This volume contains research contributions by an international group of authors addressing innovative and technology-based approaches for logistics and supply chain management. They present opportunities for enhancing resilience and sustainability as well as recent approaches for supply chain...

Purpose: Through increasing individualization, volatile market demands or shorter product and innovation cycles, existing assembly systems in the automotive industry reach their limits. Different approaches are designed to address the need for adaptable systems. The Fluid Manufacturing System...

Purpose: Established approaches to supply chain management are increasingly being challenged due to disruptive events that neglect the dynamics and interdependencies of supply chains. Supply ecosystems form a new theoretical view of the supply chain that is more in line with systemic thinking,...

Purpose: Our research emphasizes the importance of considering outliers in production logistics tasks. With a growing amount of data, we require data mining to cope with these tasks. We underline that the widespread exclusion of outliers in data pre-processing for data mining leads to a loss of...

Investments in advanced manufacturing technologies are expected to generate substantial gains for firms. The aim of this work is to evaluate the nature and extent of such gains. We use information on the ''Nuova Sabatini'' subsidy - an important policy measure adopted in Italy over the last few...

This volume contains research contributions by an international group of authors addressing innovative and technology-based approaches for supply chain management. They present business models and investment options for enhanced strategic decision making as well as recent approaches for supply...

Purpose: The combination of additive and conventional manufacturing techniques allows the combination of the strengths of both approaches. Additive manufacturing can be concentrated on functional and complex geometries while the basic body of a part is produced conventionally leading to cost...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to design a concept of the data supply chain of a smart construction factory by analyzing the information flow and Building Information Modeling (BIM) object data that are available through innovative identification technologies and communication systems....

Purpose: Contract manufacturing has established itself as a cornerstone of manufacturing practices across industries. The high degree of external value creation, operational interfaces, relational dynamics, and knowledge exchange coordination require demand-oriented management of contract...

Purpose: Industry 4.0 has increased the availability of real-time data in manufacturing systems, but scientific evidence about the value stemming from such data is still lacking in several fields. This paper studies data-driven approaches for the assignment of tasks to a fleet of mobile robots...