“…For example, some firms do not have their own factories, so they can focus on activities that are more profitable [2], while others continue expanding their manufacturing capacity to further drive down costs [3]. Other common strategies include: outsourcing [4], the blue ocean strategy [5], better scheduling [6,7], factory simulation [8,9], green and lean technologies [10][11][12], applying the competitiveness diamond model [13], cyber-physical systems and cloud manufacturing [14][15][16], developing next-generation technologies [17,18], forming alliances [19,20], etc.…”