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Continuous Improvement through Back-office Processes Automatization: a case stu...

Nowadays companies operate in a competitive environment, which means they must focus on continuously improving their processes. Eliminating waste is then crucial to ensure process efficiency, being the main target of both lean thinking concept and Toyota Production System (TPS). Another important factor to consider is the technological growth, which is beneficial to pursue and combine with continuous improvemen...

Learning while developing a game: the case of an introductory course on industr...

This paper presents a case study on the development of games by students in the first year of the Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) undergraduate program at the University of Aveiro (UA). The development of a game is incorporated as a core assignment within the Introduction to Industrial Engineering and Management course, challenging students to introduce the IEM program at UA to high school scholars,...

Integration of process modeling and Six Sigma for defect reduction: a case stud...

The energetic and environmental crisis currently being experienced around the world has brought an exponential growth on the demand for wind energy, and, consequently, real challenges for companies in this sector. Since this industry is relatively new, its production processes require a significant amount of human intervention and have a high variability in the process and high lead times. Therefore, there is a...

Jogar e aprender: à descoberta do potencial dos jogos não digitais no ensino da...

Quem nunca passou uns bons momentos nas suas férias a jogar às cartas ou algum jogo de tabuleiro? Usados com moderação, os jogos proporcionam momentos de diversão, interação social, comunicação, cooperação e competição saudável entre os participantes, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento pessoal de cada um de nós. Será possível conciliar os benefícios do ambiente de jogo com o processo de aprendizagem em sala de...

Quality 4.0: results from a systematic literature review

Purpose – Quality 4.0 is being presented as the new stage of quality development. However, its overlying concept and rationale are still hard to define. To better understand what different authors and studies advocate being Quality 4.0, a systematic literature review was undertaken on the topic. This paper presents the results of such review, providing some avenues for further research on quality management. De...

Modelling forest fire spread through discrete event simulation

Forest fires are becoming a more common occurrence in Portugal as well as worldwide. To extinguish or reduce them more quickly and effectively, it is crucial to understand how they spread. This paper presents a study and a model that shows how wildfires spread, assuming the forest can be represented by a graph, where the nodes correspond to forest stands and the arcs to the path between them. In order to do thi...

Industrial engineering and management: what and how to teach and learn in an in...

Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) is a field of engineering highly relevant for today’s world challenges, with professionals specially trained to improve processes and systems by striving to eliminate all sources of waste while aiming for continuous improvement. However, students entering IEM undergraduate programmes across Europe experience difficulties in fully understand what IEM is, the fundamenta...

Individual factors affecting attitude toward knowledge sharing: an empirical st...

Purpose Higher education institutions (HEIs) are currently under pressure, driven by the knowledge society and the internationalization of institutions. Therefore, a positive attitude toward knowledge sharing is required. Considering that the knowledge-sharing attitude is motivated and executed mainly at the individual level, this study aims to examine the relationship between individual factors and the attitud...

Quality 4.0: An exploratory literature review and avenues for future research

Purpose - This paper presents the results of an exploratory literature review on the topic of Quality 4.0, conducted with the aim of better understanding what different authors and studies advocate becoming, or already being, Quality 4.0. It also tries to identify avenues for future research in quality management. Design/methodology/approach - The Scopus platform was used to search for the documents, using the ...

Benefits of Social Tourism Programmes for Seniors: The Case of the INATEL Found...