Industry 4.0 implications in logistics: an overview
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present some reflections regarding the adequate requirements and issues enabling organizations to be efficient, and fully operational in Logistics 4.0 context, where the emergence of the Industry Internet of Things (IIoT) promoted new challenges in logistic domain, which might require technological changes such as: high need for transparency (supply chain visibility); integrity control (right products, at right time, place, quantity condition and at the right cost).
About: This article is published in Procedia Manufacturing.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 477 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Humanitarian Logistics & Supply chain.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how rising technologies from Industry 4.0 can be integrated with circular economy (CE) practices to establish a business model that reuses and recycles wasted material such as scrap metal or e-waste.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore how rising technologies from Industry 4.0 can be integrated with circular economy (CE) practices to establish a business model that reuses and recycles wasted material such as scrap metal or e-waste.,The qualitative research method was deployed in three stages. Stage 1 was a literature review of concepts, successful factors and barriers related to the transition towards a CE along with sustainable supply chain management, smart production systems and additive manufacturing (AM). Stage 2 comprised a conceptual framework to integrate and evaluate the synergistic potential among these concepts. Finally, stage 3 validated the proposed model by collecting rich qualitative data based on semi-structured interviews with managers, researchers and professors of operations management to gather insightful and relevant information.,The outcome of the study is the recommendation of a circular model to reuse scrap electronic devices, integrating web technologies, reverse logistics and AM to support CE practices. Results suggest a positive influence from improving business sustainability by reinserting waste into the supply chain to manufacture products on demand.,The impact of reusing wasted materials to manufacture new products is relevant to minimising resource consumption and negative environmental impacts. Furthermore, it avoids hazardous materials ending up in landfills or in the oceans, seriously threatening life in ecosystems. In addition, reuse of wasted material enables the development of local business networks that generate jobs and improve economic performance.,First, the impact of reusing materials to manufacture new products minimises resource consumption and negative environmental impacts. The circular model also encourages keeping hazardous materials that seriously threaten life in ecosystems out of landfills and oceans. For this study, it was found that most urban waste is plastic and cast iron, leaving room for improvement in increasing recycling of scrap metal and similar materials. Second, the circular business model promotes a culture of reusing and recycling and motivates the development of collection and processing techniques for urban waste through the use of three-dimensional (3D) printing technologies and Industry 4.0. In this way, the involved stakeholders are focused on the technical parts of recycling and can be better dedicated to research, development and innovation because many of the processes will be automated.,The purpose of this study was to explore how Industry 4.0 technologies are integrated with CE practices. This allows for the proposal of a circular business model for recycling waste and delivering new products, significantly reducing resource consumption and optimising natural resources. In a first stage, the circular business model can be used to recycle electronic scrap, with the proposed integration of web technologies, reverse logistics and AM as a technological platform to support the model. These have several environmental, sociotechnical and economic implications for society.,The sociotechnical aspects are directly impacted by the circular smart production system (CSPS) management model, since it creates a new culture of reuse and recycling techniques for urban waste using 3D printing technologies, as well as Industry 4.0 concepts to increase production on demand and automate manufacturing processes. The tendency of the CSPS model is to contribute to deployment CE in the manufacture of new products or parts with AM approaches, generating a new path of supply and demand for society.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine barriers to the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector in the context of both developed and developing economies, and identify 15 barriers, which are analyzed by means of a Grey Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) approach.
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TL;DR: This study is first of its kind to identify industry 4.0 adoption barriers and develop hierarchical relationships between them using interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and fuzzy MICMAC methodology in the Indian manufacturing context.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present Industry 4.0 challenges and new customer requirements and challenged by global competition leading to fundamental changes of today's industry, and propose a solution to deal with these challenges.
Abstract: Enterprises are confronted with new customer requirements and challenged by global competition leading to fundamental changes of today’s industry. Against this background, at present Industry 4.0 i...
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TL;DR: This study approaches the issue through an analysis of almost 100 definitions of Industry 4.0 and related concepts, broken down into its underlying technological and non-technological definitional elements.
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TL;DR: This opening chapter gives a brief introduction of the development of IIoT introducing also the Digital Factory and cyber-physical systems as well as potentials regarding the application in Industry 4.0.
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TL;DR: Azevedo et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed the use of lean, agile, resilience and green management paradigms for the management of supply chains, which is a paradigm based on cost reduction and flexibility, focused on processes improvements through the reduction or elimination of the all "wastes".
Abstract: 1.1 What is the problem? Different management paradigms, such as the lean, agile, resilience and green have been adopted for the management of supply chains. The lean supply chain is a paradigm based on cost reduction and flexibility, focused on processes improvements, through the reduction or elimination of the all “wastes”, i.e., non-value adding operations (Womack et al., 1991). It embraces all the processes through the product life cycle, starting with the product design to the product selling, from the customer order to the delivery (Anand & Kodali, 2008). The agile supply chain paradigm intends to create the ability to respond rapidly and cost effectively to unpredictable changes in markets and increasing levels of environmental turbulence, both in terms of volume and variety (Agarwal et al., 2007). However, when organizations are subject to eventual disruptions, caused by sudden and unforeseen events (like economic and politic crisis or environmental catastrophes), the lean practices may have contributed to rupture conditions (Azevedo et al., 2008). In a global economy, with supply chains crossing several countries and continents, from raw material to final product, those events (even if they happen in a remote place) can create large-scale disruptions (Craighead et al., 2007). These disruptions are propagated throughout the supply chain, causing severe negative effects in supply chains leading to unfulfilled orders. So, it seems that what can be good from the competitive point of view, can cause a disaster on crisis situations; it may be worst if the organizations can not be resilient and robust enough to recover the loosed competitiveness. In actual competitive market, it is necessary that supply chains become more resilient to disruption events (Sheffi & Rice, 2005; Tang, 2006). Other pertinent issue in supply chain management is the environmental sustainability. The green supply chain management is as an important organizational philosophy to achieve corporate profit and market share objectives by reducing environmental risks and impacts while improving ecological efficiency of these organizations and their partners (Rao & Holt, 2005; Zhu et al., 2008). As a synergistic joining of environmental and supply chain management, the competitive and global dimensions of these two topics cannot go unnoticed by organizations.
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TL;DR: The state-of-the-art for Industrie 4.0 is being presented, key use cases are reported and an approach for establishing Industrie 5.0 in industry is presented.
Abstract: Industrie 4.0 is a strategic approach for integrating advanced control systems with internet technology enabling communication between people, products and complex systems. The key approach is to equip future products and production systems with embedded systems as a basis for smart sensor and smart actuators for enabling communication and intelligent operation control. These so-called Cyber-Physical- Systems challenge design and development processes and require appropriate engineering approaches. Within this contribution the state-of-the-art for Industrie 4.0 is being presented, key use cases are reported and an approach for establishing Industrie 4.0 in industry is presented. In this context, a fundamental issue is to understand the role of integrated safety, security, privacy and knowledge protection.
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