Innovation, Digital Transformation and Process Improvement Towards a Better Efficiency on Industrial and Management Systems
A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Practice in Social Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 February 2024) | Viewed by 55834
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Interests: tribology; coatings; manufacturing processes
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Interests: operational research; decision support models; supply chain management; logistics; transportations
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Interests: industrial management; lean; six-sigma; processes improvement; safety; sustainability
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Interests: industrial simulation; manufacturing; industry 4.0
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Process improvement has been deeply explored in increasing industrial and services competitiveness, reducing waste, making products more competitive and creating a better work environment through enhanced systems. Digitalization and innovation bring new concepts for manufacturing and services based on an increased connectivity and high technology. Are these concepts compatible? Usually, authors work just in one of these concepts, but being the digitalization more modern, it should be based on the knowledge created by the former one. Moreover, processes improvement should converge with the digitalization concept, creating the necessary roots to a real digitalization process. More than making a fusion between concepts, this Special Issue intends to collect high-quality contributions based on Process Improvement or Digitalization approaches describing new theories able to improve manufacturing or services systems, becoming them more sustainable.
The main topics for this Special Issue are as follows:
- Digitalization of industrial systems;
- Digitalization of systems supporting services;
- Development of Lean and Six-Sigma tools/philosophies/methodologies;
- Process improvement applied to manufacturing systems;
- Case studies on digitalization of industrial or services systems;
- Case studies on processes improvement tools development and application.
Prof. Dr. Francisco J. G. Silva
Prof. Dr. Maria Teresa Pereira
Prof. Dr. José Carlos Sá
Prof. Dr. Luís Pinto Ferreira
Guest Editors
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