability and recoverability domain research by using large scientific databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. As the first subsection, a detailed review of publications in the reliability and recoverability assessment of the engineering systems in recent years (since 2015) is provided. The second subsection of these chapters focuses on research done in the Arctic region. The last subsection presents covariate-based reliability and recoverability models. Finally, in chapter 4, the first part presents the concept and definitions of resilience. The literature reviews four main perspectives: resilience in engineering systems, resilience in the Arctic area, the integration of “Resilience, Reliability, and Recoverability (3Rs)”, and performance-based resilience models

ME-EM 2018-19 Annual Report

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Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Production Systems and Logistics (CPSL 2021)

Proceedings of the CPSL 202