Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering papers

Pofolia’s corpus holds 80 papers from Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (2012–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.

At a glance

• Most cited: PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT (2018, 5,551 citations).
• The 20 papers listed have 51,023 citations between them.
• 11 of the 12 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
• 4 have a free full text (open access).
• Most frequent journals: IEEE Access, International Journal of Production Research, CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technology.
• Published between 2015 and 2024.

Most cited

Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals

• PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

  2018 · 5,551 citations

  This paper introduces integrative product development techniques designed to align marketing, design, and manufacturing functions.

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• Digital transformation: A multidisciplinary reflection and research agenda

  Journal of Business Research · 2019 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 168.49 · 4,843 citations

  This paper identifies three distinct stages of digital transformation—digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation—and outlines growth strategies, required assets, and capabilities for digital firms.

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• Digital Twin in Industry: State-of-the-Art

  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 2019 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 210.99 · 3,943 citations

  This paper provides a comprehensive review of Digital Twin (DT) technology's state-of-the-art applications in industry, covering its key components, development, and use cases.

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• Digital Twin in manufacturing: A categorical literature review and classification

  IFAC-PapersOnLine · 2018 · FWCI 131.91 · 3,209 citations

  A literature review reveals a lack of common understanding and inconsistent application of the 'Digital Twin' (DT) concept across manufacturing disciplines.

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• Industry 4.0: state of the art and future trends

  International Journal of Production Research · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 276.68 · 3,125 citations

  Industry 4.0, a major initiative for integrated manufacturing, is emerging from the convergence of technologies like cyber-physical systems and IoT, but lacks powerful formal and systems methods for full exploitation.

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• Design Principles for Industrie 4.0 Scenarios

  2016 · 2,941 citations

  This paper identifies key design principles for Industrie 4.0, a concept central to the next industrial revolution driven by the Internet of Everything.

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• Intelligent Manufacturing in the Context of Industry 4.0: A Review

  Engineering · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 207.58 · 2,816 citations

  This review comprehensively examines intelligent manufacturing within Industry 4.0, highlighting its role in enabling mass customization, improved quality, and faster production of individualized products.

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• Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research

  IEEE Access · 2020 · Q1 · FWCI 152.63 · 2,565 citations · Open access

  This paper reviews Digital Twin technology, defining it as the seamless integration of data between physical and virtual machines, and categorizes recent research by application areas like manufacturing, healthcare, and smart cities.

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• Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0—Inception, conception and perception

  Journal of Manufacturing Systems · 2021 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 176.69 · 2,331 citations

  This paper clarifies the distinctions between Industry 4.0 and the newly announced Industry 5.0, highlighting Industry 4.0 as technology-driven and Industry 5.0 as value-driven.

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• Characterising the Digital Twin: A systematic literature review

  CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technology · 2020 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 21.56 · 2,189 citations

  A systematic review of 92 publications consolidates the concept of Digital Twins, identifying 13 core characteristics and a framework for their operation.

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• Jaya: A simple and new optimization algorithm for solving constrained and unconstrained optimization problems

  International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations · 2015 · Q2 · FWCI 135.03 · 2,054 citations · Open access

  A novel optimization algorithm, Jaya, has been developed that moves solutions towards the best and away from the worst, requiring only common control parameters.

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• Fundamentals of Microfabrication

  2018 · FWCI 30.24 · 2,019 citations

  This textbook update covers recent advances in microfabrication technologies, methods, and applications, reflecting the field's rapid growth and miniaturization down to the molecular level.

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• Past, present and future of Industry 4.0 - a systematic literature review and research agenda proposal

  International Journal of Production Research · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 30.04 · 1,996 citations

  This systematic review analyzes academic progress in Industry 4.0 up to June 2016, identifying current research directions, applied standards, and software/hardware, while also highlighting deficiencies and proposing future research agendas.

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• Digital Twin: Values, Challenges and Enablers From a Modeling Perspective

  IEEE Access · 2020 · Q1 · FWCI 127.58 · 1,743 citations · Open access

  This paper reviews digital twin methodologies and techniques from a modeling perspective, highlighting their transformative role in designing and operating cyber-physical systems.

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• A Maturity Model for Assessing Industry 4.0 Readiness and Maturity of Manufacturing Enterprises

  Procedia CIRP · 2016 · FWCI 93.98 · 1,679 citations

  A new empirically grounded model is proposed to assess Industry 4.0 maturity in discrete manufacturing, extending previous models by integrating organizational aspects alongside technology.

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• Digital Twin and Big Data Towards Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0: 360 Degree Comparison

  IEEE Access · 2018 · Q1 · FWCI 113.89 · 1,632 citations

  This paper reviews and compares big data and digital twin technologies, highlighting their complementary roles in advancing smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0.

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• The Traveling Salesman Problem

  2019 · 1,631 citations

  This chapter introduces the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), a well-known combinatorial optimization challenge focused on finding the shortest route visiting multiple locations.

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• YOLOv8: A Novel Object Detection Algorithm with Enhanced Performance and Robustness

  2024 · 1,621 citations

  YOLOv8, a new object detection algorithm, improves small object detection and video analysis using attention mechanisms, dynamic convolution, and voice recognition, outperforming state-of-the-art benchmarks in accuracy and efficiency.

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• Industry 5.0—A Human-Centric Solution

  Sustainability · 2019 · Q1 · FWCI 76.20 · 1,571 citations · Open access

  Industry 5.0 introduces a human-centric approach where robots collaborate with humans, leveraging brain-machine interfaces and AI to boost productivity without displacing workers.

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• A Review of the Roles of Digital Twin in CPS-based Production Systems

  Procedia Manufacturing · 2017 · FWCI 84.88 · 1,564 citations

  Digital Twin (DT) definitions vary across manufacturing and Industry 4.0 research, with this paper proposing a definition from the H2020 MAYA project.

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Recently added

• An identifiability-guided dual-mode current-conditioned equivalent circuit model for supercapacitors in urban rail transit energy storage systems

  Journal of Energy Storage · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00

  A new dual-mode current-conditioned supercapacitor model accurately captures charge-discharge asymmetry and apparent capacitance variation in urban rail transit systems, achieving 13 mV RMSE and 11 mV MAE.

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• Real-time spectral signal processing for robust thickness monitoring during wafer thinning

  Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 2.00

  A novel Fourier transform algorithm combined with a Z-score quality-factor criterion and dynamic tracking achieves real-time, robust wafer thickness monitoring down to 3 μm during grinding, with <0.5 μm deviation and >80% valid data rate.

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• Joint capacity planning and dynamic allocation for container leasing with asymmetric substitution

  Transportation Research Part B Methodological · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 2.00

  A Bayesian optimization and dynamic programming (BO+DP) approach jointly plans container capacities and dynamically allocates them, improving expected profit by 41.78% over benchmarks.

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• When market orientation backfires: the asymmetric effects of proactive and responsive orientation on marketing capabilities and performance

  Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00

  In B2B SMEs, a proactive market orientation boosts both digital and traditional marketing capabilities, while a responsive orientation hinders them. Digital capabilities drive digital innovation, cost reduction, and sales, whereas traditional capabilities enhance sales and customer performance.

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• An enhanced NSGA-II with Q-learning and VNS for multi-objective scheduling in additive manufacturing

  Expert Systems with Applications · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00

  A new algorithm, NSGA-II-QLVNS, significantly reduces additive manufacturing makespan and energy consumption by optimizing part scheduling, orientation, and batching.

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• Artificial Intelligence-Driven Sensor Network Approach for Optimizing Halted Product Delivery in E-Commerce Platforms

  International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems · 2026 · Q1

  An AI-powered sensor network can precisely track and re-initiate delivery for halted e-commerce products by calculating the difference between actual and paused delivery times using a deep neural network.

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• The 2026 Strait of Hormuz Shipping Disruption: Empirical Assessment of Maritime Transit Collapse, Food Price Dynamics, and Multimodal Logistics Resilience

  Sustainability · 2026 · Q1

  A 2026 Strait of Hormuz shipping crisis caused transits to fall 95.1%, but food prices showed no statistically significant impact, with 57.5% of placebo estimates exceeding actual results. Overland rerouting increased costs 2.4-4.2x and emissions 1.47-3.54x, yet remained cheaper than war-risk surcharged shipping.

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• Improved Siamese Network for High-Resolution Printed Surface Defect Detection Under Few-Shot Conditions

  Automation · 2026 · Q2

  An improved Siamese network achieves 93.55% F1-score for high-resolution printed surface defect detection, outperforming YOLOv8Lite and MobileViTv2 by 10.84–24.36% in few-shot scenarios.

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