...Oscar Larsson; Robin Ferm; Jon Bokrantz; Anders Skoogh Purpose The need for smart maintenance ( SM ) is increasing as the manufacturing industry digitalizes. To facilitate the transformation of maintenance in digitalized manufacturing, scholars have developed a strategy development process ( SDP...

...Nishita Chatradhi; Omar Abou Kasm; Manisha Paliwal Purpose Smart manufacturing promises operational efficiency and enhanced sustainability, yet SMEs frequently struggle to translate digital investments into tangible environmental outcomes. This study examines how organizational alignment, emergent...

...Wenyan Song; Xiaoyu Que Purpose This study seeks to elucidate how manufacturing firms’ structural positions in the large-scale supply chain network (SCN) and their digitalization influence innovation. It opens the “black box” of digitalization by examining its moderating effects through three...

...Jana Kunecová; Jasna Prester; Juraj Šebo; Iztok Palčič Purpose This study examines the key barriers hindering the adoption of industrial artificial intelligence (AI) in European manufacturing firms. It aims to classify these barriers and analyse their influence on adoption decisions, offering...

...Marius Kristiansen; Tor Helge Aas Purpose This article aims to explore how manufacturers establish legitimacy in digital servitization. As manufacturing firms recognize digital servitization’s significance, they aim to understand its relevance within their contexts. For successful implementation...

...Monica Cugno; Rebecca Castagnoli; Giacomo Büchi; Marco Pini Purpose Literature verifies that Industry 4.0 allows Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to improve global market strategies. The paper explores the effects of Industry 4.0 on different export dimensions in manufacturing SMEs. Design...

... intention. Practical implications This paper reports valuable insights on adoption intention of data analytics for PdM with relevant implications for the various stakeholders such as the leaders and senior managers of process manufacturing industry companies, government agencies, technology consultants...

...Verena Stingl; Lasse Christiansen; Andreas Kornmaaler Hansen; Astrid Heidemann Lassen; Yang Cheng Purpose The introduction of robots as value-adding “workers” on the shop floor triggers complex changes to manufacturing work. Such changes involve highly entangled relationships between technology...

...), sustainability-oriented innovation and the multidimensionality of firms' sustainability performance. Design/methodology/approach A total of 417 valid responses from manufacturing SMEs were collected through a questionnaire. PLS-SEM is the statistical technique used in the hypothesis testing. Findings...

...Dong-Young Kim; Bruce Fortado Purpose The importance of supply chain network centrality has been widely recognized in the manufacturing literature. This study extends this literature by investigating the relationship between network centrality and innovation value. “Innovation value” refers...

...Matteo Podrecca; Guido Orzes; Marco Sartor; Guido Nassimbeni Purpose This paper aims to offer a long-term systematic picture of the evolution of manufacturing offshoring (in terms of intensity, geography and drivers) highlighting the changes in the surrounding context and the resulting transitions...

... creativity – based on five cognitive biases – and explicit creativity on EPC; and (2) the mediating role of coworkers' heuristic transfer between shared leadership and EPC. Design/methodology/approach Data have been obtained from big Italian manufacturing technology firms through a series of online...

...Cristina Fróes de Borja Reis; André Barroso de Souza; Eliane Cristina Araujo; Knut Blind Purpose This paper aims to investigate if the world top manufacturing corporations' cost structures are moving from tangible to intangible activities and their impact on profitability. Design/methodology...

...Jussi Heikkilä; Miia Martinsuo; Sanna Nenonen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent, drivers, and conditions underlying backshoring in the Finnish manufacturing industry, comparing the results to the wider ongoing relocation of production in the international context...

...Gabriel Marcuzzo do Canto Cavalheiro; Mariana Brandao Purpose By examining the intellectual property (IP) portfolio of the largest Brazilian footwear firms, the purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of how manufacturing firms in the footwear industry in a developing country...

... proliferated about how sustainability affects manufacturing plans. The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive notion of maintenance sustainability in maintenance planning. The literature has downplayed maintenance sustainability but may support in understanding how to crack the present company...

.../approach Conducting a comprehensive survey on the published papers focused on the area of sustainability and/or sustainable development (S/SD) in manufacturing enterprises to identify the most common critical challenges. Setting with industrialists to determine which challenges the industrial...

...S.D. Uma Mageswari; R. Chitra Sivasubramanian; T.N. Srikantha Dath Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the current status of knowledge management (KM) adoption in the Indian manufacturing organizations and to develop a comprehensive research model to investigate the impact...

... The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of Petri nets in a job shop setup for the improvement in the utilization of machines. Petri nets are mostly applied in job shop manufacturing environment, for machines, jobs and tool scheduling problems. But in these conventional applications...

... collected from 80 companies in 2001 using a paper-based questionnaire, and from 71 companies in 2014 using a web-based questionnaire. Findings A diverging view of 21 proposed PD factors is found between respondents in manufacturing industry, and there is also a lack of correspondence with existing...