Enhancing Technological Innovation with the Implementation of a Sustainable Manufacturing Community

AbstractThe global challenge of sustainable value creation can be coped with by raising human awareness about it all around the world. Increasing process effectiveness and efficiency in view of shrinking natural resources, increasing competitiveness and profitability by selling functionality and service instead of physical products give strategic references for the development of the so called sustainable manufacturing community (SMC). Ubiquitous application of modern information and communication technology (ICT) for shaping responsible global citizenship by knowledge transfer can expand learning and teaching productivity by magnitudes, can strengthen the leverage of help for self-help, can enable initiative and creativity for entrepreneurial approaches in the global village without losing local differentiation. Elements of an architecture for an SMC and the concrete case of smart wheel urban mobility with an outlook for an exemplary German Vietnamese collaboration perspective are considered

A Review Content Analysis Between Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Manufacturing

Manufacturing companies have been facing a dynamic environment due the Industry 4.0 and sustainable development phenomena and, consequently, a greatest attention from researchers has been attracted to investigate how the 4th Industrial Revolution interact or influence sustainable manufacturing. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the academic progress regarding Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Manufacturing simultaneously, offering as the main result a review content analysis. More specifically, a bibliometric analysis provides a list of prominent journals and popular conferences and the summary of the main authors and their institutions. Moreover, a content analysis presents a semantic network, illustrating current research efforts and suggesting future research directions, identified by topics. In sum, the first topic suggests the need to explore and comprehend the interaction between the areas. The second topic brings the importance to analyse and understand requirements needed to successfully implement. The last topic shows the different ways to implement and assess the sustainable manufacturing in the context of Industry 4.0