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The role of Public-Private Partnership to foster Twin Transition in Made in Italy: an application case
No full textIntegrating Processes, People and Data Management to Create a Comprehensive Roadmap Toward SMEs Digitalization: an Italian Case Study
No full textDigitalization is increasingly gaining interest among manufacturers. Focusing on manufacturing, this interest already turned into a necessity that cannot be further postponed. This explains why digitalization or Industry 4.0 transition characterizes most of the strategies for manufacturers irrespectively of their size or maturity level. Nevertheless, size and maturity do matter in such kind of transition. Literature and practice advocate that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)s face huge barriers to keep high the competitive advantage of their products, thus they first need to act on their processes and internal resources. Among them, lack of competencies and limited data exploitation are threatening the competitiveness for the medium-long term the most. Thus, the present contribution aims to present the results obtained from the integrated application of three maturity models focused on the skills gap, data management, and operations management within the scope of digital maturity. These maturity models were developed as stand-alone tools focusing the attention on a specific need (i.e. operations, people, or data). In this contribution, they were integrated to provide an overarching view to develop a unique roadmap towards social and economic sustainable industrial environments. The integrated model was applied to an Italian SME
Towards Zero-Defect Manufacturing in the Silicon Wafer Production Through Calibration Measurement Process: An Italian Case
No full textIn electronic devices, the number of transistors and components per unit of area is still significantly increasing. In this context, the quality of the substrate of these devices is consequently increasing, making stricter and more pervasive the quality controls that a silicon wafer undergoes during its production process. This issue is extremely important to be addressed to reduce costs in quality controls in production moving towards zero-defect manufacturing. The purpose of this paper is to reduce time and costs spent in calibration procedures of the instruments needed to measure the mechanical parameters of silicon wafers, by revising and standardizing the already adopted procedures. To address this goal, the extant literature, patents, and standard about procedures employed for measuring the mechanical parameters of silicon wafers are studied. The results are elaborated and applied to an industrial case study, the Italian branch of a Taiwanese manufacturing company. In particular, the focus of the case is on the Bow/Warp machine’s calibration which needs to be performed periodically to guarantee a correct measurement accuracy. Such calibration has strong implications for production efficiency and flow. The results are reported and discussed to highlight the key practical and theoretical implications
Defining the Roadmap towards Industry 4.0: The 6Ps Maturity Model for Manufacturing SMEs
Full text linkIn the contest of Manufacturing Industry, in order to keep competitiveness and adapt to the current trends of the market that range from the need for new Business Models up to the capability to turn their processes according to the incoming trends, Industry 4.0 is now considered a major opportunity for enhancing such transformation. However, before adapting these technologies to achieve the mentioned goals, manufacturing firms achieve specific requirements that characterize a digital transformation process. This step turns out to be particularly challenging for manufacturing SMEs which might have a biased view on both their current level of digitalization and/or lack of a clear view of the desired performances to achieve to accomplish their objectives. Hence, a clear and coherent digital transformation roadmap results crucial to move toward a smart manufacturing. In light of this, the paper presents the 6Ps maturity model (MM), developed within the MIDIH project, that aims at supporting manufacturing SMEs in the development of their roadmap towards Digitalized Manufacturing 4.0. The 6Ps maturity model is based on 6 main socio-business and technical dimensions (i.e., Product-Services, Processes, Platform, People, Partnership, Performance), 36 Industry 4.0-related areas and a 5-levels scale of digital maturity (DM). It enables a comprehensive assessment of SMEs’ status-quo, the identification of the desired future maturity level and the subsequent creation of a customized migration roadmap. The model has been developed from a review of extant literature and a comparison of current MMs according to the 31 most common areas of coverage. The 6Ps MM has been tested and validate
Development of a Multi-plant Cross-Function Roadmapping Tool: An Industrial Case in Food & Beverage Sector
No full textThe sector of Food & Beverage (F&B) has experienced a remarkable increase in the diversification of products, leading to a consequential increase in variability, which, if not properly managed, would result in tampering profitability. Assuming that this trend cannot be reversed, manufacturers must foster their operations’ efficiency, thus sustaining their competitiveness. Industry 4.0 (I4.0) paradigm is recognized worldwide as one of the preferred paths to address this issue. By following the digitalization path, companies may encounter different barriers and will require support to overcome them. Specifically, MNCs require to exploit existing synergies among different plants and build common infrastructures. This paper presents a methodology aimed at creating a unified roadmap (TRM) for multi-plant manufacturing companies. The methodology is then applied through an industrial case study to enable the desired digital transformation of a whole MNC’s country branch, starting from the MNC’s objectives and the digital maturity assessment of the single plants. The industrial case, the Italian branch of a Swiss MNC (3 plants), allowed to support C-Levels in identifying the priority areas at subsidiary level and in allocating resources accordingly. Regarding the theoretical implications, the research allowed to shift from a single-plant view, adopted by several TRM studies, to a cross-plant cross-function integrated approach
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Toward a technology roadmapping methodology to enhance sustainable and digital transition in manufacturing
Full text linkThis paper addresses the problem of integrating sustainability and business issues in manufacturing through the implementation of Industry 4.0 and process management. The objective of this work is to propose a novel methodology to guide companies in benefitting the so-called Twin Transition (digital and sustainable) drivers at the operation level for reaching business and strategic objectives. The proposed methodology results in a unique tool to address both strategic and business objectives and sustainability through practical managerial actions and technological implementations. The roadmapping methodology is divided into five phases that, starting from the definition of corporate objective and strategy, provide a comprehensive, multi-dimensional, cross-functional plan of Industry 4.0 technology implementation and related changes in terms of processes and Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) architectures. The methodology is presented through an application case performed on an Aerospace company site devoted to the assembly, integration, and test of satellites
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