Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1109/EMR.2023.3328780
Antonio Piepoli;Francesco Arcidiacono;Luigi Jesus Basile;Roberta Pellegrino;Florian Schupp;Tobias Zuehlke
Several automotive industry players are investing in the implementation of Industry 4.0 (I4.0). However, the adoption of I4.0 technologies in automotive supply chains (SCs) is still not uniform, which limits the value creation of advanced technologies. In particular, suppliers, which play a crucial role in the automotive SC, often struggle in their I4.0 projects. Since their adoption of I4.0 technologies can significantly impact the overall performance and value creation within the SC, it is crucial to gain insights into actions and strategies that can support suppliers’ I4.0 implementations. Building on a multiple case study approach, this article aims at providing guidance to prospective I4.0 adopters by investigating the organizational-level actions that support I4.0 projects, the financial capital and KPIs typically used by suppliers, and the resulting impact of I4.0 technology implementation on business performance. Evidence shows that the planning stage of I4.0 initiatives, from the organizational-level actions to the investment strategy, is a complex and strategic stage for ensuring success. Equally important are the external collaborations, which ensure that firms are in line with technological innovation and market needs. Finally, results show that the implementation of more advanced I4.0 technologies is correlated with a more robust improvement in business performance.
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Industrial mining operations and associated activities cause adverse and sometimes irrevocable harm to ecosystems. Uncontrolled quarrying impacts the local geology and vegetation, thus it is important to examine local tree varieties, also known as alpha diversity, and species turnover over landscape gradients, known as beta diversity. This has prompted a review of three important issues: 1) How has mining affected the region's alpha and beta diversity? 2) How can floral changes along altitudinal gradients impact the composition of tree communities? and 3) Factors able to forecast changes in the environmental sustainability? A case study analysis was conducted to address these questions with the estimation of the significance value index for pioneer and successional tree species, utilizing certain phytosociological characteristics. The findings of the study indicated a limited range of species variety and carbon storage across three distinct elevation gradients, specifically those exceeding 450 m, those at precisely 450 m, and below 450 m. The results of this study provide a theoretical basis for the implementation of management strategies aiming to achieve sustainable practices in industrial operations. Additionally, it will contribute to multidisciplinary environmental sustainability science by employing scientific ecosystem analysis as a framework.
{"title":"Effect of Industrial Activities Vis-à-Vis Ecological Imbalance–Sustainability Perspective","authors":"Meenakshi Singh;Piyush Choudhary;Nikunj Kumar Jain;Bhavya Mishra;Atul Srivastava","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2023.3326817","DOIUrl":"10.1109/EMR.2023.3326817","url":null,"abstract":"Industrial mining operations and associated activities cause adverse and sometimes irrevocable harm to ecosystems. Uncontrolled quarrying impacts the local geology and vegetation, thus it is important to examine local tree varieties, also known as alpha diversity, and species turnover over landscape gradients, known as beta diversity. This has prompted a review of three important issues: 1) How has mining affected the region's alpha and beta diversity? 2) How can floral changes along altitudinal gradients impact the composition of tree communities? and 3) Factors able to forecast changes in the environmental sustainability? A case study analysis was conducted to address these questions with the estimation of the significance value index for pioneer and successional tree species, utilizing certain phytosociological characteristics. The findings of the study indicated a limited range of species variety and carbon storage across three distinct elevation gradients, specifically those exceeding 450 m, those at precisely 450 m, and below 450 m. The results of this study provide a theoretical basis for the implementation of management strategies aiming to achieve sustainable practices in industrial operations. Additionally, it will contribute to multidisciplinary environmental sustainability science by employing scientific ecosystem analysis as a framework.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135156217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1109/EMR.2023.3322626
Peter E.D. Love;Jane Matthews;Lavagnon A. Ika;Weili Fang
Poor quality in construction often manifests in the need for rework to be performed. Yet, no specific theory exists in the literature to provide practical guidance to mitigate rework. While common conceptualizations of rework abound, they fall short of the strict empirical testing required to develop a “good” theory. Rumsfeld's heuristic suggests that within complex production systems such as construction, there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. Using this heuristic as a metaphor, we undertake a narrative review of the literature to make sense of what is known , determine the key unsolved problems , and identify issues that research has failed to consider about rework in this article. Our article questions prevailing knowledge and aims to stimulate richer and more in-depth lines of inquiry to make headway toward developing a theory that explains rework causation. The much-needed theory would provide a platform for designing and developing effective strategies for mitigating rework in construction. This article's contributions are twofold as: (1) it identifies unresolved issues stymieing the ability to address rework effectively; and (2) promulgates new avenues of inquiry to create an improved understanding of the rework phenomenon, thus setting the foundation for sparking theoretical development.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1109/EMR.2023.3322686
T. C. E. Cheng;P. W. C. Choy;R. L. M. Wong
The consumer-driven fast fashion (FF) approach has become a formidable business strategy to create, boost, and sustain competitive advantage in the global fashion industry. FF firms in China have adopted this approach, together with its supporting supply chain management (SCM) practices, to yield superior supply chain (SC) performance to compete with their global rivals. We seek to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) of SCM and their SC performance implications focusing on FF in China. We conducted a large-scale survey of FF firms in China and analyzed the data. We identify six CSFs of SCM that are significantly and positively associated with six SC performance measures of FF in China. Specifically, we find that Consumer Orientation and Production Management are the two most prominent CSFs of SCM of FF in China, as they are significantly and positively associated with all the six SC performance measures identified. In addition, we conducted a case on a prominent FF firm in China to validate and triangulate the empirical findings. We provide practical insights to FF firms in China, enabling them to prioritize and allocate necessary resources to develop, maintain, and enhance the most relevant and appropriate CSFs of SCM to deliver desirable SC performance outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1109/EMR.2023.3320788
Mitra Salehi
The construction industry has a large environmental impact, and sustainable construction has become a key priority on a global scale, resulting in massive construction waste generation, and therefore, the goal of sustainable construction is to reduce natural resource consumption as well as its influence on ecological systems. Sustainable development attempts to raise living standards without jeopardizing environmental quality or future demands. With the growing importance of ecological civilization in construction, the use of energy-saving and environmental-protection materials has become a new focus of the development of the construction industry. Construction and demolition waste could be generated by a variety of activities during various projects. The purpose of the research is to pay attention to the causes of generating construction and demolition waste in each construction stage and rank the important items and stages that lead to the generation of construction and demolition waste. The survey questionnaire concluded that 11 construction stages that may cause construction waste were distributed among 85 civil engineers who have the role of supervision in big construction projects, and 72 questionnaires were collected. The data analysis has been done in SPSS software with the Friedman test. As a result, the findings show that construction suffers from waste material and waste generation in the construction stages. Moreover, the most significant sources of waste accumulation are the stages of planning, storage, design, and procurement.
{"title":"Sustainable Construction: The Stages and Causes Affecting on Construction and Demolition Waste","authors":"Mitra Salehi","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2023.3320788","DOIUrl":"10.1109/EMR.2023.3320788","url":null,"abstract":"The construction industry has a large environmental impact, and sustainable construction has become a key priority on a global scale, resulting in massive construction waste generation, and therefore, the goal of sustainable construction is to reduce natural resource consumption as well as its influence on ecological systems. Sustainable development attempts to raise living standards without jeopardizing environmental quality or future demands. With the growing importance of ecological civilization in construction, the use of energy-saving and environmental-protection materials has become a new focus of the development of the construction industry. Construction and demolition waste could be generated by a variety of activities during various projects. The purpose of the research is to pay attention to the causes of generating construction and demolition waste in each construction stage and rank the important items and stages that lead to the generation of construction and demolition waste. The survey questionnaire concluded that 11 construction stages that may cause construction waste were distributed among 85 civil engineers who have the role of supervision in big construction projects, and 72 questionnaires were collected. The data analysis has been done in SPSS software with the Friedman test. As a result, the findings show that construction suffers from waste material and waste generation in the construction stages. Moreover, the most significant sources of waste accumulation are the stages of planning, storage, design, and procurement.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135839308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The resilience of energy and water systems is central to the well-being and livelihood of communities. These systems are also of critical importance to military installations, which must be able to sustain operations despite disruptions and targeted attacks. Recently, edge computing has emerged as a technical enabler of improved resilience through enhanced coordination and control despite such disturbances. However, the complex and computational nature of edge computing also comes with risks that may degrade resilience. To properly understand the benefits and disadvantages of incorporating edge computing into energy and water systems, this article surveys studies at the intersection of edge computing, resilience, and energy systems, identifying tradeoffs, opportunities, and technical gaps. Subsequently, recommendations are made to realize resilience by design of energy systems incorporating edge computing.
{"title":"Edge Computing as an Enabler of Energy and Water System Resilience","authors":"Lance Fiondella;Luke Hogewood;Alexandre Ligo;Igor Linkov","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2023.3320876","DOIUrl":"10.1109/EMR.2023.3320876","url":null,"abstract":"The resilience of energy and water systems is central to the well-being and livelihood of communities. These systems are also of critical importance to military installations, which must be able to sustain operations despite disruptions and targeted attacks. Recently, edge computing has emerged as a technical enabler of improved resilience through enhanced coordination and control despite such disturbances. However, the complex and computational nature of edge computing also comes with risks that may degrade resilience. To properly understand the benefits and disadvantages of incorporating edge computing into energy and water systems, this article surveys studies at the intersection of edge computing, resilience, and energy systems, identifying tradeoffs, opportunities, and technical gaps. Subsequently, recommendations are made to realize resilience by design of energy systems incorporating edge computing.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135839035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nowadays, electronic medical records are increasing rapidly. Electronic medical records consist of sensitive and confidential information. These pieces of information need to be protected from attackers during the exchange with patients. Blockchain technology can protect information from attackers during the exchange of information. There are various classical techniques to protect electronic medical records. These techniques can exchange information correctly but cannot resist collective and coherent attacks and have more communication and computation costs. In this article, we introduced a privacy-preserving quantum blockchain technique to protect electronic medical records. This technique can resist the intercept, intercept-resend, entangle-measure, man-in-the-middle, collective, and coherent attacks with less communication and computation costs.
{"title":"A Privacy-Preserving Quantum Blockchain Technique for Electronic Medical Records","authors":"Ranjitha Venkatesh;Brahmananda Savadatti Hanumantha","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2023.3319376","DOIUrl":"10.1109/EMR.2023.3319376","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, electronic medical records are increasing rapidly. Electronic medical records consist of sensitive and confidential information. These pieces of information need to be protected from attackers during the exchange with patients. Blockchain technology can protect information from attackers during the exchange of information. There are various classical techniques to protect electronic medical records. These techniques can exchange information correctly but cannot resist collective and coherent attacks and have more communication and computation costs. In this article, we introduced a privacy-preserving quantum blockchain technique to protect electronic medical records. This technique can resist the intercept, intercept-resend, entangle-measure, man-in-the-middle, collective, and coherent attacks with less communication and computation costs.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135838776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1109/EMR.2023.3317887
Clive Kerr
Portfolio perspectives are fundamental for executives, and visual approaches provide an accessible means of conveying summary overviews and in-depth depictions of projects, programs, and platforms. However, within organizations, the design of such charts, diagrams, and graphs is relatively poor. Given the importance of portfolios, visualizations should be more thoughtfully designed to better present information in expressive ways while ensuring an appropriate balance of data provision aligned with the needs of the audience/viewers. Visuals are not merely a method of reporting, they can also be strategically deployed to support decision-making. Visualizations can be used to trigger and structure the necessary conversations between managers and executives, enabling much-needed discussions and even healthy debates. This article presents a selection of visuals that were developed to depict different types and aspects of portfolios as a means to prompt meaningful and constructive dialog among key stakeholders—especially in management meetings (either online or in-person). These visualizations act as exemplars of new and novel practices in leading organizations and provide both useful representations and inspiration for other companies.
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There is growing interest among activists, policymakers, academicians, and practitioners in understanding and promoting sustainable consumption. Research in environmental psychology has largely concentrated on Western societies, while the global south, a major player in the global sustainability transition, is under-represented. This sample skewness has undermined the role of context and a restricted conceptualization of environmental behavior. Furthermore, there is a research need to incorporate environmental behaviors that are driven by cultural beliefs, practices, and evolving local context, more so in non-Western societies. Motivated by these gaps, we discuss and develop a model integrating contextual influences on environmental behavior, outline its antecedents, and its research and managerial implications. We focus on attitudinal factors and external factors as antecedents of environmental behavior and highlight the contextual influence with specific reference to India. We identify six dimensions under attitudinal factors—individual-nature, individual-individual, individual-time, individual-life, individual-technology, and individual-waste—and monetary, social, and physical categories in external factors. We present an integrated model to stimulate more studies on environmental behavior and guide behavior change interventions in non-Western contexts. The model provides a theoretical lens to extend our understanding of the nature and dynamics of contextual influences on environmental behavior. Furthermore, practitioners could leverage the model to aid strategic interventions for business and policy outcomes.
{"title":"What Is in the Context? Motivations and Implications of an Integrated Model of Environmental Behavior","authors":"Vighnesh Nanjangud Vishwanath;Balachandra Patil;Deepak Chandrashekar","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2023.3315581","DOIUrl":"10.1109/EMR.2023.3315581","url":null,"abstract":"There is growing interest among activists, policymakers, academicians, and practitioners in understanding and promoting sustainable consumption. Research in environmental psychology has largely concentrated on Western societies, while the global south, a major player in the global sustainability transition, is under-represented. This sample skewness has undermined the role of context and a restricted conceptualization of environmental behavior. Furthermore, there is a research need to incorporate environmental behaviors that are driven by cultural beliefs, practices, and evolving local context, more so in non-Western societies. Motivated by these gaps, we discuss and develop a model integrating contextual influences on environmental behavior, outline its antecedents, and its research and managerial implications. We focus on attitudinal factors and external factors as antecedents of environmental behavior and highlight the contextual influence with specific reference to India. We identify six dimensions under attitudinal factors—individual-nature, individual-individual, individual-time, individual-life, individual-technology, and individual-waste—and monetary, social, and physical categories in external factors. We present an integrated model to stimulate more studies on environmental behavior and guide behavior change interventions in non-Western contexts. The model provides a theoretical lens to extend our understanding of the nature and dynamics of contextual influences on environmental behavior. Furthermore, practitioners could leverage the model to aid strategic interventions for business and policy outcomes.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135501478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1109/EMR.2023.3315657
Michael W. Condry
The technologies that enable products and services for Industry 4.0 create many new products and services for industrial, professional, and consumer markets. These are growing rapidly across multiple markets. With all this rapid change, it is a challenge for developers to “keep up” so that their products and services are current when entering the market. This article intends to overview the elementary concepts for the practical reader, scoping out some of the potential product and service areas enabled by these technologies. The key takeaway is that the technical concepts behind Industry 4.0 apply to the industrial markets as well as many others, including consumer, medical, and areas outside of industry solutions.
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