New Technologies in Operations and Supply Chain: Implications for Sustainability
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2019-05-31
影响因子: 5.134
期刊难度:
CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 工程技术 - 1区
• 小类 : 工程:工业 - 2区
• 小类 : 工程:制造 - 2区
• 小类 : 运筹学与管理科学 - 2区
Overview
Application of new technologies is gaining strong momentum in production and operations management (POM) of today’s manufacturing. The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (including data mining), new-generation data-driven information technologies, automatic intelligence, and new energy technologies, for example, has unprecedentedly facilitated the advent of a new industrial revolution. This new era of transformation in industry will undoubtedly bring about game-changing approaches, models, processes and systems in operations management, production planning and control, supply chain and logistics management. In particular, the deep integration of intelligent technologies and communication technologies with manufacturing can trigger the development of smart factories, intelligent manufacturing system architectures, and intelligent manufacturing technology systems.
It is clear that the new technologies in manufacturing can create great opportunities for both new products/services and immense productivity improvements. They also, however, pose substantial challenges, for society as well as commercial firms, such as the dangers and disadvantages in terms of increased unemployment and greater wealth inequalities when intelligent machines outperform human brain power. Yet while there has been much discussion about the impact of new technologies on such matters, there has been less coverage as to whether their applications could improve sustainability performance in the POM literature. This is despite the new technologies raising key questions.
The main objective of this special issue is thus to fill this knowledge gap and provide a forum for scholars and practitioners to critically study, evaluate, explore and explain the new models, new ways, new means and new forms of intelligent manufacturing that create impacts on operations sustainability. The results will further our understanding of the implications of new technologies in manufacturing for sustainability both practically and theoretically.
Recommended Topics:
The particularly suitable topics that are welcomed in this special issue include, but are not limitedto, the following:
• Studies on the impact of new models, new means and new forms of intelligent manufacturing on operations sustainability.
• Studies on intelligent manufacturing ecology, with the characteristics of ubiquitous network technology, cross-border integration, autonomous intelligent, product lifecycle intelligent design technology and mass innovation, etc.
• Comparative studies on different types of new technologies in manufacturing and their impacts on operations sustainability.
• New technologies in manufacturing and their implications for sustainability in different cultural and regional contexts, including developing countries and SMEs.
• Impact of new technologies in manufacturing on various stages of a product lifecycle and its implications for sustainability.
• Applications of new technologies in operations and supply chain management for environmental and social improvement.
• New theory development to explain the implications of new technologies in manufacturing for sustainability at the firm, inter-firm, and supply network levels.