The recent advancement of digitalization and information and communication technology (ICT) has not only shifted the manufacturing paradigm towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution, namely Industry 4.0, but also provided opportunities for a smart logistics transformation. Despite studies have focused on improving the smartness, connectivity, and autonomy of isolated logistics operations with a primary ...

Digital Twin is a tool used for monitoring systems and controlling systems at a distance; the twining of systems has been around ever since NASA’s Apollo mission; creating a digital twin lets people monitor the system in real-time. A digital twin also allows for modeling, configuration, testing, optimization, and research under dynamic circumstances; it also provides for hazardous free training on ...

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply, demand, and logistics have all been affected. Due to its unpredictable severity, the pandemic has highlighted the need to modify the existing supply chain model, the consumer structure model, and the digitization of markets. At the same time, the situation under COVID-19 offers increasing opportunities for e-commerce, including new business models and ...

The CO2 emission is considered as one of the main elements for causing the global climatic change. The maritime industry contributes about 2.5% of the worldwide CO2 gas emission annually. The International Maritime Industry (IMO) has set the target of has set the target of reducing the total annual emission from international shipping to 70% by 2050. So, the carbon capture, utilization, and storage ...

In order to optimize the wind turbine operation in ice prone cold regions, it is important to better understand the ice accretion process and how it affects the wind turbine performance. In this paper, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based 2D and 3D numerical techniques are used to simulate the airflow/droplet behaviour and resultant ice accretion on a 300 kW wind turbine blade. The aim is to ...

Integrated scheduling of distributed manufacturing operations has implications for supply chain optimization and requires further investigations to facilitate its application area for various industry settings. This study extends the limited literature of the distributed two-stage production-assembly scheduling problems offering a twofold contribution. First, an original mathematical extension, the ...

With growing concerns about the depletion of rare-earth elements, managing End-of-Life products has become a key sustainability initiative in the supply chains of global corporations. Recycling, the process of dismantling, separating, and recovery of components and raw materials from wastes, is technologically challenging and should be planned in such a way as to ensure operational efficiency ...

Traditionally, product deletion is a reactive decision driven by low sales volume and profit margin. However, the complexities involved in product management and consumer behavior volatilities make it necessary to account for a broad range of financial and non-financial factors. Besides, proactive product deletion may be required for a company to reduce the risk of draining resources, adjust to the ...

This article presents an energetic, exergetic, and environmental (3E) analysis of a solar powered simple Rankine Organic Cycle (ORC). The ORC is simulated using three organic working fluids, such as Toluene, Cyclohexane, and Acetone, meanwhile the solar system uses thermal oil Therminol 75. The present study shows the performance of this coupled system using historical solar annual radiation data ...

Nowadays, the market competition becomes increasingly fierce due to diversified customer needs, stringent environmental requirements, and global competitors. One of the most important factors for companies to not only survive but also thrive in today’s competitive market is their logistics performance. This paper aims, through a systematic literature analysis of 115 papers from 2012 to 2020, at ...