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View article: Toward lean industry 5.0: a human-centered model for integrating lean and industry 4.0 in an automotive supplier
Toward lean industry 5.0: a human-centered model for integrating lean and industry 4.0 in an automotive supplier Open
This paper proposes a human-centered conceptual model integrating lean and Industry 4.0 based on the literature review and validated it through a case study in the context of an advanced automotive first-tier supplier. Addressing a signifi…
View article: Toward lean industry 5.0: a human-centered model for integrating lean and industry 4.0 in an automotive supplier
Toward lean industry 5.0: a human-centered model for integrating lean and industry 4.0 in an automotive supplier Open
International audience
View article: A Conceptual Model to Integrate Operations Strategies Into Circular and Sustainable Global Supply Chains
A Conceptual Model to Integrate Operations Strategies Into Circular and Sustainable Global Supply Chains Open
Rapidly increasing environmental degradation means that society seeks to adapt its activities to sustainable environments that comply with global requirements and regulations. The need arises to investigate what operations strategies compa…
View article: A global industrial perspective on lean industry 4.0: a qualitative wide-angle lens approach
A global industrial perspective on lean industry 4.0: a qualitative wide-angle lens approach Open
International audience
View article: Quantitative models for printing production planning in a lean manufacturing approach under uncertainty
Quantitative models for printing production planning in a lean manufacturing approach under uncertainty Open
Demand uncertainty is inherent to production planning processes in a manufacturing environment due to intermittent customer order acceptance, among others. Hence the need to provide approaches and tools capable of facing these challenges r…
View article: Sustainable operations management towards Industry 5.0
Sustainable operations management towards Industry 5.0 Open
Industry 4.0 (I4.0) has enabled a high development potential in the optimisation of production planning and control problems. This article is a preliminary analysis of the existing scientific literature on planning and management problems,…
View article: A conceptual framework for sustainable location, inventory and transportation problems in a supply chain context
A conceptual framework for sustainable location, inventory and transportation problems in a supply chain context Open
Sustainability in supply chains (SC) is a topic that has been widely discussed recently and, similarly to the quest to develop green SCs, it does not contemplate the integration of economic and social dimensions of sustainable SC managemen…
View article: Optimisation of recovery policies in the era of supply chain disruptions: a system dynamics and reinforcement learning approach
Optimisation of recovery policies in the era of supply chain disruptions: a system dynamics and reinforcement learning approach Open
[EN] Incidents like the COVID-19 pandemic or military conflicts disrupted global supply chains, causing long-lasting shortages in multiple sectors. This so-called ripple effect denotes the propagation of disruptions to further elements of …
View article: Job shop smart manufacturing scheduling by deep reinforcement learning
Job shop smart manufacturing scheduling by deep reinforcement learning Open
[EN] Smart manufacturing scheduling (SMS) requires a high degree of flexibility to successfully cope with changes in operational decision level planning processes in today's production environments, which are usually subject to high uncert…
View article: Simulation optimisation of a sustainable copper mining closed-loop supply chain
Simulation optimisation of a sustainable copper mining closed-loop supply chain Open
[EN] This paper addresses the problem of designing a supply chain (SC) according to sustainability aspects. It identifies a research gap where an optimisation model to address the location, inventory and transportation decision in a sustai…
View article: Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0
Quantitative insights into the integrated push and pull production problem for lean supply chain planning 4.0 Open
[EN] Validated quantitative models for lean supply chain planning (LSCP) are still scarce in the literature, particularly because conventional push systems have not been widely integrated and tested with pull systems in sustainable and res…
View article: Quantitative modelling approaches for lean manufacturing under uncertainty
Quantitative modelling approaches for lean manufacturing under uncertainty Open
Lean manufacturing (LM) applies different tools that help to eliminate waste as well as the operations that do not add value to the product or processes to increase the value of each performed activity. Here the main motivation is to study…
View article: Optimising location, inventory and transportation in a sustainable closed-loop supply chain
Optimising location, inventory and transportation in a sustainable closed-loop supply chain Open
Operations management researchers and practitioners have shown increasing interest in incorporating sustainability into supply chain (SC) design models. This means that sustainability must be considered in all aspects of the SC, including …
View article: A conceptual framework for multi-objective facility layout planning by a bottom-up approach
A conceptual framework for multi-objective facility layout planning by a bottom-up approach Open
The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework to facilitate academics and practitioners’ decision making related to multi-objective facility layout planning (mFLP) by employing a bottom-up approach. Based on a literature s…
View article: A bottom-up multi-objective optimisation approach to dynamic facility layout planning
A bottom-up multi-objective optimisation approach to dynamic facility layout planning Open
Dynamic facility layout planning (DFLP) involves determining an appropriate arrangement scheme of the elements making up the production system for each time period into which the planning horizon is divided. When formulating the problem as…
View article: A conceptual framework for smart production planning and control in Industry 4.0
A conceptual framework for smart production planning and control in Industry 4.0 Open
[EN] This article aims to introduce the challenge (i.e., integration of new collaborative models and tools) posed by the automation and collaboration of industrial processes in Industry 4.0 (I4.0) smart factories. Small- and medium-sized e…
View article: Reinforcement learning applied to production planning and control
Reinforcement learning applied to production planning and control Open
[EN] The objective of this paper is to examine the use and applications of reinforcement learning (RL) techniques in the production planning and control (PPC) field addressing the following PPC areas: facility resource planning, capacity p…
View article: INITIAL DIAGNOSTIC OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN A MASTER DEGREE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SCHOOL AT UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA
INITIAL DIAGNOSTIC OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN A MASTER DEGREE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SCHOOL AT UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA Open
The authors of this work thank the funding by the Vice-Rectorate for Studies, Quality and Accreditation of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) with Project: "Innovation and Educational Improvement applied to Sustainable Developme…
View article: Development of a multidimensional conceptual model for job shop smart manufacturing scheduling from the Industry 4.0 perspective
Development of a multidimensional conceptual model for job shop smart manufacturing scheduling from the Industry 4.0 perspective Open
[EN] Based on a scientific literature review in the conceptual domain defined by smart manufacturing scheduling (SMS), this article identifies the benefits and limitations of the reviewed contributions, establishes and discusses a set of c…
View article: Sustainable Inventory Management in Supply Chains: Trends and Further Research
Sustainable Inventory Management in Supply Chains: Trends and Further Research Open
This article presents an overview of the models applied to sustainable inventory management in supply chains and a roadmap for new research. It aims to address the lack of understanding of how sustainability is being incorporated into quan…
View article: Toward smart manufacturing scheduling from an ontological approach of job-shop uncertainty sources
Toward smart manufacturing scheduling from an ontological approach of job-shop uncertainty sources Open
[EN] An integral application of the enabling technologies of Industry 4.0 in the job-shop scheduling problem (JSSP) must contemplate the automation and autonomy of the involved decision-making processes as a goal, which is the main purpose…
View article: Smart Master Production Schedule for the Supply Chain: A Conceptual Framework
Smart Master Production Schedule for the Supply Chain: A Conceptual Framework Open
Risks arising from the effect of disruptions and unsustainable practices constantly push the supply chain to uncompetitive positions. A smart production planning and control process must successfully address both risks by reducing them, th…