Evaluating challenges to Industry 4.0 initiatives for supply chain sustainability in emerging economies

Luthra, Sunil; Mangla, Sachin Kumar

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“…Being a highly integrated and collaborative manufacturing paradigm, a smart factory is supposed to promote the environmental sustainability of its products, operations and supply chains (de Sousa Jabbour, Jabbour, Foropon, & Filho, ; Luthra & Mangla, ). Based on examining this real‐world case study, we observe that the implementation of smart equipment and systems facilitates the vertical integration at the factory‐level, as well as improves the environmental performance of the selected refrigerator.…”

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Can smart factories bring environmental benefits to their products?: A case study of household refrigerators

Zhang

Guo

2019

J of Industrial Ecology

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Smart factories have been widely adopted as a new manufacturing paradigm, in which the state‐of‐the‐art technologies are introduced to improve relevant processes. Yet, whether smart factories affect the environmental performance remains unknown. In this article, we examine the environmental performance of a smart refrigerator factory by comparing the environmental impacts of its product to a similar model that is produced in a traditional fashion. This article quantifies and verifies the theoretically predicted impacts of this smart factory on the individual processes. Though the overall differences in the two models are quite minor, we find that this smart factory can notably reduce the values of most impact categories associated with the parts and refrigerator production; the reduction in the value of climate change is 33%. Owing to higher material efficiency—raw material savings in this smart factory contributes to the greatest reductions in most categorized impacts—the contribution to the reduction of climate change is 39%. Yet, all categorized impacts of procurement and delivery are increased due to product personalization and direct delivery. The results of sensitivity analysis show that promoting product modularity, adopting clean energy such as wind power can further improve the environmental performance of the selected refrigerator. The introduction of auxiliary equipment and systems slightly increases the value of each category; yet their impacts are negligible compared to their benefits as facilitating production efficiency. Based on the quantitative results, recommendations are given to improve the environmental performance of smart factory, including optimizing current strategies and promoting horizontal and end‐to‐end integration.

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Can smart factories bring environmental benefits to their products?: A case study of household refrigerators

Zhang

Guo

2019

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…One of these challenges for manufacturing companies is to leverage the benefits of industry 4.0 to integrate sustainability into traditional business models [39,41]. Industry 4.0 can be considered as a new business mindset, helping companies in their sustainable transition [42]. In specific, industry 4.0 offers opportunities both in environmental terms by increasing the efficiency of the production process and in social terms, for instance by improving working time models and increasing employee satisfaction and productivity [43].…”

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Sustainability Transition in Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing with the Triple-Layered Business Model Canvas

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Sustainability transition is becoming increasingly relevant at a manufacturing level, especially for resource-and energy-intensive industries. In addition, the 4.0 industry paradigm opens new opportunities in terms of sustainable development. The aim of this research is to analyze the introduction of sustainability in the corporate value proposition, through the evolution from a traditional to a sustainable business model. The business model innovation will be investigated in the case of a ceramic tile producer in the district of Sassuolo, Italy. The company has introduced several sustainability practices over the years and, through investments in Industry 4.0 technologies, is able to conduct impact assessments of its production process. The applied tool for the business model transition will be the Triple-Layered Business Model Canvas by Joyce and Paquin. The results illustrate the new company's sustainable value proposition, considering all three pillars of sustainability: environment, economy, and society. Despite the limitations resulting from the individual case study, the findings can be easily adapted to other ceramic tile companies in the sector. Besides, the paper could inspire other manufacturing companies in the drafting of a sustainable business model. The paper explores the still limited literature on the application of sustainable business models in operational scenarios.

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“…However, such technological integration have major consequences on the workforce, as it will not only witness alterations in existing jobs but also the inevitable loss of a number of them [22]. Thus, it becomes legitimate that some workers feel anxiety and reluctance to change [23,24]. In addition, the radical nature of the change and the complexity of the implemented technology may influence employees' skills development and satisfaction, which will affect the success of the change [25].…”

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Human-Machine Interaction and Human Resource Management Perspective for Collaborative Robotics Implementation and Adoption

Libert¹,

Mosconi²,

Cadieux³

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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The shift towards human-robot collaboration (HRC) has the potential to increase productivity and sustainability, while reducing costs for the manufacturing industries. Indeed, it holds great potential for workplaces, allowing individuals to forsake repetitive or physically demanding jobs to focus on safer and more fulfilling ones. Still, integration of humans and machines in organizations presents great challenges to IS scholars due to the complexity of aligning digitalization and human resources. A knowledge gap does persist about organizational implications when it comes to implement collaborative robotics in the workplace and to support proper HRC. Thus, this paper aims to identify recommended human resources management (HRM) practices from previous research about human-robot interaction (HRI). As our results highlight that few studies attempted to fill the gap, a conceptual framework is proposed. It integrates HRM practices, technology adoption dimensions and main determinants of HRC, in the objective to support collaborative robotics implementation in organizations.

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Evaluating challenges to Industry 4.0 initiatives for supply chain sustainability in emerging economies

Cited by 591 publications

References 48 publications

Can smart factories bring environmental benefits to their products?: A case study of household refrigerators

Can smart factories bring environmental benefits to their products?: A case study of household refrigerators

Sustainability Transition in Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing with the Triple-Layered Business Model Canvas

Human-Machine Interaction and Human Resource Management Perspective for Collaborative Robotics Implementation and Adoption

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