Market globalization spurs companies to improve their competitive performance through methodologies, accreditations, standards and practices that implicitly involve cost, time and waste reductions which, together or individually, mediate or moderate their entire productive chains. Cross mediation is a tool that can be used to measure this phenomenon. The results show that lean practices, whether individual or aggregated in a construct, wholly or partially mediate the relationship between the supply chain management and the competitive performance of operations in 309 automotive, machinery and electronics plants in 14 countries on three continents (Europe, Asia and America).

The fourth industrial revolution requires that personalization processes of mass productions evolve towards flexible, interconnected, cloud production with greater automation in its machines and operations, called Industry 4.0 (I4.0). However, a homogeneous I4.0 concept, infrastructure state, and other issues are still scarce, making difficult to determinate in the specialized literature, the threshold between recent manufacturing and challenges that companies had to reach competitive advantage through I4.0 inclusion. Despite becoming one of the most popular strategies for continuous improvement, many plants are struggling to turn I4.0 into a success. Therefore, this paper analyzes the current trends of Industry 4.0 in High Performance Manufacturing (HPM), aiming to consolidate the existing knowledge on both subjects, providing a starting point for academics and practitioners seeking to implement I4.0 in plants and offering suggestions for future examination. This systematic literature review aims to synthesize, organize, and structure the stock of knowledge relating to I4.0 and HPM. The results show that HPM papers do not evidence a holistic evaluation of I.40 principles and foundations. There exists in HPM literature manufacturing practices that permit evaluate technology inclusion and their performance but not their autonomy, cloud computing and network between machines, supplier, and processes. The HPM papers trends are related with issues such as adaptability, flexibility, reconfigurability, new information technologies, modularity, automation, etc. Regarding study limitations, it is necessary to study current I4.0 adoption level, technological infrastructure, and cultural factors. The practical implications are focused in the identification of manufacturing practices used in specialized literature to measure how technology inclusion increase companies' performance, proving the technological infrastructure and I4.0 maturity level. The originality of this paper converges on the presentation of some manufacturing practices applied on HPM studies which are associated with I4.0.

Ante la globalización de las operaciones comerciales, las empresas de clase mundial ancladas en países en vías de desarrollo requieren la inclusión de nuevas teorías y prácticas que le permitan, a partir de técnicas de diagnóstico, la identificación de fallas en sus sistemas para potencializar su capacidad competitiva a nivel local como regional. En este sentido, se plantea como primera instancia, un estudio cualitativo, con una muestra no probabilística de tipo de caso, logrando un entendimiento del fenómeno en el espacio que se lleva a cabo para proponer aristas de estudio en futuras investigaciones cuantitativas sobre el sector. Las empresas analizadas son denominadas de clase mundial del rubro de producción de productos de consumo masivo, con presencia a nivel regional. Dentro de los principales resultados se resalta que ambas teorías demuestran una incidencia a nivel macro en la competitividad de las organizaciones (Leyes, regulaciones y distribución). Otro aspecto a considerar es la necesidad del conocimiento en tiempo real de sus operaciones para tomar los correctivos necesarios derivados de los resultados de la aplicación de la Teoría de la Restricción y el Enfoque sistémico (Aplicación de la inteligencia de negocios (BI)).

This article proposes the inclusion of the concept of 'cyberactivism'-which is reduced to the strategic use of digital technologies for political mobilizations-in that of 'digital biopolitics' understood as incessant production of the common, in and through networks. In order to operate this conceptual displacement, the main concepts of cyberactivism are discussed and it is argued that, although these visions help to understand how the networks facilitated the emergence of a general culture of mobilization, they do not problematize the possibilities of catching the mobilizations own network, nor the existence of a digital activism of a reproductive/conservative nature. Thus, this paper presents the idea of a digital biopolitics to think of manifestations as possibilities that emerge from an immanent process of production of the common in the networks. To support this idea, the strategies of two Brazilian social movements are analyzed.