The concept of sustainable manufacturing (SM) is becoming increasingly mature due to the
focus on many of its research topics for a long time. This research has undoubtedly …

This work makes the case for integrating two industrial waves that promise to re-shape
current patterns of production and consumption: Industry 4.0 and environmentally …

Society's consumption of natural resources and the impact of industrial activities on the
environment have gained increasing attention over the last several decades. This paper …

Cryogenic machining has emerged as a sustainable technique that reflects in terms of
reduced environmental effects, superior part quality, and lesser resource consumption …

A “digital twin” is a dynamic, digital replica of a technical object (eg, a physical system,
device, machine or production process) or a living organism. Using this type of solution has …

Purpose The concept of sustainable manufacturing has been adopted by manufacturing
organizations to develop eco-friendlier products and processes. In recent times, industries …

Big-data mining brings new challenges and opportunities for engineering design, such as
customer-needs mining, sentiment analysis, knowledge discovery, etc. At the early phase of …

To understand the past successes and future opportunities for applying Industry 4.0
technologies toward manufacturing sustainability assessment, this state-of-the-art review …

This article describes in detail the elements of value creation through the transformations
and flexibility, which is carried out in the implementation of sustainable manufacturing. The …

Recently, besides recurrent financial gains, industries have been required to boost their
environmental and social performance to fulfil the demands of several stakeholders …