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Adopting smart manufacturing technologies significantly enhances organizational flexibility and productivity, enabling industrial companies to respond more effectively to market and demand fluctuations compared to traditional manufacturing. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To analyze how smart manufacturing technologies enhance production flexibility and responsiveness to market fluctuations in industrial enterprises.

May 28, 2026F1000ResearchOpen Access

Smart Manufacturing and Production Flexibility under Market and Demand Fluctuations: Evidence from Electrical and Electronic Industrial Companies in Iraq

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To analyze how smart manufacturing technologies enhance production flexibility and responsiveness to market fluctuations in industrial enterprises.
Survey conducted in electrical and electronic industrial companies in Iraq.
Data analysis using confirmatory factor analysis and balanced free least squares method.
Smart manufacturing significantly enhances organizational flexibility and productivity compared to traditional methods.
Companies adopting smart manufacturing show improved capability to cope with market and demand uncertainty.

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Randomized trial analyzes smart manufacturing benefits on production flexibility in industrial companies, suggesting significant advantages over traditional methods.

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Hussein et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Randomized trial analyzes smart manufacturing benefits on production flexibility in industrial companies, suggesting significant advantages over traditional methods.

Smart Manufacturing and Production Flexibility under Market and Demand Fluctuations: Evidence from Electrical and Electronic Industrial Companies in Iraq

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Smart Manufacturing and Production Flexibility under Market and Demand Fluctuations: Evidence from Electrical and Electronic Industrial Companies in Iraq

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