All Outputs (8)

Towards pre-emptive resilience in military supply chains: A compromise decision support model-based approach (2023)
Journal Article
Sani Mohammed, S., Schaefer, D., & Milisavljevic-Syed, J. (2023). Towards pre-emptive resilience in military supply chains: A compromise decision support model-based approach. Production and Manufacturing Research, 11(1), Article 2220768. https://doi.org/10.1080/21693277.2023.2220768

The complex and dynamic nature of military supply chains (MSC) requires constant vigilance to sense potential vulnerabilities. Several studies have employed decision support models for the optimization of their operations. These models are often limi... Read More about Towards pre-emptive resilience in military supply chains: A compromise decision support model-based approach.

Supply Chain Management 4.0: Looking Backward, Looking Forward (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, M. D., Schaefer, D., & Milisavljevic-Syed, J. (2022). Supply Chain Management 4.0: Looking Backward, Looking Forward. Procedia CIRP, 107, 9-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.04.002

About ten years ago, a bold vision with a prospect of largely autonomous factories of the future with digitized processes, data-driven smart applications, and seamlessly integrated supply chains was born and quickly became known as Industry 4.0 or ak... Read More about Supply Chain Management 4.0: Looking Backward, Looking Forward.

A Review of Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Machine Economy: Challenges and Opportunities in Industry and Research (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, M. D., Schaefer, D., & Milisavljevic-Syed, J. (2022). A Review of Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Machine Economy: Challenges and Opportunities in Industry and Research. Procedia CIRP, 107, 1168-1173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.126

Blockchain Technology has gained prominence since 2008 with trust, reliability, speed, and transparency becoming major advantages. It has also been applied and researched within a multitude of industry applications ranging from manufacturing to finan... Read More about A Review of Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Machine Economy: Challenges and Opportunities in Industry and Research.

Strategies for Achieving Pre-emptive Resilience in Military Supply Chains (2022)
Journal Article
Sani, S., Schaefer, D., & Milisavljevic-Syed, J. (2022). Strategies for Achieving Pre-emptive Resilience in Military Supply Chains. Procedia CIRP, 107, 1526-1532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.186

As technological advancement is rapidly evolving modern warfare, military supply chains are becoming more dynamic and complex with high vulnerability to unexpected disruptions. To increase their overall resilience against such unexpected disruptions,... Read More about Strategies for Achieving Pre-emptive Resilience in Military Supply Chains.

Industry 4.0: A systematic review of legacy manufacturing system digital retrofitting (2022)
Journal Article
Alqoud, A., Schaefer, D., & Milisavljevic-Syed, J. (2022). Industry 4.0: A systematic review of legacy manufacturing system digital retrofitting. Manufacturing Review, 9, Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1051/mfreview/2022031

Industry 4.0 technologies and digitalised processes are essential for implementing smart manufacturing within vertically and horizontally integrated production environments. These technologies offer new ways to generate revenue from data-driven servi... Read More about Industry 4.0: A systematic review of legacy manufacturing system digital retrofitting.

A Decision-Based Framework for Predictive Maintenance Technique Selection in Industry 4.0 (2022)
Journal Article
Li, J., Schaefer, D., & Milisavljevic-Syed, J. (2022). A Decision-Based Framework for Predictive Maintenance Technique Selection in Industry 4.0. Procedia CIRP, 107, 77-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.04.013

Maintenance is defined as the actions that allow machines and equipment to work for an extended period of time by retaining and restoring equipment to its original state. In Industry 4.0 context, Predictive Maintenance (PdM) is a strategy that utiliz... Read More about A Decision-Based Framework for Predictive Maintenance Technique Selection in Industry 4.0.

Design Engineering in the Age of Industry 4.0 (2021)
Journal Article
Jiao, R., Commuri, S., Panchal, J., Milisavljevic-Syed, J., Allen, J. K., Mistree, F., & Schaefer, D. (2021). Design Engineering in the Age of Industry 4.0. Journal of Mechanical Design, 143(7), Article 070801. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4051041

Industry 4.0 is based on the digitization of manufacturing industries and has raised the prospect for substantial improvements in productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. This digital transformation not only affects the way products are manu... Read More about Design Engineering in the Age of Industry 4.0.

An exploration of how creativity, functionality, and aesthetics are related in design (2021)
Journal Article
Han, J., Forbes, H., & Schaefer, D. (2021). An exploration of how creativity, functionality, and aesthetics are related in design. Research in Engineering Design, 32(3), 289-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00163-021-00366-9

Creativity is considered to have a significant impact on the design process and its outcomes, while aesthetics and functionality are considered key characteristics of products. A relationship between creativity, aesthetics and functionality is, there... Read More about An exploration of how creativity, functionality, and aesthetics are related in design.