Industrial Management and Engineering in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2022) | Viewed by 54150
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ergonomics; workplace design; industrial engineering; manufacturing processes; maintenance management; strategic management; manufacturing technologies; Industry 4.0, corporate social responsibility; operations; industrial heritage
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Dear Colleagues,
Matching industrial capabilities and society needs is challenging for companies. Moreover, being capable of performing operations with the efficient management of information, materials, and financial flows at the lowest risk possible to maximize a company´s overall value and optimize the impact on its related environment plays a fundamental role in current global supply chain networks.
In this context, practitioners often fail to holistically consider all the related factors in different planning horizons (long-, medium-, and short-term) of a certain decision, leading to partial, suboptimal, or even negative decisions. Reasons for this can vary from lack of information to no consideration of various future scenarios or delays in the decision-making process. In addition, researchers do not often consider the status in practical fields when developing new concepts or create concepts without coordinated work with organizations in which they are already in test or use phases.
Thus, the aim of this Special Issue is to develop integrated approaches to increase organizational capabilities and apply new industrial engineering methods and technologies to deal with current and future challenges. As a result, the fourth industrial revolution opens new opportunities for researchers and practitioners to generate concepts, methods, tools, and systems from the design to the end of product and service life cycles to increase organizational competitiveness and to secure viability in the long-term. These developments seek to provide a toolbox for this purpose, considering the human factor as a core element. The goal is to increase the efficiency of the clustering of manufacturing and assembly companies as well as integrated service providers and their related environments.
This Special Issue is focused on applied research in industrial engineering and aims to contribute to overcoming challenges in both organizations and societies. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit manuscripts concerning the broad multidisciplinary topic of industrial management and engineering (e.g., strategic management, sustainability and corporate social responsibility, business transformation, supply chain management, production management, manufacturing and assembly systems, service management, human factor engineering, information management, and Industry 4.0) pertinent to the continuous improvement of industrial and service organizations within the fourth industrial revolution.
We welcome submissions, including original papers and reviews, dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Management systems;
- Strategic management;
- Organizational behavior;
- Decision-making processes;
- Sustainability and corporate social responsibility;
- Investment planning;
- Finance management;
- Procurement strategies;
- Project management;
- Risk management;
- Leadership;
- Business transformation;
- Supply chain management;
- Production management;
- Procurement management;
- Distribution management;
- Maintenance management;
- Energy management;
- Manufacturing and assembly systems;
- Mechanical engineering;
- Service management;
- Asset management/life cycle management;
- Human factor engineering;
- Design for manufacturing and assembly;
- Occupational health and safety;
- Workplace design and ergonomics;
- Lean management;
- Quality management;
- Information management and IT systems;
- Communication technologies and management;
- Industrial revolutions and Industry 4.0;
- Technologies development and new technologies;
- Modeling and simulation;
- Digital twins.
Dr. Manuel García-García
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- strategic management
- sustainability and corporate social responsibility
- business transformation
- supply chain management
- production management
- manufacturing and assembly systems
- service management
- human factor engineering
- information management
- Industry 4.0
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