This thesis investigates how dynamic capabilities and their underlying microfoundations enable manufacturers to implement digital servitization as a means for circular business model innovation. Digital servitization and circular business model innovation are both gaining traction in the manufacturing …

Wood is an increasingly demanded renewable resource and an important raw material for construction and materials. Demands are rising, with a growing attention for re-use and upcycling, opening up opportunities for new business models, empowered by the use of digital design and technologies. A KPI framework …

Small and medium-sized production companies face many challenges in decision making about planning, maintenance, and other operational processes due to challenges of high variety in customer demand, configurations of the production processes, technologies used and so on. Operation Digital Twinning is …

Presentation of an Alpha version of a Structured Process Framework for Digital Servitization. This framework is co-developed with practical experts during 2 years of action research involving 8 SMEs in the manufacturing industry. The framework is based on process models on servitization and business …

The Self-Production Economy as a trend is based on the availability and accessibility of digital design and manufacturing technology to a wide range of individuals. Such technology allows them to create their own products with the quality and functionality that, so far, only industrial manufacturers …

This research aims to evaluate the usability, efficiency, user satisfaction, and cost-effectiveness of different augmented reality hardware in the quality control process within a manufacturing environment. The study focuses on the application of AR technologies to enhance industrial practices, particularly …

Joint value creation plays an important role in the transition to a more sustainable society. During such a process, conflicting interests, powers, speeds and priorities lead to tensions. Participants in the Circular Innovation Program, revolving around circularity focussed collaborative business modelling …

This chapter explains in brief what is needed to achieve more sustainable manufacturing processes. It develops both aspects of sustainable, economic, and technical feasibility with most focus on the latter. Remanufacturing processes are described together with relevant factors that enhance their effectivity …

Slomp, J. and Gupta, J.N.D., Lean Planning & Control in a High-Variety/Low-Volume Environment, 2024, in Challenging the Future, Proceeding of the European Lean Educator Conference, ELEC 2023, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, October 24–26, 2023, Editors Ton van Kollenburg, Alinda Kokkinou, and Olivia …

The aim of this research is to explore the potential of Mixed Reality (MR) technologies for Operator Support in order to progress towards Industry 4.0 (I4.0) particularly for SMEs. Through a series of interventions and interviews conducted with local SMEs, potential use cases and their drawbacks have …