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. 2023 Mar:19:e01547.
doi: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01547. Epub 2023 Jan 8.

Intelligent manufacturing eco-system: A post COVID-19 recovery and growth opportunity for manufacturing industry in Sub-Saharan countries

Tsegay T Mezgebe  1 , Mulualem G Gebreslassie  2 , Hailekiros Sibhato  3 , Solomon T Bahta  2
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Intelligent manufacturing eco-system: A post COVID-19 recovery and growth opportunity for manufacturing industry in Sub-Saharan countries

Tsegay T Mezgebe et al. Sci Afr. 2023 Mar.

Abstract

The lagging behind intelligent technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic together have impacted the emerging economy particularly the manufacturing sector in sub-Saharan countries. This paper systematically discusses intelligent manufacturing technologies with an aim to map out their importance and industrial applicability and to show their significance to contain COVID-19 pandemic. Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) is then adapted as a post COVID-19 recovery and growth opportunity to ensemble to production processes of manufacturing industry in the sub-Saharan countries. Proposition of a Triple Helix Collaboration Eco-system that delineate a recursive contribution of Government(s), academia, and industry accompanies the IMS adoption. The intention is to shape the existing industrial challenges through networking in the area of intelligence technologies. While proposing the Eco-system, a post COVID-19 recovery and growth opportunity and intra-Africa scientific collaborations are taken into account.

Keywords: Academia; COVID-19 pandemic; Intelligent manufacturing; Manufacturing industry; Recovery; Sub-Saharan.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Industrial révolutions from Industry 1.0 to Industry 5.0 (adapted from [29,27]).
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Evolution of Manufacturing paradigms (Source: [31]).
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Towards embracing Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (Source: [64]) (A) Cyber Physical Analytic interconnection loop (B) Controlling and monitoring loop.
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Triple Helix Collaboration Eco-system to adapt Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (A) Triple Helix collaboration model (adapted from [18]) (B) Recursive collaboration model (adapted from (C) Systematic collaboration approach.
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