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International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2022
Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE) is an emerging area of research able to evolve traditional eng... more Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE) is an emerging area of research able to evolve traditional engineering approaches by transcending the technical disciplines. It can be successfully applied in different fields, by combining natural sciences, applied sciences, social sciences, and humanities to achieve a higher level of comprehension and awareness of the context in which industrial products, processes, systems, and services will be implemented and experienced by users (Borsato et al. 2016). Research in TE also incorporates social science methodologies to acquire knowledge about users and context, and solve ill-defined, socially relevant problems. Based on recent evidence, it can be stated that numerous engineering problems can be characterised as ill-defined and socially relevant, too (Wognum et al. 2019). Industry 4.0 is today a well-known paradigm that pushes the vision of a smart factory based on intelligent manufacturing. The intelligence of machines is mainly enabled by networking production systems and real-time process control via cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) to have greater productivity through resource efficiency. However, a lot of aspects need to be included to fully achieve this challenging objective, from selection of sensors and smart components to efficient and feasible data collection, proper information system architecture to reliable data analysis, to knowledge representation and data requirements definition, until production line management, also including the need for people with the right type of knowledge and interaction with humans. Indeed, intelligent manufacturing is not just about machines, as we can think in a general way, but also about people and product-process knowledge management, merging the physical and digital worlds (Zhong et al. 2017). As a matter of fact, creating a smart factory is a complex problem. To support a fully sustainable development, based on resource-efficient production systems, promoting safety, innovation, and economy, smart factories need to exploit digital trends as well as users’ active participatory and collaborative processes (Peruzzini et al. 2020). A vertical networking of smart production systems is required as well as a horizontal networking of smart logistics, production, marketing and smart services, able to generate global value-creation networks, including integration of business partners and customers, and new business and cooperation models across companies and countries. In smart factories, machines are becoming more and more digitised and technologically advanced. In this context, new approaches and methodologies are required to bridge the gaps between technical and social sciences. TE approaches can help to bring the intelligence into the shop floor to provide factories with flexible and adaptive behaviours (e.g. self-steering or continuous improvement teams). Moreover, social sciences are necessary to include people from practice and relate their needs and the system features at different levels (considering the users, the context, the machine, and the interface). Next to different methodologies, novel technologies like virtual tools are necessary to anticipate critical conditions and to envisage possible solutions. In addition, proper training is needed for people to understand the new processes and to be able to work in the new environment and collaborate with others. The new mindset needs to be incorporated on all levels in the organisation, from top management to the work floor. This special issue is aligned with these developments and challenges. It includes invited papers selected from contributions to the 27 International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering held online from 1 to 10 July 2020, hosted by the Warsaw University of technology, Poland (Pokojski et al. 2020) and supported by the International Society for Transdisciplinary Engineering (ISTE). The authors come from traditional industrial countries, such as Italy, Germany and Poland in Europe, and more recently industrialized countries INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING 2022, VOL. 35, NO. 1, 1–3 https://doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2022.2028369
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) has been the subject of discourse in the past few decades, but h... more Transdisciplinary research (TDR) has been the subject of discourse in the past few decades, but has bot been studied much in the context of engineering problems. Many engineering problems can be characterized as ill-defined, like open innovation, adoption of new technology, business development, and the adoption of the Industry 4.0 concept. Transdisciplinary engineering research (TDER) is also performed in large projects by multi-disciplinary teams, as in TDR projects, including stakeholders and people from practice. Such projects may last long, often years. In such large projects, the involved disciplines should include both engineering disciplines as well as disciplines from social sciences. In this paper we address the challenges that exist in adopting a TDER approach. Universities need to prepare students to work in TDER projects. We discuss the current situation in transdisciplinary engineering education (TDEE) and identify challenges that need to be addressed for including TDE...
International Journal of Agile Systems and Management, 2019
Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2018
Lecture notes in mechanical engineering, Sep 25, 2022
Sustainability
Today, sustainability represents a fundamental concept to be developed and implemented in any ind... more Today, sustainability represents a fundamental concept to be developed and implemented in any industrial context. Therefore, it is essential to be able to measure sustainability performance by proper indicators, along the entire lifecycle and the value chain, considering environmental, economic, and social impacts. Moreover, every manufacturing company should have a specific measuring framework to calculate all the specific parameters. In this direction, the modern digital transition and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies are proposing to transform human–machine relations, with a significant impact on social and organizational aspects. At the same time, digitization can help companies to define and implement sustainability by correlating production with proper evaluation metrics. The aim of this research is to provide a complete overview of sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) based on the Triple Bottom Line concept, referring to the three sustainability areas. Such an ove...
In questo volume sono raccolte le memorie presentate in occasione della "Dodicesima Giornata... more In questo volume sono raccolte le memorie presentate in occasione della "Dodicesima Giornata di Studio Ettore Funaioli", che si è svolta il 20 luglio 2018 presso la Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura dell'Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna. La Giornata è stata organizzata dagli ex allievi del Prof. Ettore Funaioli con la collaborazione del DIN – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e della Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura dell'Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, e con il patrocinio dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna e del GMA – Gruppo di Meccanica Applicata.
It is well known that industrial processes require large consumption of energy and other resource... more It is well known that industrial processes require large consumption of energy and other resources during the product manufacturing phase. This exploitation of energy is reflected both in terms of environmental impact and in terms of economic impact, which can be measured through specific tools. The measurement of these environmental and economic impacts is an essential step towards both the control of the energy consumption and energy costs and in sustainability energy assessment. In this paper is presented the extrusion process of plastic materials in a big Italian company. This process is highly energy-consuming and for this reason it is necessary monitoring the energy consumption and controlling the process parameters to increase the energy sustainability and, at the same time, decrease the environmental and social impacts. The aim of this work is presenting a methodology to capture the extrusion process sustainability to have a base line useful to compare the results of any oth...
Systems Engineering in Research and Industrial Practice, 2019
Main problems occurring in Product-Service Systems (PSSs), are due to an inadequate requirements ... more Main problems occurring in Product-Service Systems (PSSs), are due to an inadequate requirements analysis and lack of a strong PSS conceptual design. Problems vary from exceeding budgets, to missing functionalities, unsuccessful market launch, or even project abortion. Furthermore, the special characteristics of a PSS have to be considered already at an early stage of the development process. Requirements Engineering (RE) and design methodology as well as supporting Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) need to establish a common perception of the targeted PSS. At the same time, the inner complexity of PSS leaves requirements analysis, design activities and development tasks fragmented among many disciplines and sometimes conflicting, unstable, unknowable or not fully defined. In this context, a concurrent, transdisciplinary and collaborative design of PSS is required to create feasible and successful solutions. The objective of this chapter is to present a structured app...
Systems Engineering in Research and Industrial Practice, 2019
Product-Service Systems (PSSs) are a new emergent way to innovate traditional products and to ext... more Product-Service Systems (PSSs) are a new emergent way to innovate traditional products and to extend the company portfolio, by reducing time and cost while offering high quality and meeting the expectations of both customers and stakeholders, which have to be considered during the design and development process (Complex systems concurrent engineering. Springer, London, pp. 321–328, 2007 [1]). A further challenge is to close loops between Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) by providing feedback from service delivery to the beginning-of-life phase of products, or defining a structured procedure to coordinate product and service development activities. The objective of this chapter is to provide a common understanding about PSSs, to deepen the Servitization process and its main features, and to understand how PLM and SLM can be integrated to define future organization of PSS-oriented companies. The final aim is to present PSS as a new business model, which companies can adopt to innovate their products and to enlarge their offer to the market, according to a consumer-oriented approach.
Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2017
Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2019
Requirements engineering (RE) is the key to success or failure of every product, service or syste... more Requirements engineering (RE) is the key to success or failure of every product, service or system development project, understanding the development results as the implementation of the specific set of requirements. A good requirements definition is thus the prerequisite for high-quality solutions and reduces the cost of change, both of prototypes and production tools, and ultimately the warranty costs. However, RE for system development is more and more challenged by two interrelated trends: the increasing complexity of systems and the responsibility of the provider for the whole system life cycle. Thus, from a systems engineering point of view, RE has to define requirements for a rising amount of tangible and intangible components from a growing number of different stakeholders. Additionally, RE has to take into account requirements from every stage of the system life cycle and feed the results back to the development process. Many organizations are still missing effective practi...
MSEE represents an initial but decisive step towards uplifting manufacturing services to a much h... more MSEE represents an initial but decisive step towards uplifting manufacturing services to a much higher engineering maturity level, by developing new models, processes and tools (called MSEE Bag of Assets), with the final aim of a peer-to-peer interconnection between service engineering and product engineering along the whole product-service lifecycle. This research and innovation stream, initiated by MSEE in the Virtual Factories domain, is one of the main pillars of H2020 Factories of the Future research agenda.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2014
The Philosopher's Stone for Sustainability, 2013
Nowadays, manufacturing enterprises shift to bundle their products with services to satisfy custo... more Nowadays, manufacturing enterprises shift to bundle their products with services to satisfy customer needs. This process is called “Servitization”. The European project “Manufacturing SErvice Ecosystem” (MSEE) is developing models supporting Servitization, based on Future Internet architectures and platforms. To allow efficient collaboration for the provision of Product-Service Systems (PSS), the business as well as the ICT environment needs to be adapted. However, stakeholders are typically not aware of all requirements for the transition in the areas of physical resources, organization and IT. This paper presents one of the results of MSEE project: the development of an adequate Requirements Engineering approach.
Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 2021
2022 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE)
DYNA INGENIERIA E INDUSTRIA
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2022
Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE) is an emerging area of research able to evolve traditional eng... more Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE) is an emerging area of research able to evolve traditional engineering approaches by transcending the technical disciplines. It can be successfully applied in different fields, by combining natural sciences, applied sciences, social sciences, and humanities to achieve a higher level of comprehension and awareness of the context in which industrial products, processes, systems, and services will be implemented and experienced by users (Borsato et al. 2016). Research in TE also incorporates social science methodologies to acquire knowledge about users and context, and solve ill-defined, socially relevant problems. Based on recent evidence, it can be stated that numerous engineering problems can be characterised as ill-defined and socially relevant, too (Wognum et al. 2019). Industry 4.0 is today a well-known paradigm that pushes the vision of a smart factory based on intelligent manufacturing. The intelligence of machines is mainly enabled by networking production systems and real-time process control via cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) to have greater productivity through resource efficiency. However, a lot of aspects need to be included to fully achieve this challenging objective, from selection of sensors and smart components to efficient and feasible data collection, proper information system architecture to reliable data analysis, to knowledge representation and data requirements definition, until production line management, also including the need for people with the right type of knowledge and interaction with humans. Indeed, intelligent manufacturing is not just about machines, as we can think in a general way, but also about people and product-process knowledge management, merging the physical and digital worlds (Zhong et al. 2017). As a matter of fact, creating a smart factory is a complex problem. To support a fully sustainable development, based on resource-efficient production systems, promoting safety, innovation, and economy, smart factories need to exploit digital trends as well as users’ active participatory and collaborative processes (Peruzzini et al. 2020). A vertical networking of smart production systems is required as well as a horizontal networking of smart logistics, production, marketing and smart services, able to generate global value-creation networks, including integration of business partners and customers, and new business and cooperation models across companies and countries. In smart factories, machines are becoming more and more digitised and technologically advanced. In this context, new approaches and methodologies are required to bridge the gaps between technical and social sciences. TE approaches can help to bring the intelligence into the shop floor to provide factories with flexible and adaptive behaviours (e.g. self-steering or continuous improvement teams). Moreover, social sciences are necessary to include people from practice and relate their needs and the system features at different levels (considering the users, the context, the machine, and the interface). Next to different methodologies, novel technologies like virtual tools are necessary to anticipate critical conditions and to envisage possible solutions. In addition, proper training is needed for people to understand the new processes and to be able to work in the new environment and collaborate with others. The new mindset needs to be incorporated on all levels in the organisation, from top management to the work floor. This special issue is aligned with these developments and challenges. It includes invited papers selected from contributions to the 27 International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering held online from 1 to 10 July 2020, hosted by the Warsaw University of technology, Poland (Pokojski et al. 2020) and supported by the International Society for Transdisciplinary Engineering (ISTE). The authors come from traditional industrial countries, such as Italy, Germany and Poland in Europe, and more recently industrialized countries INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING 2022, VOL. 35, NO. 1, 1–3 https://doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2022.2028369
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) has been the subject of discourse in the past few decades, but h... more Transdisciplinary research (TDR) has been the subject of discourse in the past few decades, but has bot been studied much in the context of engineering problems. Many engineering problems can be characterized as ill-defined, like open innovation, adoption of new technology, business development, and the adoption of the Industry 4.0 concept. Transdisciplinary engineering research (TDER) is also performed in large projects by multi-disciplinary teams, as in TDR projects, including stakeholders and people from practice. Such projects may last long, often years. In such large projects, the involved disciplines should include both engineering disciplines as well as disciplines from social sciences. In this paper we address the challenges that exist in adopting a TDER approach. Universities need to prepare students to work in TDER projects. We discuss the current situation in transdisciplinary engineering education (TDEE) and identify challenges that need to be addressed for including TDE...
International Journal of Agile Systems and Management, 2019
Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2018
Lecture notes in mechanical engineering, Sep 25, 2022
Sustainability
Today, sustainability represents a fundamental concept to be developed and implemented in any ind... more Today, sustainability represents a fundamental concept to be developed and implemented in any industrial context. Therefore, it is essential to be able to measure sustainability performance by proper indicators, along the entire lifecycle and the value chain, considering environmental, economic, and social impacts. Moreover, every manufacturing company should have a specific measuring framework to calculate all the specific parameters. In this direction, the modern digital transition and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies are proposing to transform human–machine relations, with a significant impact on social and organizational aspects. At the same time, digitization can help companies to define and implement sustainability by correlating production with proper evaluation metrics. The aim of this research is to provide a complete overview of sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) based on the Triple Bottom Line concept, referring to the three sustainability areas. Such an ove...
In questo volume sono raccolte le memorie presentate in occasione della "Dodicesima Giornata... more In questo volume sono raccolte le memorie presentate in occasione della "Dodicesima Giornata di Studio Ettore Funaioli", che si è svolta il 20 luglio 2018 presso la Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura dell'Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna. La Giornata è stata organizzata dagli ex allievi del Prof. Ettore Funaioli con la collaborazione del DIN – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e della Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura dell'Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, e con il patrocinio dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna e del GMA – Gruppo di Meccanica Applicata.
It is well known that industrial processes require large consumption of energy and other resource... more It is well known that industrial processes require large consumption of energy and other resources during the product manufacturing phase. This exploitation of energy is reflected both in terms of environmental impact and in terms of economic impact, which can be measured through specific tools. The measurement of these environmental and economic impacts is an essential step towards both the control of the energy consumption and energy costs and in sustainability energy assessment. In this paper is presented the extrusion process of plastic materials in a big Italian company. This process is highly energy-consuming and for this reason it is necessary monitoring the energy consumption and controlling the process parameters to increase the energy sustainability and, at the same time, decrease the environmental and social impacts. The aim of this work is presenting a methodology to capture the extrusion process sustainability to have a base line useful to compare the results of any oth...
Systems Engineering in Research and Industrial Practice, 2019
Main problems occurring in Product-Service Systems (PSSs), are due to an inadequate requirements ... more Main problems occurring in Product-Service Systems (PSSs), are due to an inadequate requirements analysis and lack of a strong PSS conceptual design. Problems vary from exceeding budgets, to missing functionalities, unsuccessful market launch, or even project abortion. Furthermore, the special characteristics of a PSS have to be considered already at an early stage of the development process. Requirements Engineering (RE) and design methodology as well as supporting Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) need to establish a common perception of the targeted PSS. At the same time, the inner complexity of PSS leaves requirements analysis, design activities and development tasks fragmented among many disciplines and sometimes conflicting, unstable, unknowable or not fully defined. In this context, a concurrent, transdisciplinary and collaborative design of PSS is required to create feasible and successful solutions. The objective of this chapter is to present a structured app...
Systems Engineering in Research and Industrial Practice, 2019
Product-Service Systems (PSSs) are a new emergent way to innovate traditional products and to ext... more Product-Service Systems (PSSs) are a new emergent way to innovate traditional products and to extend the company portfolio, by reducing time and cost while offering high quality and meeting the expectations of both customers and stakeholders, which have to be considered during the design and development process (Complex systems concurrent engineering. Springer, London, pp. 321–328, 2007 [1]). A further challenge is to close loops between Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) by providing feedback from service delivery to the beginning-of-life phase of products, or defining a structured procedure to coordinate product and service development activities. The objective of this chapter is to provide a common understanding about PSSs, to deepen the Servitization process and its main features, and to understand how PLM and SLM can be integrated to define future organization of PSS-oriented companies. The final aim is to present PSS as a new business model, which companies can adopt to innovate their products and to enlarge their offer to the market, according to a consumer-oriented approach.
Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2017
Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2019
Requirements engineering (RE) is the key to success or failure of every product, service or syste... more Requirements engineering (RE) is the key to success or failure of every product, service or system development project, understanding the development results as the implementation of the specific set of requirements. A good requirements definition is thus the prerequisite for high-quality solutions and reduces the cost of change, both of prototypes and production tools, and ultimately the warranty costs. However, RE for system development is more and more challenged by two interrelated trends: the increasing complexity of systems and the responsibility of the provider for the whole system life cycle. Thus, from a systems engineering point of view, RE has to define requirements for a rising amount of tangible and intangible components from a growing number of different stakeholders. Additionally, RE has to take into account requirements from every stage of the system life cycle and feed the results back to the development process. Many organizations are still missing effective practi...
MSEE represents an initial but decisive step towards uplifting manufacturing services to a much h... more MSEE represents an initial but decisive step towards uplifting manufacturing services to a much higher engineering maturity level, by developing new models, processes and tools (called MSEE Bag of Assets), with the final aim of a peer-to-peer interconnection between service engineering and product engineering along the whole product-service lifecycle. This research and innovation stream, initiated by MSEE in the Virtual Factories domain, is one of the main pillars of H2020 Factories of the Future research agenda.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2014
The Philosopher's Stone for Sustainability, 2013
Nowadays, manufacturing enterprises shift to bundle their products with services to satisfy custo... more Nowadays, manufacturing enterprises shift to bundle their products with services to satisfy customer needs. This process is called “Servitization”. The European project “Manufacturing SErvice Ecosystem” (MSEE) is developing models supporting Servitization, based on Future Internet architectures and platforms. To allow efficient collaboration for the provision of Product-Service Systems (PSS), the business as well as the ICT environment needs to be adapted. However, stakeholders are typically not aware of all requirements for the transition in the areas of physical resources, organization and IT. This paper presents one of the results of MSEE project: the development of an adequate Requirements Engineering approach.
Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 2021
2022 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE)
DYNA INGENIERIA E INDUSTRIA