Area of Concentration: Management of Operating Systems
Line 1- Business Networks and Production Planning
This line privileges the countless challenges due to the changes that have been taking place in production with the insertion of new technologies, management process, communication and control systems in production networks.
Research Project 1: Production Management and Innovation in Agriculture, Industry, and Services
Description: The integrated project encompasses multidisciplinary areas of knowledge. Management pervades several of these areas with peculiar aspects to each, maintaining the original foundation in (1) logistics, dealing with the movement of people and goods; (2) agricultural production, incorporating information, means, and production techniques, including family farming and food insecurity; (3) quality, as an interface between knowledge and management; as well as (4) the production process of information systems and artifacts, in addition to issues related to (5) digital businesses and services operated by companies of various sizes, public and private educational institutions, or individuals; (6) innovation management, establishing means and methods to generate value and materialize entrepreneurial ideas and projects in the production area; and (7) Industry 4.0 and its derivatives, digital transformation of production and its impacts on society.
Members: Ana Lucia Figueiredo Facin; Irenilza de Alencar Nääs; Giancarlo Medeiros Pereira, João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis; Marcelo Tsuguio Okano (responsible); Oduvaldo Vendrametto; Rodrigo Franco Gonçalves
Research Project 2: Management and Innovation of Technologies and Mechanisms for Reducing Food Insecurity
Description: Food insecurity in Brazil has reached proportions where all efforts of society must be activated to reduce it. The contribution of academic research must be associated with this challenging and multidisciplinary effort. Cost reduction in the production chain with the application of artifacts in logistics, purchase, transportation, storage, distribution, and consumption. Control technologies to balance food preparation in quantity with demand, as well as prescriptions for variety and quality based on nutrients, adoption of rational systems for the use and destination of leftovers, and environmentally correct disposal of waste. Development of technologies and techniques to support the family producer to facilitate their registration, participate in public calls for the PNAE, PAA, and food banks, improving their income and diversifying their food production.
Members: Irenilza de Alencar Nääs; João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis; Marcelo Tsuguio Okano; Oduvaldo Vendrametto (responsible)
Research Project 3: Digital Transformation and Innovation Management in the Production of Goods and Services
Description: The project involves the development of research and applications related to digital transformation and its outcomes: Industry 4.0 or advanced manufacturing; the application of digital technologies in services and agriculture; innovation in business models; the study of emerging technologies, as well as their relationship with society, the economy, and the environment.
Members: Ana Lucia Figueiredo Facin; Marcelo Tsuguio Okano; Rodrigo Franco Gonçalves (responsible)
Line 2 - Quantitative Methods in Production Engineering
The line covers a set of computational techniques and mathematical tools necessary in the search for solutions to engineering problems, seeking to mathematically translate reasoning and analysis to properly formulate their solutions.
Research Project 4: Application of Non-Classical Logics, Mathematical Modeling, Decision Theory, and Simulation in Production Chains
Description: The project utilizes non-classical logic, mathematical modeling, decision theory, and simulation in production chains for various industrial-scale processes, subject to special conditions that must be controlled, mainly considering international export standards.
Members: Irenilza de Alencar Nääs (responsible); Jair Minoro Abe; João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis
Research Project 5: Quantitative, Computational, and Technological Methods
Description: The project deals with the organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of numerical data, focusing on the following topics (1) Smart manufacturing technology; (2) Essential technological insights for the smart factory; (3) Automation and Robotics; and (4) Innovation and the relationship between computational methods and production engineering, including the study of Artificial Neural Networks; Genetic Algorithms; Evolutionary Computation; Fuzzy Logic, Paraconsistent Logic, Deep Learning, and optimization techniques for complex systems.
Members: Irenilza de Alencar Nääs; Jair Minoro Abe (responsible); João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis; Rodrigo Franco Gonçalves
Area of Concentration: Sustainability in Production Systems
Line 3 - Advances in Cleaner Production and Industrial Economic
This line of research addresses the interface between the environment and the productive sector, focusing on the relationships that affect the competitiveness of different productive systems at their various scales. Quantitative concepts and tools are discussed, used and/or developed, from the perspective of Cleaner Production and Circular Economy.
Research Project 6: Circular Economy and Sustainability for Competitiveness: Management Based on Systemic Valuation
Description: The research project aims to identify and/or propose production management tools based on systemic and objective valuation, using the most important scientific concepts and tools focused on sustainability such as ecological footprint, emergy-based environmental accounting, life cycle analysis, among others. The ultimate goal is the desirable and necessary transition to a circular economy replacing the linear economy of extraction, production, and disposal. Although the concepts of sustainability and circular economy have different origins and foundations, they are interrelated and considered fundamental for the viability of management models based on systemic valuation, making production systems more competitive for an increasingly conscious and demanding market. Carbon market, smart and sustainable cities, ecology, and industrial symbiosis are discussed in this project in response to the social, economic, and environmental demands of a modern circular economy. Members: Biagio Fernando Giannetti; Cecília Maria Villas Bôas de Almeida; Feni Dalano Roosevelt Agostinho
Research Project 7: Planning and Management Towards More Sustainable Production Chains: Process, Product, Consumption, and Disposal
Description: The project highlights the importance of integrating production chains, the environment, and society, evaluating the life cycle of products and processes systematically in pursuit of sustainability. It includes agricultural and industrial systems assessed under a broad approach that includes product design, raw material sourcing, transformation processes, delivery of the final product to the consumer, and waste management alternatives. Planning, management, and quality tools are considered, as well as others that result in quantitative indicators to assist in diagnostics and decision-making in pursuit of more sustainable production systems. Members: Biagio Fernando Giannetti; Cecília Maria Villas Bôas de Almeida; Feni Dalano Roosevelt Agostinho
Infrastructure:
- Three rooms for study and project meetings in the Bacelar building, complete rooms for theoretical classes and seminars for professors and students;
- Three research laboratories with an area of 347 m2 and 32 microcomputers;
- LaProma – Production and Environment Laboratory;
- LabPPSoft – Research Laboratory on Models and Tools for Information Management;
- LAREPP – Laboratory of Business Networks and Production Planning;
- Set of software necessary for research and access to digital libraries through the global network;
- Central Library with bibliographic material classified by the CDU and access to national and international databases;
- IEEE Xplore Portals, EBSCO Host Database, Ged Web, Interscience, Science Direct and Scielo;
- Administrative support given by the Secretariat to the Program's students and teachers.