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Analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts on manufacturing: a systematic literature review and future research agenda
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected manufacturing companies and necessitated adaptations of firms' operations. Despite the increasing interest in this subject, a scarcity of systematic analysis can be observed. The present study systematically reviews the existing research on the COVID-19 pandemic concerning the manufacturing industry. This paper aims to highlight the main impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the manufacturing sector from the operations management perspective, the practical adaptation actions, and future research opportunities. Open research questions and directions for further investigation are articulated and triangulated across organisational, process and technology perspectives
Unlocking the Potential of Agriculture 4.0: A Comparative Study on Italian Farms' Technological Evolution, Business Demands, and Perceived Benefits
No full textMaturity level and Effects of the 4.0 Paradigm on the Italian Agricultural Industry: A preliminary study
No full textEnabling technologies, impacts and challenges of “Industry 4.0” in the manufacturing context: some insights from a preliminary literature review
No full textThe initiative of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) has been proposed in Germany in 2011. From that moment, both
academical and industrial communities started to be interested in this new paradigm due to its potential capability of
transforming traditional manufacturing systems into flexible, customizable and autonomous ones. Indeed, scholars
have provided contributions aimed at developing a framework for Industry 4.0 related concepts such as smart
factory, factory of the future (FoF) and cyber physical systems (CPS). Furthermore, the literature investigates vertical
and horizontal integration enabled by Industry 4.0 enabling technologies, as well as their industrial practices.
Nonetheless, a comprehensive understanding of the concept of Industry 4.0 evaluating the overall plethora of I4.0
enabling technologies has been addressed by very few studies in the literature. Moreover, the potential impacts as
well as the challenges related to the application of Industry 4.0 are scattered in different studies. On that basis, this
paper aims at presenting a state-of-art of industry 4.0 paradigm applied in the manufacturing context. In particular,
this study focuses on identifying i) the I4.0 enabling technologies; ii) the achievable benefits and faced obstacles in
adopting I4.0 paradigm and; iii) the human- and sustainability- related factors effected by Industry 4.0. This objective
has been achieved based on the preliminary results of a literature review of 73 papers selected from Scopus and
Web-of-Science databases. The (preliminary) results allowed to point out the main elements emerging from the
sample analyzed, as well as their level of diffusion within the literature. Although various contributions have been
written on Industry 4.0 area, the majority of them are focused on the impacts of digital enabling technologies in the
domain of smart factory, stressing the topic of production scheduling and maintenance. Less attention has been paid
on the improvement of product or service development and to the reconfiguration of the supply chain in the I4.0
era. This paper also shows that human and sustainability related aspects are less focused, but there is an increasing
trend in recent years. Besides, even though the implementation of I4.0 enabling technologies in single business
processes has been addressed by several works in the literature, utilization of combination of different technologies
and a clear definition of what types of benefits they can bring out, is under-investigated
La letteratura per l'infanzia come "fonte" per la storia dei processi culturali e formativi
No full textIl lavoro si propone innanzi tutto di focalizzare l’attenzione sull’evoluzione registrata nel corso dell’ultimo quindicennio, in Italia, dalla ricerca storica sulla letteratura per l’infanzia, ponendo in evidenza il significativo rinnovamento metodologico e storiografico che tale ambito di studi ha fatto registrare e, in particolare, il sempre più stretto legame che si è stabilito tra la storia dell’educazione e delle istituzioni scolastiche e la storia della letteratura per l’infanzia.
In particolare, l’Autrice si sofferma sul ruolo che la storia della letteratura per l’infanzia è venuta assumendo ultimamente ai fini di una più larga e incisiva comprensione dei più generali processi culturali e formativi che hanno caratterizzato il nostro Paese negli ultimi due secoli e sul rilevante contributo da essa offerto all’approfondimento di fenomeni e processi d’indubbia rilevanza, come quelli che concernono l’evoluzione dell’immaginario infantile e di quello degli adulti sull’infanzia, nonché il ruolo esercitato dalla pubblicistica infantile e giovanile nella costruzione di schemi mentali, di universi simbolici, di convinzioni morali e civili, destinati a modellare e alimentare l’universo dei comportamenti individuali e collettivi.
Nella seconda parte del suo contributo, l’Autrice pone l’accento sulla necessità di superare gli ultimi residui di autoreferenzialità della disciplina e di promuovere un sempre maggiore raccordo della storia della letteratura per l’infanzia con la ricerca sui processi formativi e culturali. Un tale processo impone da un lato un crescente affinamento delle metodologie e dell’impostazione autenticamente storiografica della ricerca in questo settore, dall’altro un indispensabile ampliamento dell’oggetto stesso dell’indagine, sulla base di una riconsiderazione critica e di una necessaria ‘storicizzazione’ tanto dei canoni estetico-letterari che hanno caratterizzato, negli ultimi due secoli, la produzione letteraria per l’infanzia e la gioventù, quanto dei modelli interpretativi di questa pubblicistica elaborati dalla tradizionale precettistica pedagogica ed educativa
Industry 4.0 revolution: state-of-the-art of the Italian manufacturing context
No full textHigher global competition and more complex customer demands pushes manufacturers to provide valueadded
products to the market in a faster and more reliable way. Companies can exploit the outstanding
improvements in digital technologies whose adoption has brought to the so-called “Industry 4.0” (I4.0) revolution.
Indeed, technologies such as Additive Manufacturing (AM), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Big Data &
Advanced Analytics, Virtual & Augmented Reality and Cloud Manufacturing are transforming companies into smart
enterprises characterized by the interconnection of processes and assets. Though the adoption of technologies and
the benefits related to this new paradigm has been quite debated in the literature, it seems that no study has been
conducted regarding the adoption level of Industry 4.0 principles in Italy. This article shows the results of an
exploratory survey, in which a sample of 105 companies has been involved, covering the most important
manufacturing sectors. The main objective of this study is the provision of a state-of-the-art review on how the
Italian manufacturing enterprises are involved in the I4.0 journey. Except for IIoT and AM, our findings indicate
that Italian manufacturing companies have a limited knowledge for I4.0 enabling technologies. The survey results
also revealed that the medium and large companies, characterized by a high level of automation and computerization
capability, tend to be much more incline to adopt I4.0 paradigm and related technologies. In the next future, by
adopting the same methodology, we will extend the boundaries of the research involving companies of other
countries, in order to highlight contingent differences compared to Italy
Il knowledge management a supporto dell’AI per migliorare le performance delle aziende manifatturiere
No full textDigital supply chain capabilities to face the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textThe troubles in sourcing raw materials and components, as well as logistics bottlenecks due first to the COVID 19 pandemic and more recently to geopolitical tensions and conflicts, have contributed to strong turbulence in the supply chains. To deal effectively with these disruptive events, the mere adoption of digital technologies is not enough, but the targeted development of appropriate digital capabilities is also necessary. The literature has contributed to investigating capabilities in the supply chain, but the topic of digital capabilities to face disruptive scenarios is an under-investigated topic. In this regard, this article aims to answer the following question: How the digital capabilities were able to mitigate and reduce the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic? Therefore, the purpose of this article is to explore the role of digital technologies to enable the digital capabilities that can face the latest supply chain challenges. In addition, particular attention is paid to the role of digital capabilities in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, this paper adopts the empirical case-study methodology and develops a framework that can serve as a guide for companies facing the challenges listed. This article aims to present the preliminary results of this research, shedding light on the digital capabilities developed by four manufacturing companies, engaged in structural plans for digital transformation
The 4.0 revolution in agriculture: a multi-perspective definition
No full textIn the early 2010s, a new revolution in agriculture has been triggered by the introduction of digital
technologies, such as cheap and improved sensors and actuators, low cost micro-processors, high bandwidth cellular
communication, Cloud based ICT systems and Big Data analytics. As a result, a new phase in the agricultural
evolution started: the so-called Agriculture 4.0. Since the novelty of the notion and the little attention demonstrated
by the literature, a holistic definition of Agriculture 4.0 is not present yet. Indeed, different authors take different
perspectives from which the Agriculture 4.0 concept is studied and explained: Precision Farming Evolution
perspective, Industry 4.0 in agriculture perspective, Digital Technologies perspective, Informed Decision-Making
perspective, Beyond the Farm Boundaries perspective and Ultimate Goal perspective. In the last years, different
authors attempted to define the Agriculture 4.0 concept, anyway lacking in completeness: the analysis presented
shows that Agriculture 4.0 cannot be fully appreciated and understood without taking a multi-perspective approach.
Therefore, a systematic literature review has been performed with the objective to provide a clear and holistic
definition of Agriculture 4.0 and the related boundaries
The distribution planning process in a supply chain with multiple transportation strategies
No full textThis paper compares different approaches to solve the distribution planning process problem with
distribution strategy choice in supply chains, encompassing several production plants and several regional
warehouses that fulfill a set of retail customers with several references. The problem has been tackled considering
two different perspectives: the former is more empirical, providing a heuristic solution (Empirical model) of the
problem, while the latter is based on a mixed integer linear programming model (Analytical model). The paper
discusses the computational results obtained by applying the aforementioned approaches in terms of costs,
optimality gap and computational time to the food supply chain of an Italian subsidiary of a German group
encompassing 2 production plants located in Germany, 2 regional warehouses situated in Italy, that fulfill 200 retail
customers with 19 references. In addition to the computational results that provide a comparison among the solution
applied by the company (Rule of thumb), the Empirical model and the Analytical model, managerial insights are
underlined, in terms of applicability of the best approach within the specific company contex
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