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Development of a Variant Process-Planning Tool: A Case Study
Santos, António Duarte; Ávila, Paulo; Santos, Bebiana; Mota, Alzira; Castro, Hélio; Ferreira, Luís Pinto; Bastos, João; Sá, José CarlosPurpose: This study addresses the development of a variant process planning tool, following the Knowledge-Based Variant Process Planning methodology, applied in a case study and presents the gains achieved. Methodology/Approach: Case study supported by six steps: (1) Feature Analysis, (2) Knowledge Retrieval, (3) Inference, (4) Plan Adaptation, (5) Knowledge Update, and (6) Plan Validation/Optimisation. Finding...
Open X and Neo-Industrialization 2.0: On boundaries
Putnik, Goran D.; Castro, Hélio; Alves, Cátia Filipa Veiga; Varela, M.L.R.; Pinheiro, Pedro José AraújoThis paper emphasizes the need to broaden organizational perspectives through Open X, which promotes sharing and collaboration over selfishness and competition, instead of that industrial intellectual protection through patents can divert resources essential for the growth of organizations. Faced with new realities, organizations need different management approaches with the potential to transform the reindustr...
Comparative analysis of Multicriteria Decision‐Making methods for bus washing p...
Ávila, Paulo; Mota, Alzira; Oliveira, Eliana; Castro, Hélio; Ferreira, Luís Pinto; Bastos, João; Fernandes, Nuno O.; Moreira, JoaquimWater is at the core of sustainable development, and its use for human activities, including vehicle washing, should be done in a sustainable way. There are several technical solutions for washing buses offering different performances, making it difficult to choose the one that best meets the requirements of each specific case. The literature on the topic hardly analyzes the choice of the best technical solutio...
Collaborative planning in non-hierarchical networks - an intelligent negotiatio...
Bastos, João; Azevedo, Américo; Ávila, Paulo; Mota, Alzira; Costa, Lino; Castro, HélioIn today’s competing business market, companies are constantly challenged to dynamically adapt to customer expectations by diminishing the time response that goes from the beginning of the business opportunity to the satisfaction of the customer need. Simultaneously, there is increased recognition of the advantages that companies obtain in focusing on their core business and seeking other competencies through p...
Data science for Industry 4.0 and sustainability: a survey and analysis based o...
Castro, Hélio; Costa, Filipe; Ferreira, Tânia; Ávila, Paulo; Cruz-Cunha, Manuela; Ferreira, Luís; Putnik, Goran D.; Bastos, JoãoIn the last few years, the industrial, scientific, and technological fields have been subject to a revolutionary process of digitalization and automation called Industry 4.0. Its implementation has been successful mainly in the economic field of sustainability, while the environmental field has been gaining more attention from researchers recently. However, the social scope of Industry 4.0 is still somewhat neg...
A framework for collaborative practices platforms for humans and machines in in...
Ferreira, Luís; Putnik, Goran D.; Varela, M.L.R.; Manupati, Vijaya K.; Lopes, Nuno; Cunha, Manuela; Alves, Cátia Filipa Veiga; Castro, HélioCollaborative practices and platforms in the context of Industry 4.0, or I4.0 for short, have to enable integration of manufacturing processes and information flow through digitalization and underlying services and devices to be able to connect humans with humans, humans with machines, and machines with machines on a dynamic and real-time basis. Such integration is also currently fundamental in the scope of sus...
Manufacturing and management paradigms, methods and tools for sustainable Indus...
Varela, M.L.R.; Ávila, Paulo; Castro, Hélio; Putnik, Goran D.; Fonseca, Luís Miguel Ciravegna; Ferreira, Luís[Excerpt] In the current Industry 4.0 era (I4.0, for short) [1–3], manufacturing and management (M&M) paradigms, methods and tools should be wisely developed to fulfil sustainability issues, regarding not just economic but also social and environmental concerns by simultaneously fostering organizational efficiency excellence and transformational initiatives, therefore contributing to enduring business results [4].
Housing and setting constraints: the portuguese evidence
Santos, António Duarte; Castro, HélioIn the last few decades, Portugal has witnessed an extraordinary quantitative and qualitative transformation in housing provision. The pace of housing construction was so extensive that the contemporary real estate market is currently characterized by an excessive supply, vis-à-vis the resident population. In this study, we discuss the impact of the financial process on the housing sector in comparison with ten...
Identification and characterization of national and international meta organiza...
Santos, António Duarte; Castro, Hélio; Nogueira, Ricardo; Ávila, PauloThis paper proposes to identify and characterize national and international Meta-Organizations (MO) that operate in the industrial sector. Through the identification and characterization of some MO, it will be discussed such topics as, the functioning of Meta-Organization, its different forms of structuring, levels of stratification, as well as the relationship between members, among others. Through its charact...
FHIRbox, a cloud integration system for clinical observations
Alves, Nuno; Ferreira, Luís; Lopes, Nuno; Cunha, Manuela; Castro, Hélio; Putnik, GoranWith the recent technological developments new possibilities arise for the use of wearables and medical monitoring devices by patients and their respective integration into the digital health ecosystem. FHIRbox is a distributed system under development by the authors for integrating data from various diagnosis devices, complying with FHIR - the latest HL7 standard for exchanging clinical information. The innova...