This paper delves into the integration of Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector, providing a framework tailored for adoption in India, a rapidly advancing digital economy. The current literature does not go into detail on industry 4.0 technology in the context of agile manufacturing. Addressing this critical gap in the literature, we identify 15 criteria across six categories, leveraging the entropy method to compute their weights. We prioritize Industry 4.0 technologies in the context of agile manufacturing using a comprehensive analysis that employs the TOPSIS and Fuzzy DEMATEL methodologies. Results indicate that cybersecurity, Cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are the most commonly used technologies in agile manufacturing. The fuzzy DEMATEL-based framework identifies cybersecurity, Big data, Cloud, simulation, augmented reality, and IoT as ‘cause’ technologies, while additive manufacturing, robotics, mobile devices, and systems integration are identified as ‘effect’ technologies. The paper proposes practical strategies for managers in India to facilitate the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies, thereby enhancing firms' agility in the digital age. By highlighting the specific technologies critical to agile manufacturing, our study not only addresses a notable gap in the literature but also provides a roadmap for their practical implementation, empowering businesses to thrive in an increasingly digitalized landscape.

Additive manufacturing (AM) is an advanced technique to fabricate a three-dimensional object while utilizing materials with minimal wastage to produce complex shape geometries. This technique has escalated practically as well as academically, resulting in a wide range of utility in the current global scenario to ease the manufacturing of complex and intricate objects with the use of various materials, depending upon the properties and availability of the same. Every industries wants to achieve the sustainability, easily can be possible through this manufacturing process. Due to the scope for a large number of design, material and processing combinations, a detailed outlook to how additive manufacturing can be optimized for a highly sustainable and standardized manufacturing practice needs to be assessed and understood. This paper discusses the core knowledge available regarding this manufacturing process and highlights the different processes related to this technique through review of various research papers. And also discuss the sustainability of important additive manufacturing process. Along with the fundamental analysis of this process, the paper also discusses the various attributes of the process and the growth with respect to the latest trends and techniques currently used in industries.

SMEs play an important role in manufacturing output, hence its growth and studies are essential. In today’s globalization-oriented world, sustainable manufacturing is achieved through cost preserving and at the same time being environmentally aware. With prior information, Lean, Green and Agile manufacturing system (LGAM) can achieve huge success if they are implemented simultaneously. Hence SMEs must integrate into LGAMS as it would take concern of environment, economically and also socially. Thus, in this paper a detailed study is being provided on factors affecting LGAM from industrial experts, academia and with the help of literature review. The factors are identified and ranked with the help of entropy approach and VIKOR. The result shows that customer feedback system, empowered worker and innovation are the three most important factors for implementation of integrated LGAM in SMEs. Finally, the paper binds up with managing a ramification which helps in framing the policy for governmental or industrial organization for considering some crucial factors to alleviate the integrated LGAM effectuation in Indian SMEs with limited funds and resources.

The goal of this exploratory paper is to focus on the present status of implementation of the agile system in health care. In this article, analysis emphasizes the definition of agile in health care, enablers cum characteristic, implementation procedure, and barriers. An inclusive research of the literature pertaining to the implementation of this system in health care was used to produce a technique to implement it. A system that is flexible in nature and enables to respond quickly to customer demand and market fluctuations while still optimizing costs and quality by adopting upgraded tools, processes, and trainings is termed as an agile system. The agile system in health care basically offers an efficient framework to organize and govern process improvement. It can be only accomplished if a systems approach is enforced together with a proper orientation. The common implementation steps suggest conduct agile training, start pilot projects, and executing improvements using interdisciplinary teams. Lack of instructors and advisors is one of the barriers and they can furnish support by sharing their knowledge and experience and illustrating with help of an example from real-life applications of agile in health care.

In the contemporary marketplace, the rate of competition is high both at local and global levels. Rolling industries are used for manufacturing materials which are used further for developing various finished products. The products developed are in accordance with a volatile market keeping in mind the cost and productivity. Thus, the manufacturing system, i.e., integrated lean-agile manufacturing system (LAMS) can be adopted. However, the implementation of the integrated form of manufacturing can be difficult to accomplish. Some attributes and sub-attributes are there which besides having an impact on the implementation process. This paper’s main objective is the identification and analysis of the attributes. These attributes have been determined with the help of literature review, and then the rating is implemented using the questionnaire survey and fuzzy agility evaluation (FAE) approach has been utilized for the analysis of the agility level of the rolling industry.