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Literature review of decision models for the sustainable implementation of Robo...
Patrício, Leonel; Ávila, Paulo; Varela, Leonilde; Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela; Pinto Ferreira, Luís; Bastos, João; Castro, Helio; Silva, JoséRobotic Process Automation (RPA) is a rules-based system for automating business processes by software bots that mimic human interactions to relieve employees from tedious work. It was verified in the literature that there are few works related to RPA decision support models. This technology is in great growth and, therefore, it becomes important to study the evaluation of the implementation of RPA. The objecti...
Manufacturing and Management Paradigms, Methods and Tools for Sustainable Indus...
Varela, Leonilde; Ávila, Paulo; Castro, Helio; Putnik, Goran D.; Fonseca, Luís; Ferreira, LuísIn 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.This Specia...
Collaborative and intelligent networks and decision systems and services for su...
Varela, Leonilde; Putnik, Goran D.Collaborative networks and systems (CNS) have received much attention in recent decades to reach a competitive advantage [...]; This work was supported by national funds through the FCT-Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, through the R&D Units Project Scopes: UIDB/00319/2020, UIDB/50014/2020, and EXPL/EME-SIS/1224/2021.
Framework for a risk assessment model to apply in Virtual / Collaborative Enter...
Ávila, Paulo; Mota, Alzira; Bastos, João; Patrício, Leonel; Pires, António; Castro, Helio; Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela; Varela, LeonildeRisk assessment is a theme of large spectrum applied in different fields. In the context of Virtual / Collaborative Enterprises there are several risks whose assessment should be aware to avoid undesirable consequences either for entire networked or for a partner in particular. The objective of this work is centered on the creation of a framework / guidelines to serve as a basis for the creation of a better ris...
The potential of value analysis application in the furniture industry – a case ...
Pires, António; Ávila, Paulo; Putnik, Goran; Varela, Leonilde; Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela; Caldeira, RitaSpecial Issue Editorial - 5; Value analysis methodology uses a structured and methodical job plan contemplating several steps to ensure success in its application. This paper intends to perspective the potential of value analysis application, namely in the furniture industry. To draw conclusions of this potential a case study was developed at an IKEA factory in Portugal. To characterize the customer needs in a ...
Evaluation of the relation between lean manufacturing, industry 4.0, and sustai...
Varela, Leonilde; Araújo, Adriana; Ávila, Paulo; Castro, Hélio; Putnik, GoranNowadays, Lean Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Sustainability are important concerns for the companies and in a general way for the society, principally, the influence of the two production philosophies, Lean Manufacturing and Industry 4.0, in the three main pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental, and social. According to the literature review done in this work, these relations are not well known a...
A Cloud-Based Architecture with embedded Pragmatics Renderer for Ubiquitous and...
Ferreira, Luís; Putnik, Goran; Cunha, Manuela; Putnik, Zlata; Castro, Hélio; Alves, Cátia; Shah, Vaibhav; Varela, LeonildeThe paper presents a Cloud-based architecture for Ubiquitous and Cloud Manufacturing as a multilayer communicational architecture designated as the Communicational Architecture. It is characterised as (a) rich client interfaces (Rich Internet Application) with sufficient interaction to allow user agility and competence, (b) multimodal, for multiple client device classes support and (c) communicational to allow ...
Collaborative framework for virtual organisation synthesis based on a dynamic m...
Arrais-Castro, António; Varela, Leonilde; Putnik, Goran; Ribeiro, Rita; Machado, José; Ferreira, LuísGlobalisation and increased competition pushes companies to grow outside political and geographical boundaries, frequently forcing them to increase product diversification and optimise their relation with potential and effective partners and customers. In this scenario, implementing agile collaboration networks with business partners is a requirement. In this article the authors propose a collaborative framewor...
Analysing Critical Success Factors for Supporting On-line
Varela, Leonilde; Putnik, Goran; Carvalho, Maria; Ferreira, Luís; Cunha, ManuelaOn-line shopping is nowadays is a highly frequent action but there are several critical factors that have to be considered for enabling websites and platforms to be able to offer all necessary requisites for guaranteeing user friendly, secure and also enjoyable shopping experiences to clients, offering them exactly what they expect to buy, and quickly find, among a huge offer available on-line. In this paper a ...
Supplier evaluation and selection: a fuzzy novel multi-criteria group decision-...
Kusi-Sarpong, Simonov; Varela, Leonilde; Putnik, Goran; Modrák, Vladimír; Ávila, Paulo; Machado, José; Brobbey Agyemang, JohnSuppliers’ evaluation and selection is a subject widely explored through many different kinds of approaches and multi-criteria decision methods, and more recently also through group decision making ones. This paper addresses these problems by proposing an easy-going two-phase supplier selection decision model that uses a scientific approach and incorporates performance criteria in screening and selecting the po...