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.
Project Name: PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY AND SERVICES
Responsible for the project: Prof. doctor Oduvaldo Vendrametto
Description:The integrated project aggregates areas of multidisciplinary knowledge. Management permeates several of these areas with aspects peculiar to each one, maintaining the original foundation in (1) logistics, which deals with the movement of people and cargo; (2) agricultural production, which incorporates information, means, and production techniques, including family farming and food insecurity; (3) quality, as an interface between knowledge and management; as well as (4) productive process of information systems and artifacts, in addition to issues of (5) design, organization and administration of service operations systems ;s and the servitization of manufacturing; (6) innovation management, which establishes means and methods to generate value and implement 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.
Participants: Profs. Drs. Ana L&ucia Figueiredo Facin, Irenilza de Alencar Nääs, João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis, Marcelo Tsuguio Okano, Márcia Terra da Silva, Pedro Luiz de Oliveira Costa Neto and Rodrigo Franco Gon&çalves
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.
Project Name: QUANTITATIVE, COMPUTATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL METHODS
Responsible for the project: Prof. doctor Jair Minoro Abe
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) Robotics; and (4) Innovation. The Project also includes the analysis of the relationship between computational methods and production engineering, including the study of Artificial Neural Networks; Genetic Algorithms; Evolutionary computing; Fuzzy Logic, Paraconsistent Logic, Deep Learning (Deep Learning) and optimization techniques for complex systems.
Participants: Profs. Drs. Irenilza de Alencar Nääs, João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis and 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.
Project Name: SUSTAINABILITY ENGINEERING: CONCEPTS, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
Responsible for the project: Prof. doctor Biagio Fernando Giannetti
Description: This project seeks to use and/or develop quantitative tools for the efficient management of natural resources in production systems, management of emissions, effluents and solid waste , as well as the implementation of environmental management systems and social responsibility. contribute to the advancement of science in the subject (theoretical) and to the formulation of public policies and/or production management (practical) in questions such as: (1) Environmental Management Systems and Certification; (2) Natural and Energy Resource Management; (3) Waste Management; (4) Cleaner Production and Circular Economy; (5) Social Responsibility, all fundamental to achieving the Sustainable Development goals of the 2030 Agenda.
Participants: Profs. Drs. Cecília Maria Villas Bôas de Almeida and 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 – Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology 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.