Problems, Needs, and Challenges of a Sustainability-Based Production Planning

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The article has been well attempted however some improvements are further needed as suggested below;
The abstract section is needed to revise as it presently gets failed to explore the actual findings of the work proposed. It should be revised by including some data based details
Furthermore, the originality/novelty attempted must also be exposed.
Data representation has been found to be quite weak in the reported work. Authors should revise the article accordingly. 
The conclusion part is further required to be re-written after making the necessary grammatical and punctuation errors throughout the article.

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Reviewer 2 Report

General Comments:

The research article is designed to study the “Problems, Needs, and Challenges of a Sustainability-Based Production Planning”. The paper presents a FIM formulation and case study to discuss sustainability-based production planning problems, needs, and challenges.

The authors discuss the systematic literature reviews, identifying current problems with existing approaches for decision-making in sustainability based production planning. The article is good for sustainable planning of the production system.

The article has some Grammar and English language mistake therefore I would recommend to proof read the article from English native speaker.

My serious concern is about the results of the study which is based on the table-4 and that is single value. How the authors can conclude the results on the bases of single event per season.

The discrepancies of the article are mentioned below to improve its quality.

Revisions:

The authors must write the problem statement of this particular study and also explain the objective of the article in the abstract.

L38, triple bottom line (TBL). You have abbreviated this word without capitalizing each word but in other places, you have capitalized each word i.e., Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) then abbreviate it. Be consistent and your journal formatting.

L52, don’t start the line the word “Also” so rephrase it.

L59-68, you did not mention any citation/reference.

From which source, you have collected the data presented in Table-1. What are the keywords you have used for selecting and downloading the articles? I am sure, many more articles are available on the basis of “Decision Making Methods” in different digital libraries.

L141-144, rephrase.

L145, must be or can be?

L172, relating must be replaced with related.

L173-175 rephrase.

L186-187, mention the right figure number.

L190, makespan? Or make span? Or makes pan? Correct it.

L226, specific products and processes? For example, mention the 2 of each type.

L228, amounts, L229, kinds, L231 uses, kindly check the Grammar mistakes in your manuscript.

L231-32, lab Learning Factory 4.0 of the 231 University of Applied Life Sciences Emden/Leer. Provide website link.

Table 2 should be moved after L246.

L255, Increase the writing size and figure-2 size so that the write-up can be easily readable.

 Figure-3 should be moved after L266.

L269, Renewable Energy Plant, why this is Capital?

L295, changing release times ?

L366, 0.55 and 0.75, replace with 0.55 to 0.75.

L387, table-4, the production number should be a whole number.

The article results are only based in the Table-4. Which is based on the single value observation that is the limiting factor of the results. How authors can justify the results on the base of single values. Have the author performed multiple events to calculate those values?

 

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Reviewer 3 Report

Paper title „ Problems, Needs, and Challenges of a Sustainability-Based 2 Production Planning", Manuscript: sustainability-1629429
The paper should be published because the information presented here will be for the benefit of the community. The discussion regarding the three dimensions of sustainability for production planning is interesting but the efficiency, risks in the production planning or the hazard were not taken into account. From my point of view, "Sustainability-Based Production Planning” is a new concept introduced by authors into another paper (#26) that is pretty interesting but seems it has not been fully defined. The most important issue to respect is sustainability?
The paper respects the structure and the methodology required by a scientific paper.
There are some typing errors: for example on page 5, row 185: a space is missing
“ering at least two sustainability aspects (see [26]). Figure 1presents the literature review 185”

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Reviewer 4 Report

The article discuss about the  Problems, Needs, and Challenges of a Sustainability-Based Production Planning which is well developed and can be considered as the emerging topic in the present time. However, there are few issues in the manuscript which needs to be addressed:

• Abstract is well developed but lacks in the novelty. I suggest authors to revise the abstract and add how this study can be beneficial to industries and academic research.
• Keywords are sufficient but can be revised such as production planning can be added as the keyword as reflected in the title.
• Introduction is well written but no research objectives or questions have been defined by authors. These days studies without the research objectives or questions less attractive. I suggest authors to add few research questions which shows the true motivation of authors to do this work.

I have observed much self citation in the work. However, many studies related to sustainability and production planning have not added in the study such as:  

a. (2021) Industry 4.0 technologies for manufacturing sustainability: a systematic review and future research directions. Applied Sciences

b. (2021) The evolution of Production scheduling from Industry 3.0 through Industry 4.0, International Journal of Production Research 

c. (2021) The applications of Industry 4.0 technologies in manufacturing context: a systematic literature review, International Journal of Production Research 

d. (2018) Sustainable Industry 4.0 framework: A systematic literature review identifying the current trends and future perspectives, Process Safety and Environmental Protection

e. (2020) Smart production planning and control in the Industry 4.0 context: A systematic literature review, Computers and Industrial Engineering

f. (2015) Sustainability in manufacturing operations scheduling: A state of the art review, Journal of Manufacturing Systems

g. (2021) Two decades of research trends and transformations in manufacturing sustainability: A systematic literature review and future research agenda, Production Engineering

These all papers are key papers in the Production Planning in Industry 4.0 context with sustainability aspects which have not included in the manuscript. I suggest authors to add these papers in the literature and remove some self citations. 

• Results and discussion part is clearly discussed by the authors. 
• Table 3 is useful can be explained in the better way.
• Conclusion section is somewhere missing. A seperate section is needed. 
• Limitation have discussed by authors but somewhere limited to a specific objective which can be revised. 
• Future scopes are also need to be mention. 
• The overall paper is good and can be accepted for the publication after the minor revision after incorporating reviewers comments. 

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

No change is required.