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The Enterprise 4.0 Paradigm: State-of-the-Art, Progressing and Challenges
No full textThe Enterprise 4.0 Paradigm: State-of-the-Art, Progressing and ChallengesThe Enterprise 4.0 Paradigm: State-of-the-Art, Progressing and Challenge
The impacts of Industry 4.0: A descriptive survey in the Italian manufacturing sector
No full textPurpose: This paper is aimed at investigating how much the Italian manufacturing companies are
ready to be concretely involved in the so-called ‘Industry 4.0’ journey. In particular, this paper
focuses on analyzing the knowledge and adoption levels of specific I4.0 enabling technologies, also
considering how organizations are involved and which are the main benefits and obstacles.
Design/methodology/approach: A descriptive survey has been carried out on a total of 103
respondents related to manufacturing companies of different sizes. Data collected was analyzed in
order to answer five specific research questions.
Findings: The findings from the survey demonstrate that Italian manufacturing companies are in
different positions in their journey towards the I4.0 paradigm, mainly depending on their size and
informatization level. Furthermore, not all the business functions are adequately involved in this
transformation and their awareness about this new paradigm seems quite low because of the
absence of specific managerial roles to guide this revolution. Finally, there are strong differences
concerning both benefits and obstacles related to the adoption of I4.0 paradigm, depending on the
technology adoption level.
Research limitations/implications: Future research should focus on developing case studies about
pilot I4.0 practitioners in order to understand the root cause of successful cases. Both managerial
and practical references should be developed, helping Italian manufacturing enterprises to
consolidate and strengthen their position in global competitive market. Finally, it would be
interesting to carry out the same study in other countries in order to make comparisons and suitable
benchmark analyses.
Originality/value: Despite scholars have debated about the adoption of technologies and the benefits
related to the I4.0 paradigm, to the best of authors’ knowledge, only a few empirical surveys have
been carried until now out on the adoption level of I4.0 principles in the manufacturing sector of a
specific country
The applications of Industry 4.0 technologies in manufacturing context: a systematic literature review
No full textIndustry 4.0 (I4.0) encompasses a plethora of digital technologies effecting on manufacturing enterprises. Most research on this topic examines the effects in the smart factory domain, focusing on production scheduling. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive research on the applications of I4.0 enabling technologies in manufacturing life-cycle processes. This paper is thus intended to provide a systematic literature review answering the following research question: What are the applications of I4.0 enabling technologies in the business processes of manufacturing companies? The study analyses 186 articles and the results show that production scheduling and control is the process most often investigated, while there is also an increasing trend in servitization and circular supply chain management. Moreover, there is extensive combined use of IoT, Big Data Analytics and Cloud, whose applications cover a wide range of processes. On the contrary, other technology like Blockchain is not as widely discussed in the domain of I4.0. This picture calls for a future research agenda extending the scope of investigation into I4.0 in manufacturing. Furthermore, the results of this research can prove extremely useful for practitioners who wish to implement one or more technologies, providing them with solutions for applications in manufacturing
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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