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Mateo-Casali, Miguel AngelCorresponding AuthorBoza, AndresAuthorFraile, FranciscoAuthor

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October 15, 2025
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Digital assets in zero-defect manufacturing: literature review and proposed framework

Publicated to: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH. - 2025-09-26 (), DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2025.2563746

Authors:

Mateo-Casalí; MA; Boza; A; Fraile; F
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Valencia, Res Ctr Prod Management & Engn CIGIP, Valencia, Spain - Author

Abstract

Market demand for customised, quality-focused products is driving the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, placing digital asset management at the forefront of Industry 4.0. Digital assets, virtual representations of physical assets, are essential for successfully implementing Industry 4.0 strategies. Understanding the lifecycle of these assets, from design to disposal, is crucial for automating manufacturing processes and minimising product defects. Digital assets complemented by innovative technologies have therefore become increasingly important in zero-defect manufacturing (ZDM) practices, due to their ability to leverage data to improve product quality. However, existing literature takes a fragmented approach, hindering the understanding and integration of digital assets into ZDM frameworks. To address this, this study explores three interrelated dimensions: digital assets, ZDM and the asset lifecycle. A systematic review of 68 recent academic articles was conducted to highlight prevailing trends and synthesise findings in these critical areas. The result is a coherent, practical, integrative framework that provides practitioners and academics with guidance and research directions to help them achieve standardised adoption of digital assets within Industry 4.0. The contribution is operationalised through a Digital-Asset-Driven ZDM (DA-ZDM) reference architecture, emphasising a closed-loop quality pipeline enabled by MLOps to sustain prediction-prevention and detection-repair cycles in real time.
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Keywords

DesignDigital assetsFrameworkIndustry 4.0LifecycleLiterature reviewMlopsModelSystemsZdmZero-defect manufacturing

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 9/106, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Operations Research & Management Science.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-02:

  • Open Alex: 1
  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 1
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 19.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 13 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/10251/231789
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Mateo Casalí, Miguel Ángel) and Last Author (Fraile Gil, Francisco).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Mateo Casalí, Miguel Ángel.

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Project objectives

La aportación persigue los siguientes objetivos: analizar la gestión de activos digitales en el contexto de la Industria 4.0, evaluar el ciclo de vida de los activos digitales desde su diseño hasta su disposición final, caracterizar la integración de activos digitales en prácticas de fabricación cero defectos (ZDM), identificar las tendencias predominantes mediante una revisión sistemática de 68 artículos académicos recientes, sintetizar los hallazgos para superar la fragmentación existente en la literatura y proponer un marco integrador y práctico que facilite la adopción estandarizada de activos digitales en ZDM, materializado en una arquitectura de referencia DA-ZDM que soporte ciclos de predicción, prevención, detección y reparación en tiempo real mediante MLOps.
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Most relevant results

El estudio aborda la integración de activos digitales en la fabricación cero defectos (ZDM) mediante un análisis sistemático de 68 artículos recientes. Se identificaron tres dimensiones clave: activos digitales, ZDM y el ciclo de vida de los activos. Se desarrolló un marco integrador y práctico que facilita la adopción estandarizada de activos digitales en Industria 4.0. Se propuso una arquitectura de referencia DA-ZDM que incorpora un ciclo cerrado de calidad basado en MLOps. Esta arquitectura permite ciclos en tiempo real de predicción-prevención y detección-reparación para mejorar la calidad del producto. El trabajo contribuye a superar la fragmentación existente en la literatura y orienta tanto a académicos como a profesionales en la implementación de estrategias ZDM.
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Awards linked to the item

The research has been funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) under grant agreement No. 101070076 'Optimisation of production and logistics resources in biologically-based industries with critical deadlines in Europe (CLARUS)'.
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