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How digital technologies enhance competitiveness in manufacturing SMEs
Silva, Agostinho; Almeida, Isabel; Dionísio, Andreia; Rabadão, Carlos; Capela, CarlosThis study examines how digital technologies influence the competitiveness of manufacturing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a focus on labor productivity and export performance. Using a sample of 669 firms in the Portuguese ornamental stone sector, a framework was applied to evaluate five levels of digital maturity through a quantitative approach. This analysis covers five years after the inves...
Prospetiva 2035 - Três Cenários para o Futuro de Leiria e Oeste
Silva, Agostinho da; Lopes, Carla; Almeida, Isabel; Carriço, Silvia; Mouga, Teresa; Carriço, Silvia; Siopa, Jorge; Gala, Pedro; Antunes, MárioA EM@IPLeiria é um think tank criado em 2023 para impulsionar um desenvolvimento sustentável, inovador e competitivo na região de Leiria e Oeste. Mais do que um centro de estudos, é uma fábrica de ideias e soluções, dedicada à análise dos desafios estruturais do território, à identificação de novas oportunidades e ao teste de respostas concretas para problemas reais. Como espaço de cocriação e experimentação, a...
Enabling Cyber-Physical Systems for Industry 4.0 operations: A Service Science ...
Silva, Agostinho; Dionísio, Andreia; Almeida, IsabelBased on the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Technologies, manufacturing industries are witnessing the fourth Industrial Revolution, the Industry 4.0 (I4.0), and digital transformation is a keystone in this change. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are strategic in thoroughly digitalizing companies, and I4.0 operations depend on CPS efficiency. Digital plants are held by digital technologies that provide excellen...
Flexible-Lean Processes Optimization: A Case Study in Stone Sector
Silva, Agostinho; Dionísio, Andreia; Coelho, LuísDuring the downturn in demand in Engineering and Construction Architecture (AEC) activities registered in 2007, the Cluster of Mineral Resources of Portugal (CPMR) put into practice an initiative to boost the Ornamental Stone sector, based on incorporating lean thinking concepts, combined with techniques and technologies to make production processes more flexible. This was called the leanstone hornbook (LH). Si...
Improving Industry 4.0 through the Service Science
Silva, Agostinho; Dionísio, Andreia; Coelho, LuísTraditionally, customers were considered to be destructive value stakeholders, independent of products, and distant from production sites. Industry 4.0 is a hot and relevant topic, driven by digital technologies, which has made it possible to incorporate a new economic dimension: the consumer collaborates with the producer in the co-creation of products. Service Science is a multidisciplinary scientific discipl...
Enhanced reconditioning of heavy-duty pulp industry equipment: advantages of ab...
Ramalho, Armando; Silva, Agostinho; Gaspar, Marcelo; Capela, Carlos; Celorrio-Barragué, Luis; Dan, GlăvanWithin a pulp industry production process, a drop in the performance of a wood log rotary debarker was identified. Such loss of performance was due to the occurrence of excessive wear of the device’s cutting blades, requiring their regular and premature replacement. The material used to manufacture the cutting blades, Hardox 500, has characteristics considered adequate for the required use. However, it was conc...
Towards INDUSTRY 4.0: a case STUDY in ornamental stone sector
Silva, Agostinho; Almeida, IsabelA movement to mobilize the Portuguese Ornamental (OS) sector to reduce waste and improve flexibility began in 2004. Boosted by R&D Mobilizing Projects in consortium and fostered by two of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG9 and SDG12), this mobilization resulted in a new generation of technologies, concepts and innovative practices, matching the needs of Portuguese OS companies, stressing an integrated appr...
Methodological research design for Industry 4.0: a service science approach
Silva, Agostinho; Dionísio, Andreia; Coelho, LuísThe challenge of this research is the conceptualisation, from the service science (S-S) perspective, of the methodological research guidelines for empirical case-studies and frameworks to describe and compare the value creation interactions of stakeholders when they evolve their operations from the current operations mode to Industry 4.0 (I4.0) mode. From the literature review we found some contact points betwe...
Industrial processes optimization in digital marketplace context: A case study ...
Silva, Agostinho; Gil, Maria ManuelWe are witnessing a transition to a digital economy, popularized by academics and practitioners as the Fourth Industrial Era, also designated as Industry 4.0 (I4.0). Among all the available digital technologies and aiming to optimize the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) supply chain, the Building Information Modelling (BIM) is becoming officially mandatory worldwide. Oriented to a zero-waste, zer...
Enabling Cyber-Physical Systems for Industry 4.0 operations: A Service Science ...
Dionísio, Andreia; Almeida, Isabel; Silva, AgostinhoBased on the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Technologies, manufacturing industries are witnessing the fourth Industrial Revolution, the Industry 4.0 (I4.0), and digital transformation is a keystone in this change. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are strategic in thoroughly digitalizing companies, and I4.0 operations depend on CPS efficiency. Digital plants are held by digital technologies that provide excellen...