...Xuefeng Zhang; Xiaoman Zhao; Ruoyu Chen; Huamin Wu Purpose This paper aims to explore the factors influencing governments’ and manufacturers’ decision-making in the context of digital transformation, and to examine the role that government subsidies play in manufacturers’ digital transformation...

... determinants by integrating data envelopment analysis (DEA) with artificial neural networks (ANN). Design/methodology/approach A slack-based measure (SBM) within DEA was used to evaluate the WCME of 1,388 firms in the Indian manufacturing sector across nine industries over the period from April 2009...

...Amol Vasant Bhide; Milind M. Akarte Purpose This paper aims to assess the feasibility of a hybrid manufacturing and remanufacturing system (HMRS) for essential commodities in the context of COVID-19. Specifically, it emphasises using HMRS based on costs associated with various manufacturing...

... Operations management Manufacturing Flexibility Modeling Supply chain management © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Figure 2. Various GSCM practices and their factors There are some limitations in previous research which...

...Tharun Thomas; Saleeshya P.G.; Suresh M. Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop a CMMI model for the manufacturing industry and to find an appropriate method to assess the CMMI level. The CMMI level indicates how well the processes are planned, performed, measured and controlled, thus...

... and duly validated with experts’ opinions. Integrated fuzzy set theory and decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) approach are demonstrated to explore the causal relationships among influencing factors of the LSS implementation. An empirical case analysis of an Indian manufacturing...

...Benny Lianto; Muhammad Dachyar; Tresna Priyana Soemardi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and screen continuous innovation capability enablers (CICEs) in Indonesia’s manufacturing sectors, develop a relationship among these enablers and determine their driving power and dependence...

...Piyush Jaiswal; Amit Singh; Subhas C. Misra; Amaresh Kumar Purpose This study aims to investigate the interrelationships among the Lean manufacturing (LM) adoption barriers in Indian SMEs. This issue has its own importance as LM has become the inescapable requirement for small- and medium-scale...

... the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database. The analysis was limited to only articles that come under the “Engineering industrial,” “Engineering Manufacturing” and “Operations Research and Management” subject category in WoS Core Collection database. Later, a bibliometric analysis...

...N. Harikannan; S. Vinodh; Anand Gurumurthy Purpose The concept of sustainable manufacturing has been adopted by manufacturing organizations to develop eco-friendlier products and processes. In recent times, industries are progressing toward Industry 4.0 (I4.0). Guided with smart intelligent...

... and Sim. Development of models that considered environmental impacts to the closed loop supply chain. Considering the impact of the technology type in the manufacture of products and the recycling of waste that will reduce emissions of environmental pollutants. Another innovation of the model is the multi...

.... Research limitations/implications The decision support tool developed in the proposed study offers a systematic and effectively simple approach to supply chain managers with a goal of identifying the degree of focus under each decision variable in the respective manufacturing organizations. Originality...

...Arun Palaniappan; S. Vinodh; Rajesh Ranganathan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the analysis of factors influencing additive manufacturing (AM) application in the food domain. Design/methodology/approach Based on literature review, 16 factors are being considered in the study...

... structural modeling and the MICMAC technique to establish a hierarchical relationship among different dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation and manufacturing performance of Indian SMEs. Findings The final outcome of interpretative structural modeling and the MICMAC analysis revealed a relationship...

... in manufacturing industries. To explore the fullest machining capability of these NTM processes, it is often required to operate them while setting their different controllable parameters at optimal levels. This paper aims to present a novel approach for selection of the optimal parametric mixes for different NTM...

... approach (Abumaizar and Svestka, 1997). Manufacturing companies face rising cost pressure due to increasing competition and production programme complexity. A main reason for this is globalisation, enabling especially new Asian companies to participate in the international market. In contrast...

...Vineet Jain; Vimlesh Kumar Soni Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the flexible manufacturing system performance variables and analyze the interactions among these variables. Interpretive structural modeling (ISM) has been reported for this but no study has been done regarding...

... in this research is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed models, i.e. the EPQ model with salvaging and reworking imperfect items. The models are applied to a high-tech un-plasticized polyvinyl chloride (UPVC) doors and windows manufacturer that produces different types of doors and windows...

... manufacturing industries from 2004 to 2013. In addition, it also tests the roles of industry heterogeneity plays in analyzing the relationships between exports and productivity. Findings It turns out that in China, exports inhibit the growth of productivity overall, and scale effect is not reflected...

.... fixtures, jigs, tools, etc.) in manufacturing. Design/methodology/approach The existing literature was carefully reviewed to address the state of the arts in decision support systems (DSS), the shortcomings of pure simulation-based and pure AI-based DSS. A conceptual example is illustrated to show...