Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Industry 4.0: Integration, Benefits, and Operational Activities
暫譯: 智慧製造技術於工業4.0：整合、效益與運營活動

本書探討與數位演化技術整合相關的議題，並提供在實施過程中遇到的各種挑戰的解決方案。透過即時案例研究，本書解釋了可用的智慧技術及其在製造業中的運作應用和好處。

Dr. Kamalakanta Muduli, is presently working as Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. He has obtained PhD from School of Mechanical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. He has obtained Master's degree in Industrial Engineering. Dr Muduli has over 16 years of academic experience in Universities in India and Papua New Guinea. Dr Muduli is a recipient of ERASMUS+ KA107 award provided by European Union. He has published 64 papers in peer reviewed international journals most of which are indexed in Clarivate analytics, Scopus and listed in ABDC and more than 31 papers in National and International Conferences. He has been also guest editing few Special Issues in journals and books approved for publication by Springer, Taylor and Francis, MDPI, CRC Press, Wiley scrivener and Apple Academic Press. Dr Muduli also has guided three PhD students. His current research interest includes Materials Science, Manufacturing, Sustainable supply chain management, and Industry 4.0 applications in operations and supply chain management. Dr Muduli is a fellow of Institution of Engineers India. He is also a senior member of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering and member of ASME.

Dr. V. P. Kommula is currently working as a professor (full) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Botswana. He has more than 22+ years of teaching experience and served in various positions with different universities in countries like India, Malaysia, Republic of South Africa, and Botswana. He teaches courses related to Engineering Design, Materials, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management, CAD/CAM/CIM at undergraduate level. He teaches and supervises postgraduate students in Engineering Management and Manufacturing streams. His active research areas are Natural fiber composite Materials, Lean Manufacturing, Productivity Improvement, and Lean Six Sigma. He has specific interest in Engineering Education.

Dr. Purushottam Meena is currently working as Supply Chain Management faculty in the School of Business at the University of Charleston, SC, USA. Previously worked as an Associate Professor of Operations Management in the School of Management at New York Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering & Management. His primary area of research interest includes Big Data Analytics; Blockchain Applications in Supply Chain; Reshoring; Sustainable Operations; Risk Management; Omnichannel Supply Chain; Supply Chain Performance; Buyer-Supplier Relationships; and Analytics. His Ph.D. dissertation won the 2012 Emerald /EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award and was a finalist for the 2013 CSCMP Doctoral Dissertation Award. Dr. Meena was conferred with the "2021 and 2018 Distinguished NYIT--SoM Faculty Scholarship Award." He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles. His research work has appeared in leading journals, including the Transportation Research Part E; International Journal of Production Economics; Journal of Retailing and Consumers Research; International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology; Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing; Industrial Management and Data Systems, etc. Dr. Meena has consulted with several companies in the US and India. He delivered keynote talks at different international conferences and served on the Editorial Board of more than ten journals in Operations & Supply Chain field.

Dr. Jayakrishna is an Associate professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Vellore Institute of Technology University, India. Dr. Jayakrishna's research is focused on the design and management of manufacturing systems and supply chains to enhance efficiency, productivity and sustainability performance. More recent research is in the area of developing tools and techniques to enable value creation through sustainable manufacturing, including methods to facilitate more sustainable product design for closed-loop material flow in industrial symbiotic setup, and developing sustainable products using hybrid bio composites. He has mentored doctoral students, graduate and undergraduate students which have so far led to 72 journal publications in leading SCI/ SCOPUS Indexed journals, 29 book chapters, and 96 refereed conference proceedings, 4 authored books, 11 edited books in CRC/Springer Series. Dr. Jayakrishna's team has received numerous awards in recognition for the quality of the work that has been produced. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the manufacturing and industrial systems area and his initiatives to improve teaching effectiveness have been recognized through national awards. He has also been awarded Global Engineering Education Award from Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) Society International, U.S.A. in 2021, Institution of Engineers (India) - Young Engineer Award in 2019 and Distinguished Researcher Award in the field of Sustainable Systems Engineering in 2019 by International Institute of Organized Research, Best Faculty Researcher Award for the year(s) 2016-2021 consecutively. Coordinator - Circular Economy Club, VIT University, Academic Editor - Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Wiley-Hindawi Publications and Editorial Board Member - Journal of Operational Research for Engineering Management Studies (JOREMS), Area Editor - Operations Management Research, Associate Editor - Circular Economy, Frontiers in Sustainability, Book Series Editor - Industrial Engineering, Systems, and Management, CRC Press.

卡馬拉坎塔·穆杜利博士目前擔任巴布亞新幾內亞科技大學機械工程系的副教授，位於巴布亞新幾內亞的莫羅比省萊城。他在印度奧里薩邦的印度科技學院布巴內斯瓦爾校區的機械科學學院獲得博士學位，並取得工業工程碩士學位。穆杜利博士在印度和巴布亞新幾內亞的多所大學擁有超過16年的學術經驗。他是歐盟提供的ERASMUS+ KA107獎項的獲得者，並在同行評審的國際期刊上發表了64篇論文，其中大多數被Clarivate Analytics、Scopus索引，並列入ABDC，還有超過31篇在國內外會議上發表的論文。他還擔任過幾本期刊和書籍的特刊客座編輯，這些出版物已獲得Springer、Taylor and Francis、MDPI、CRC Press、Wiley Scrivener和Apple Academic Press的批准。穆杜利博士也指導過三位博士生。他目前的研究興趣包括材料科學、製造、可持續供應鏈管理以及工業4.0在運營和供應鏈管理中的應用。穆杜利博士是印度工程師協會的會員，也是印度工業工程協會的高級會員及ASME的成員。

V. P. 科穆拉博士目前擔任博茨瓦納大學機械工程系的教授（正教授）。他擁有超過22年的教學經驗，曾在印度、馬來西亞、南非共和國和博茨瓦納等國的多所大學擔任不同職位。他教授與工程設計、材料、製造、工業工程、工程管理、CAD/CAM/CIM相關的本科課程，並指導研究生的工程管理和製造領域的學習。他的活躍研究領域包括天然纖維複合材料、精益製造、生產力提升和精益六西格瑪。他對工程教育有特別的興趣。

普魯修特姆·米納博士目前在美國南卡羅來納州查爾斯頓大學商學院擔任供應鏈管理教職。之前，他在紐約科技學院的管理學院擔任運營管理副教授。他擁有工業工程與管理的博士學位。他的主要研究興趣包括大數據分析、供應鏈中的區塊鏈應用、回流、可持續運營、風險管理、全渠道供應鏈、供應鏈績效、買方-供應商關係和分析。他的博士論文獲得2012年Emerald/EFMD傑出博士研究獎，並入圍2013年CSCMP博士論文獎。米納博士獲得了“2021年和2018年傑出NYIT--SoM教職獎”。他已發表超過50篇同行評審的期刊和會議文章。他的研究成果發表在多個領先的期刊上，包括《交通研究E部分》、《國際生產經濟學期刊》、《零售與消費者研究期刊》、《國際先進製造技術期刊》、《商業與工業行銷期刊》、《工業管理與數據系統》等。米納博士曾為美國和印度的多家公司提供諮詢服務，並在不同的國際會議上發表主題演講，還擔任超過十本運營與供應鏈領域期刊的編輯委員會成員。

賈亞克里希納博士是印度維洛爾科技大學機械工程學院的副教授。賈亞克里希納博士的研究專注於製造系統和供應鏈的設計與管理，以提高效率、生產力和可持續性表現。最近的研究集中在開發工具和技術，以通過可持續製造促進價值創造，包括促進工業共生設置中閉環材料流的可持續產品設計的方法，以及使用混合生物複合材料開發可持續產品。他指導過博士生、碩士生和本科生，迄今為止已在領先的SCI/SCOPUS索引期刊上發表72篇論文、29篇書籍章節和96篇經審核的會議論文，並出版了4本專著和11本編輯書籍，這些均屬於CRC/Springer系列。賈亞克里希納博士的團隊因其所產出的高品質工作而獲得多項獎項。他教授本科和研究生的製造及工業系統課程，他改善教學效果的舉措也獲得了全國獎項的認可。他於2021年獲得美國工業工程與運營管理（IEOM）協會的全球工程教育獎，2019年獲得印度工程師協會的青年工程師獎，並於2019年獲得國際組織研究所的可持續系統工程領域傑出研究者獎，連續獲得2016年至2021年的最佳教職研究者獎。現任維洛爾科技大學循環經濟俱樂部協調員，Wiley-Hindawi出版的《工程數學問題》學術編輯，以及《工程管理研究期刊》（JOREMS）的編輯委員會成員，並擔任《運營管理研究》的區域編輯、《循環經濟》的副編輯，以及CRC Press的《工業工程、系統與管理》書系列編輯。