scholarly journals A Strategic Roadmap for the Manufacturing Industry to Implement Industry 4.0

Designs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javaid Butt
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Future Trend ◽  
Lean Six Sigma ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Enabling Technologies ◽  
Six Sigma Approach

Industry 4.0 (also referred to as digitization of manufacturing) is characterized by cyber physical systems, automation, and data exchange. It is no longer a future trend and is being employed worldwide by manufacturing organizations, to gain benefits of improved performance, reduced inefficiencies, and lower costs, while improving flexibility. However, the implementation of Industry 4.0 enabling technologies is a difficult task and becomes even more challenging without any standardized approach. The barriers include, but are not limited to, lack of knowledge, inability to realistically quantify the return on investment, and lack of a skilled workforce. This study presents a systematic and content-centric literature review of Industry 4.0 enabling technologies, to highlight their impact on the manufacturing industry. It also provides a strategic roadmap for the implementation of Industry 4.0, based on lean six sigma approaches. The basis of the roadmap is the design for six sigma approach for the development of a new process chain, followed by a continuous improvement plan. The reason for choosing lean six sigma is to provide manufacturers with a sense of familiarity, as they have been employing these principles for removing waste and reducing variability. Major reasons for the rejection of Industry 4.0 implementation methodologies by manufactures are fear of the unknown and resistance to change, whereas the use of lean six sigma can mitigate them. The strategic roadmap presented in this paper can offer a holistic view of phases that manufacturers should undertake and the challenges they might face in their journey toward Industry 4.0 transition.

Leveraging Lean Six Sigma: Reducing defects and rejections in filter manufacturing industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prateek Guleria ◽  
Abhilash Pathania ◽  
Himani Bhatti ◽  
Kuldeep Rojhe ◽  
Dalgobind Mahto
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Lean Six Sigma

Determination of linagliptin and empagliflozin by UPLC and HPTLC techniques aided by Lean Six Sigma approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebrahim A. El‐Desouky ◽  
Ahmed M. Abdel‐Raoof ◽  
Ashraf Abdel‐Fattah ◽  
Ahmed Abdel‐Zaher ◽  
Ayman O. E. Osman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Lean Six Sigma ◽  
Six Sigma Approach

scholarly journals Six Sigma Approach to Enhance Concurrency of the Procurement Process for Raw Materials

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 510-517
Author(s):  
Atanas Kochov ◽  
Aleksandar Argilovski
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Lean Six Sigma ◽  
Approval Process ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
Manufacturing Company ◽  
External Vendors ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Six Sigma Approach ◽  
Structured Approach

This paper presents the improvement of the procurement process for raw materials in a real manufacturing company supported by the Lean Sig Sigma as structured approach to deliver the improvement. The manufacturing company that is a subject of this paper have received a significant amount of complains regarding the internal purchase orders approval process and the overall procurement process of the company from both internal employees and external vendors and contractors. Considering that the company is procuring the raw goods from selected vendors, therefore the entire manufacturing plan depends on these materials, the company decided to improve this process trough Lean Six Sigma. The Lean Six Sigma approach was selected in order to obtain the improvement in a short time, based on indicators that were previously analyzed and prioritized. The paper focuses on simplifying of the process trough decreasing the number of mandatory steps.

scholarly journals A systematic literature review of implementation six sigma in manufacturing industries

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Indra Setiawan ◽  
Humiras Hardi Purba ◽  
Fransisca Debora
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Six Sigma ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
And Control ◽  
Six Sigma Approach

The Six Sigma approach has received a lot of attention in various industrial sectors from the manufacturing industry to the service industry. More specific knowledge about Six Sigma has grown rapidly. Much of the training and research on Six Sigma is carried out in various industries and university. This literature review related to Six Sigma purpose to provide an overview of Six Sigma implementation in the manufacturing industries.  The Six Sigma approach that has been introduced and implemented for a long time is DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control). This paper discusses the published literature related to Six Sigma ranging from 2015 to 2020. This paper involves the study review of 50 papers related to the implementation of Six Sigma of known database search including Elsevier, Science Direct, Emerald Insight and Google Scholars. This literature review contains results from a variety of different perspectives. The perspective includes the focus of the industry, the focus of the number of distribution by country, the focus of the year of publication and the focus of the number of publishers. In fact, this is useful for all types of manufacturing industries to find solutions to problems. The paper also provides advantages for researchers next to add to the literature.

scholarly journals Design and Digital Manufacturing: an ergonomic approach for Industry 4.0

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Laudante ◽  
Francesco Caputo
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Production Line ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Human Machine Interaction ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Assembly Tasks

The contribution proposes innovative methods for design and ergonomic configuration of tools, equipment and manual workplaces for automobile assembly tasks, in order to increase the worker’s welfare and the system’s performance by improving general safety conditions. Developed activities are part of the research project “DEWO – Design Environment for WorkPlace Optimization”, financed by Italian Government to the Second University of Naples. The aim of this project is to identify new methods for optimization of assembly tasks  in a virtual environment in terms of overall integration among materials management, working tasks organization and layout, starting from the principles of "WorkPlace Organization" and the modern theories of "Lean Production ". The manufacturing industry is heading to the ever more pushed use of digital technologies in order to achieve very dynamic production environments and to be able to develop continuous process and product innovations to fit into the so called Fourth Industrial Revolution, Industry 4.0. The main goal of Industry 4.0 is to “rethink” companies through the use of digital, to reconsider the design approach and to monitor the production process in real time. The research addresses the evolution of innovation 4.0 in relation to the discipline of design, where the management of knowledge in the production process has led to the strengthening and improvement of tangible goods. Starting by current ergonomic analysis models and innovative approaches to the process of industrial production line, the manufacturing processes in the virtual environment were defined and optimized with the use of innovative 3D enjoyment technologies. The constant interaction among the different disciplines of design, engineering and occupational medicine, enables the creation of advanced systems for simulating production processes based on virtual reality and augmented reality, mainly focused on the needs and requirements of the workers on a production line where it is possible to bring out the interaction between real and virtual factory (Cyber-Physical System). The objective is to define new models of analysis, of development and testing for the configuration of ergonomic processes that improve and facilitate the human-machine interaction in a holistic view, in order to protect and enhance human capital, transferring the experiences and knowledge in the factory system, key factors for the company and for the sustainability of workers welfare levels.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/IFDP.2016.3297

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