The Industry 4.0 era has resulted in several opportunities and challenges for the
manufacturing industry and for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME); technologies …

During the last decade, we have witnessed steady movement of industry and academia
toward Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 is a concept aimed at achieving the integration of physical …

Industry 4.0 is a central strategy to strengthen the competitiveness of the manufacturing
sector over the next years. Nevertheless, there is a lack of common understanding of …

Logistics plays an essential role in supply chain management to plan and coordinate the
movement of products in a timely, safely and effectively way. The recent term Logistics 4.0 …

Purpose Food manufacturing companies which are essential for national economies, need
to attach importance to the adoption of both the lean manufacturing (LM) operational …

Maturity models (MMs) are strategic tools used to assess and improve the current state of
processes, objects, or people, with the goal of achieving continuous performance …

The implementation of Industry 4.0 currently concerns mainly large enterprises. However,
the economy of most European countries is based on the activities of small and medium …

Purpose By considering the lack of studies of the factors that influence the adoption of 4.0
technologies in manufacturing SMEs, this study proposes a model that examines the …

While the fourth industrial revolution continues to change manufacturing enterprises all over
the world, not all enabling key technologies are taught sufficiently at universities. For this …

Purpose Industry 4.0 is characterised by the exponential pace of technological innovations
compelling organisations to transform or be displaced. Industry 4.0 transformation of …