Sustainability of Manufacturing Enterprises: A Psychological Perspective of Linking Manufacturing Layers

As sustainability/sustainable development (S/SD) is still considered the buzzword in manufacturing environments, particularly after showing up and joining Industry 4.0 (I4.0), S/SD is prescribed to be embraced as one of the major perspectives of actualizing I4.0. Manufacturing, in common, is separated into three primary streams or layers. These layers are represented by machine design (MD), manufacturing processes (MP), and manufacturing systems (MS). All these layers constitute manufacturing enterprises. Although these layers coincide or overlap at one point, there's a psychological link between them. The primary layer is called the core and is dependable for designing machine components. The second layer is called the chosen layer, and it is represented by the manufacturing process with which generation operations will be adopted. The final layer could be a given one and is utilized to demonstrate which manufacturing system can be chosen. This paper aims to discover the S/SD for these layers and the psychological interface between them. In this paper, components of these three layers will be distinguished and analyzed, and the S/SD index of linking these layers through a psychological perspective will be proposed and outlined independently and universally.