To deal with volatile product demand and rapidly changing manufacturing technologies for sustainable returns, selective collaboration among companies in supply networks (SNs) is required. Recently, demand and capacity sharing among independent and non-competitive manufacturers, at the same...

In an increasingly interconnected world, physical, service, and digital supply networks are becoming progressively more complex, dynamic, and interdependent. Moreover, sustainability concerns push for higher efficiency in the use of resources, reducing protective redundancies and making supply...

Demand and capacity sharing (DCS) among entities within a supply network are common practice, and have become attractive strategies for competing and non-competing supply enterprises (SEs). Examples include airlines, test and assembly factories, and outsourced maintenance and logistics...

The abilities and limitations of today's industrial robots are reviewed and compared to similar human parameters. The robot abilities were determined from a survey of 282 current robot models. This discussion is held within the general framework of a skills analysis approach to robot task...