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Advancements and Challenges in Additively Manufactured Functionally Graded Materials: A Comprehensive Review
This paper thoroughly examines the advancements and challenges in the field of additively manufactured Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs). It delves into conceptual approaches for FGM design, various manufacturing techniques, and the materials employed in their fabrication using additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. This paper explores the applications of FGMs in diverse fields, including structural engineering, automotive, biomedical engineering, soft robotics, electronics, 4D printing, and metamaterials. Critical issues and challenges associated with FGMs are meticulously analyzed, addressing concerns related to production and performance. Moreover, this paper forecasts future trends in FGM development, highlighting potential impacts on diverse industries. The concluding section summarizes key findings, emphasizing the significance of FGMs in the context of AM technologies. This review provides valuable insights to researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders, enhancing their understanding of FGMs and their role in the evolving landscape of AM.
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Sustainable Manufacturing
Sustainability enables the development of products with minimal environmental impact coupled with economical and societal benefits. This book provides an understanding of theoretical and practical perspectives pertaining to sustainable manufacturing.
The book offers theoretical concepts and practical descriptions of sustainable manufacturing. It provides insights from research and practical applications, as well as industrial case studies, and several illustrations and examples. The book goes on to discuss design strategies that support sustainable manufacturing and includes ISO 14001 and PAS 2050 standards.
The book addresses the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students, academic researchers and industry practitioners.
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An Industry 4.0 maturity model proposal
PurposeIn recent years, the development and application of innovative and disruptive technologies in manufacturing environments is shaping the fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. The purpose of this paper is to describe a tool to assess the maturity level in implementing Industry 4.0 concepts and technologies in manufacturing companies.Design/methodology/approachUsing a framework to develop maturity models found in literature, three main steps were taken: the model design from the literature review on industry 4.0 and the comparative analysis of existing models; interviews with engineers and managers of relevant industries; and pilot tests in two relevant industrial companies.FindingsThe proposed maturity model has 41 variables considering five dimensions (organizational strategy, structure and culture; workforce; smart factories; smart processes; smart products and services). The studied companies showed different levels of Industry 4.0 implementation. According to respondents, the model is useful in making an initial diagnosis and establishes a roadmap to proceed the implementation.Practical implicationsEmpirical evidence supports the relevance of the proposed model and its practical usefulness. It can be used to measure the current state (initial diagnostic and monitoring assessments), and to plan the future desired state (goal), identifying which transformational capabilities should be developed.Originality/valueThe literature review did not return an enough complete maturity model to guide a self-administered assessment. Therefore, the proposed model is a valuable tool for companies and researchers to understand the I4.0 phenomenon, plan and monitor the transformation actions.
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Drones in manufacturing: exploring opportunities for research and practice
PurposeAlthough the industrial application of drones is increasing quickly, there is a scarcity of applications in manufacturing. The purpose of this paper is to explore current and potential applications of drones in manufacturing, examine the opportunities and challenges involved and propose a research agenda.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reports the result of an extensive qualitative investigation into an emerging phenomenon. The authors build on the literature on advanced manufacturing technologies. Data collected through in-depth interviews with 66 drone experts from 56 drone vendors and related services are analyzed using an inductive research design.FindingsDrones represent a promising AMT that is expected to be used in several applications in manufacturing in the next few years. This paper proposes a typology of drone applications in manufacturing, explains opportunities and challenges involved and develops a research agenda. The typology categorizes four types of applications based on the drones’ capabilities to “see,” “sense,” “move” and “transform.”Research limitations/implicationsThe proposed research agenda offers a guide for future research on drones in manufacturing. There are many research opportunities in the domains of industrial engineering, technology development and behavioral operations.Practical implicationsGuidance on current and promising potentials of drones in manufacturing is provided to practitioners. Particularly interesting applications are those that help manufacturers “see” and “sense” data in their factories. Applications that “move” or “transform” objects are scarcer, and they make sense only in special cases in very large manufacturing facilities.Originality/valueThe application of drones in manufacturing is in its infancy, but is foreseen to grow rapidly over the next decade. This paper presents the first academically rigorous analysis of potential applications of drones in manufacturing. An original and theory-informed typology for drone applications is a timely contribution to the nascent literature. The research agenda presented assists the establishment of a new stream of literature on drones in manufacturing.
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Vanishing boundaries : how integrating manufacturing and services creates customer value
\"Presenting the innovative thesis that global competition and supply chain complexity are increasing so rapidly that managers must reach across the manufacturing and service boundary to gather more universally applicable ideas, this groundbreaking work addresses the unprecedented array of new or aggravated conditions that today's business managers must face. Businesses need to become more consumer-centric, efficient, and quality conscious. This book addresses problems, solutions, and implementation strategies as well as risk and crisis management, sourcing, healthcare, alternative energy infrastructure, integration of supply chain services, advances in IT, social media, and customer building\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cloud based manufacturing: A review of recent developments in architectures, technologies, infrastructures, platforms and associated challenges
Service-provider industries have used cloud-based technologies in recent years. Information technology (IT) led the development of electronic hardware and software technologies to enable cloud computing as a new paradigm. Other vanguard industries such as communications and financial services leveraged cloud computing technology to develop cloud-based platforms for their respective industries. Manufacturing industry is a relative newcomer to cloud technologies although it has used modern technologies on factory floor to boost production efficiency. Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) is one of the key technologies of Industry 4.0 (I 4.0) and the goal of CMfg is to develop cloud-based approaches in manufacturing that provide flexibility, adaptability, and agility also, reduces challenges caused by system complexity. In recent years, researchers evaluated cloud technologies and proposed initial solutions tailored to manufacturing requirements. However, there are challenges in implementing CMfg due to complexity of technologies, different types of products and wide range of requirements from mass production of consumer products to low-volume specialty products. This paper presents the advantages, challenges and shortcomings associated with applications of the latest technologies to drive transition to CMfg. This research examined cloud technologies proposed for implementation of CMfg such as architectures, models, frameworks, infrastructure, interoperability, virtualization, optimal service selection, etc. This research also studied the role of technologies such as the internet of things (IoT), cyber physical systems (CPS) robotics, big data, radio frequency identification (RFID), 3D printing and artificial intelligence (AI) in accelerating the adoption and future direction of CMfg.
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