Innovation, Safe and Smart Sustainable Manufacturing—A Bibliometric Review

This chapter presents a bibliometric review of 376 documents related to sustainable manufacturing, innovation, industrial safety, and intelligent manufacturing. The information was obtained from the Scopus database on January 12, 2023, and analyzed using VOSviewer 1.6.18 and Bibliometrix software. The results indicate that sustainable manufacturing is of growing academic and scientific interest, with the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and India being the most productive countries. In addition, the most produced documents were articles and conference papers, although there were some reviews and book chapters. The main application areas are engineering and computer science, as manufacturing is studied in the former and hardware and software integration in the latter. The main agencies sponsoring this type of research are the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Science Foundation of the USA. The Journals that publish on sustainable manufacturing are Procedia CIRP and Sustainability, although they are not the most cited journals. After observing the trend in the number of publications and the number of institutions from which they originate, it is concluded that this topic will continue to grow in future years, given the trends towards Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0, where environmentally and human-friendly production processes are required.