... 08 2025 21 12 2025 25 02 2026 03 05 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Skill gap Competencies Job posting analysis Human factors Manufacturing technology management Smart manufacturing National...

... 17 11 2025 15 02 2026 26 02 2026 26 02 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Lean product development Sustainable product design Smart manufacturing Industry 4.0 Digital twin Design integration Systematic...

...Viktoria Leutheuser; Julian M. Müller; Kai-Ingo Voigt Purpose Using smart manufacturing technologies presents potentials for economic, environmental, and social sustainability objectives. Regarding their contribution to sustainability, these potentials are not mutually exclusive but interrelated...

...Qingyu Zhang; Fakhar Shahzad; Muhammad Umair Wattoo Purpose This study explores how ecological sustainability (eco-sustainability) motivations influence the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM), smart manufacturing transformation and sustainable manufacturing performance (SMP...

...Ashutosh Samadhiya; Farheen Naz; Anil Kumar; Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes; Sunil Luthra Purpose Smart manufacturing (SM) capitalizes on big data analytics (BDA) advancements by enhancing current capabilities such as defect identification and enabling supporting capabilities such as preventive...

... a competitive edge in the business environment; however, the true potential of smart manufacturing has not yet been fully unveiled. This research aims to extensively analyse emerging technologies and their interconnection with smart manufacturing in developing smarter supply chains. Design/methodology...

.... Manufacturing technology Industry 4.0 Smart manufacturing Technology bundles Performance Interesting because: The relationship between traditional and I4.0 production technologies has so far not been analyzed in the literature. Furthermore, complementarity theory indicates that bundles...

...Ramesh Krishnan Purpose Smart manufacturing is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry by shifting the focus from traditional manufacturing to a more intelligent, interconnected and responsive system. Despite being the backbone of the economy and despite the government’s efforts in supporting...

...David Vance; Mingzhou Jin; Christopher Price; Sachin U. Nimbalkar; Thomas Wenning Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review existing smart manufacturing (SM) maturity models' dimensions and maturity levels to assess their applicability and drawbacks. There are many maturity models available...

...Bianca Caiazzo; Teresa Murino; Alberto Petrillo; Gianluca Piccirillo; Stefania Santini Purpose This work aims at proposing a novel Internet of Things (IoT)-based and cloud-assisted monitoring architecture for smart manufacturing systems able to evaluate their overall status and detect eventual...

... context. 28 01 2021 11 05 2021 07 07 2021 13 08 2021 20 08 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Industry 4.0 Sociotechnical systems European manufacturing Advanced manufacturing Smart manufacturing...

...., 2014). Many countries worldwide are investing in Industry 4.0 such as China, the USA and Europe. Nowadays, the visionary idea of Industry 4.0, or other synonyms like smart manufacturing, smart production or smart industry, to name a few, have been promoted steadily to describe the trend toward...

...Juite Wang; Chih-Chi Hsu Purpose Smart manufacturing can lead to disruptive changes in production technologies and business models in the manufacturing industry. This paper aims to identify technological topics in smart manufacturing by using patent data, investigating technological trends...

... existed for years. However, under I4.0 these older developments are getting more powerful and are complemented with some newly emerging solutions (Kagermann et al., 2013). Industry 4.0 Smart manufacturing Firm size Multinational companies Country competitiveness...