The link between industry 4.0 and lean manufacturing: Mapping current research and establishing a research agenda

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 2924-2940

  Buer, Sven Vegard ^a   Strandhagen, Jan Ola ^a   Chan, Felix T S ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cyber physical systems; Industry 4.0; Internet of things; Lean manufacturing; Literature review; Smart manufacturing

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEM; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY 4.0; INTERNET OF THINGS; LEAN PRODUCTION;

DECENTRALISED CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL SECTOR; LITERATURE REVIEWS; RESEARCH AGENDA; SMART MANUFACTURING; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; TWO DOMAINS;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85042946228     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2018.1442945     Document Type: Article

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