Sustainable Total Productive Maintenance (STPM) arose in 2021 as a promising, new concept to fill the lack of sustainability in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and allow companies to overcome its implementation barriers. It revolves around increasing the understanding of the systems approach and contributing to setting contemporary companies’ sustainable ideology by supporting orientation toward sustainability from a sustainable maintenance perspective. However, STPM is still in its infancy and is viewed as a complement to the traditional TPM approach and is based on its pillars. Moreover, there is still a dearth of literature discussing STPM. This study aims to present STPM as a novel substitute for TPM while building its unique mechanism based on re-engineered fourth generation management (R4thGM). To pursue such a goal, 94 papers from Scopus, Web of Science, and Science Direct databases published in 2008–2023 were reviewed. This study’s novelty comes from presenting STPM as the best-suited lean manufacturing and sustainability strategy for enhancing sustainable maintenance, encouraging contemporary maintenance (i.e., Industry 4.0 technology-based sustainable maintenance), and supporting second-era contemporary companies’ orientation toward sustainability. Furthermore, based on recent studies, propositions are formulated to achieve STPM. Finally, research implications and future directions are presented.

Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) have immense potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels, and for smart grid applications. Although a great deal of research is focused on technological limitations that affect PEV battery performance targets, a major and arguably equal concern is the constraint imposed by the finite availability of elements or resources used in the manufacture of PEV batteries. Availability of resources, such as lithium, for batteries is critical to the future of PEVs and is, therefore, a topic that needs attention. This study addresses the issues related to lithium availability and sustainability, particularly supply and demand related to PEVs and the impact on future PEV growth. In this paper, a detailed review of the research on lithium availability for PEV batteries is presented, key challenges are pinpointed and future impacts on PEV technology are outlined.

This study explores the efficiency of common propulsion systems present in electric multirotors or drones with normal (tractor) and inverted (pusher) configuration rotors. The work fills the gap in the literature by providing extensive data on such configurations with combination of different brushless DC motors and propellers. The results can inform the development of electric multirotors that are more power efficient by changing the propulsion system type.

Organizations in the 21^st century operate in evolving and highly competitive environments—such environments are catalysts for deviation in organization‐planned operations, including production and maintenance. The differences between maintenance and production, in general, are well known, given the several studies found in the literature regarding industrial engineering. However, the differences between maintenance and production are becoming less significant as a result of increased understanding of the systemic approach to organizations where the whole matters more than the sum of the parts. The aim of this study was to maximize the productivity of a manufacturing factory by applying mathematical programming methods while simultaneously considering the requirements of efficient maintenance. A case study is used to show how systems theory can be used as the basis for evidence‐based decision‐making in a factory manufacturing line in Morocco. Despite the potential for conflict between optimal production objectives and efficient maintenance in high‐performance factories, the four‐month case application suggests that systems theory is a key for arbitration. Research implications are presented along with future research directions.