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As Industry 4.0 continues to progress, innovations and the convergence of technologies open up the possibility of designing and managing the supply network in entirely new ways. Pioneering companies are already pushing the envelope of the possible, with initiatives and capabilities such as anticipatory shipping. We witness the rise of the smart, always-on, always-connected, real-time and dynamically adaptive digital supply network.
By Diana Berry, Casey Spansel, Cindy Young, Linda Ng Boyle, Janis Terpenny and Sneha Sinha
This article is a summary of two IISE Chapter 1
Performance Excellence webinars held in April.
Regardless of your business situation in the context
of COVID-19, we provide some ways to think
through how to develop rapid, appropriate/effective
responses that are scalable and sustainable.
By David Poirier, D. Scott Sink and Jim Tompkins
Quality 4.0 is an emerging research area and this article proposes the key ingredients for its effective implementation. Included are essential ingredients from the existing literature. The next stage of the research is to evaluate these ingredients and explore further to see if any other essential ingredients are missing.
By Jiju Antony
Alice E. Smith is the Joe W. Forehand/Accenture
Distinguished Professor of industrial and
systems engineering and joint appointment
professor of computer science and software
engineering at Auburn University. Her recent
book is Women in Industrial and Systems
Engineering.