OR and analytics for digital, resilient, and sustainable manufacturing 4.0
Résumé
This special issue publishes contributions from the operations research (OR) community
in the following areas and at the intersections of those areas, namely manufacturing and
supply chain digitalization, resilience, and sustainability. The application areas of OR and
analytics to digital, resilient, and sustainable manufacturing systems may contain descriptive
and diagnostic analyses, predictive simulation and prescriptive optimization, real time con-
trol, and adaptive learning. Examples of OR and analytics applications include logistics and
supply chain control with real-time data, inventory control and management using sensing
data, dynamic resource allocation in Industry 4.0 customized assembly systems, improving
forecasting models using big data, machine learning techniques for process control, network
visibility and risk control, optimizing systems based on predictive information (e.g., pre-
dictive maintenance), combining optimization and machine learning algorithms, and supply
chain risk analytics.