During the last decade, digitalization has borne tremendous changes on the way we live and do business. Industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution, is merging the physical, digital and virtual worlds through emerging technologies that collide with each other and create a distinctive paradigm...

El objetivo del estudio es analizar las tendencias entre 1970 y 2017 en la balanza comercial física, el uso y eficiencia de materiales de América Latina y el Caribe. La metodología es la contabilidad de los flujos de materiales que compila las entradas de materiales (biomasa, combustibles...

Lean Production als Weltstandard für Serienfertigung -- Lean Warehouse -- Integrierte Bewertung variantenreicher Einzel- und Kleinserienfertigung in den Bereichen Lean Management und Industrie 4.0 -- Konsequenzen von Industrie 4.0 für das Produktionsmanagement -- Quick Response Manufacturing...

Remanufacturing is recognized as a major circular economy option to recover and upgrade functions from post-use products. However, the inefficiencies associated with operations, mainly due to the uncertainty and variability of material flows and product conditions, undermine the growth of...

This paper sheds light on the increase in generation of non-metallic mineral wastes and the decrease in demand for construction by investigating the material flow resulting from and the economic influence of changes in the supply and demand for wastes, focusing on the period from the near future...

This paper discusses the consequences of product return and circular material flow on a supply chain as well as on production planning and control. Furthermore, this paper presents an approach to incorporate the ideas of product return and circular material flow into the Hanoverian Supply Chain...

After the Paris Climate Agreement, it is anticipated that carbon prices will differ across regions for some time. If countries use free allowance allocation as carbon leakage protection, only a fraction of carbon prices are passed through to consumers particularly by carbon intensive materials...

In this paper, we describe a conveyor matrix consisting of small-scale, multi-directional transport modules that are considerably smaller than the transported packets. If a large number of these modules are combined into a matrix, the emerging network solves transport tasks through cooperation...

The relevance of the research problem is conditioned on the need to justify the use of the logistics methodologies in the quality parameters control process of material flows. The goal of the article is to develop theoretical principles and practical recommendations for logistical system control...

In der Vergangenheit ist der Materialfluss meist mit der Produktion gewachsen. Mit steigender Produktindividualität erhöht sich die Anzahl der zu fertigenden Varianten in der Produktion und somit die Komplexität der Materialflüsse. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden Möglichkeiten und Methoden...

In der Vergangenheit ist der Materialfluss meist mit der Produktion gewachsen. Mit steigender Produktindividualität erhöht sich die Anzahl der zu fertigenden Varianten in der Produktion und somit die Komplexität der Materialflüsse. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden Möglichkeiten und Methoden...