Diolino J Santos Filho

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of São Paulo

Ventricular assist devices (VADs) are designed to provide sufficient blood flow to patients with severe heart failure. Once implanted, the patient becomes dependent on the VAD, making it essential to prevent situations that could harm the patient while receiving circulatory support. VADs are classified as critical systems (CS), and adverse events (...

Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) are designed to provide adequate blood flow to patients suffering from heart failure. Once implanted, the patient becomes dependent on the VAD, making it unacceptable to have situations with the potential to cause harm to patients on circulatory support. The VADs can be categorized as Critical Systems (CS), as devi...

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a Physiological Control of Left Ventricular Assist Device (PC-LVAD) system within the Health 4.0 (H4) platform, using an Intelligent Embedded System (IES). The main aim was to personalize control systems and integrate medical devices into the treatment of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patients,...

In patients with severe heart disease, the implantation of a ventricular assist device (VAD) may be necessary, especially in patients with an indication for heart transplantation. For this, the Institute Dante Pazzanese of Cardiology (IDPC) has developed an implantable centrifugal blood pump that will be able to help a diseased human heart to maint...

Manufacturing systems need to meet Industry 4.0 (I4.0) guidelines to deal with uncertainty in scenarios of turbulent demand for products. The engineering concepts to define the service’s resources to manufacture the products will be more flexible, ensuring the possibility of re-planning in operation. These can follow the engineering paradigm based...

Manufacturing systems need to meet I4.0 guidelines to deal with uncertainty in scenarios of turbulent demand for products. The engineering concepts to define the service’s resources to manufacture the products will be more flexible, ensuring the possibility of re-planning in operation. These can follow the engineering paradigm based on capabilities...

Manufacturing systems need to meet I4.0 guidelines to deal with uncertainty in scenarios of turbulent demand for products. The engineering concepts to define the service’s resources to manufacture the products will be more flexible, ensuring the possibility of re-planning in operation. These can follow the engineering paradigm based on capabilities...

For Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) projects, a method was developed that can measure, in vitro, the improvement in reliability and risks based on Inherent Safety concept, and criteria for project validation. The samples of VAD used and developed in this research project were VAD.PETG-01 and VAD.PETG-02. The VAD.PETG.01, has a top housing and base...

Traditional manufacturing systems implement paradigms to insert more flexibility and reconfigurability in their control structure. However, these concepts deliver flexibility from reconfiguring components to meet new demand at a higher granularity level. In these systems are specified control mechanisms with predictably utilizing resource functiona...

The fourth industrial revolution has driven initiatives worldwide following the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) context, requiring better integration and relationship between elements. This work was applied the Reference Architecture Model Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0) to present new models for standardizing entities in the I4.0 context to migrate legacy systems and...

This work proposes a framework for synthesis of safety-related control design in the process industries based on two aspects: (i) critical faults prevention and mitigation and, (ii) pathogenic accidents. The approaches found in the literature are based on the development of control solutions that use the results of hazard identification and risk an...

A Indústria 4.0 (I4.0) é uma referência para uma revolução industrial baseada em novos paradigmas produtivos. Os novos paradigmas consideram a conectividade entre todos os ativos (equipamentos, máquinas, sensores, pessoas, sistemas), aumentando exponencialmente a quantidade de dados gerados, transmitidos e processados o que incrementa ainda mais a...

As mudanças constantes e as incertezas do mercado discutidas no contexto da Indústria 4.0 exigem sistemas de controle produtivos mais flexíveis e modulares permitindo mudança rápida na cadeia produtiva descentralizada. Entretanto, os sistemas de controle tradicionais (legados) tornam-se rígidos, concebidos por meio de arquiteturas hierárquicas espe...

Resumo Os processos de extração e tratamento de petróleo e gás num contexto da Indústria 4.0 (I4.0) devem considerar um aumento muito significativo na troca e armazenamento de dados a partir da interação entre ativos (e.g. máquinas, sistemas, pessoas). Esses dados são fundamentais para assegurar a autonomia na tomada de decisão para uso otimizado d...

In the current digital era, the physical world has a cyber-representation. Both the real and virtual worlds are connected in areas, such as informatics and manufacturing. This phenomenon is currently emerging in health applications. Health 4.0 (H4.0) refers to a group of initiatives aiming to improve medical care for patients, change the business p...

In an Industry 4.0 (I4.0) context there is significant increase in information exchange and storage through the interaction among assets (machines, systems, and people). These data are important because it can lead to the autonomy of assets in decision making. However, the entire organization of I4.0 assets in terms of the quantity and the quality...

Clinical data surveys indicate a significant number of deaths deriving from diseases in the human cardiovascular system (HCS). This is one of the main motivations for identifying problems in this system and ways for solving them totally or partially. In this work, HCS is modeled as a hybrid system (discrete event systems combined with systems of co...

Implantable Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) used as heart failure advanced therapy have adverse events, including VAD malfunction. A method for improving the reliability of VAD through a risk analysis and inherent safety recommendations for bench-tested VAD is proposed. The result is presentation of an algorithm to validate VAD design. The method...

Natural resources management is essential, especially of water distribution within cities. In Brazil, water losses in distribution systems go up to around 38%. In the context of “Smart Cities”, technologies that use “The Internet of Things” can be applied to reduce such losses. The present article shows that leakages produce distinctive noise rangi...

One of the foundations for Industry 4.0 is the integration of various industrial elements (i.e. sensors, machines, and services) so that these devices can decide in a relatively autonomous way the level of integration which will be adopted. Thus, it is important to understand how the communication Machine to Machine is effectively realized and how...

This article regards over analytics of reliability of ventricular assist devices (VAD) used as therapy for advanced heart failure conditions in the face of malfunction related adverse events. This question directs research and the search for a solution proposal, even if prospective, but that promotes the longevity of these devices, increasing the i...

The fourth industrial revolution, also called Industry 4.0, is a new industrial age that have been gaining force and new followers around the world. The Industry 4.0 can be understood as the implementation of the smart factory to provide smart products and services that meet the consumer individual needs. Given its increasing acceptance and repercu...

In general, the performance of productive systems considers the efficient use of technological transformation resources (such as machines and raw materials), information processing, and handling/transportation operations. However, there are no normalized criteria or rules to evaluate the performance of a productive system in the context of sustaina...

This paper proposes a new probabilistic approach for safety-related systems design based on modeling accident scenarios with databases where missing data is a major concern. The method is based on (1) multivariate im-putation by chained equations that addresses the problem of missing data in industrial databases, (2) Bayesian network learning appro...

Sustainability management at the production control can make business feasible and profitable, ensuring the safety of the employees, communities and consumers, in addition to the efficient use of resources/raw materials. However, industrial standards do not describe how to deal with sustainability at PS design and their control. Therefore, this pap...

Sustainability management at the production control can make business feasible and profitable, ensuring the safety of the employees, communities and consumers, in addition to the efficient use of resources/raw materials. However, industrial standards do not describe how to deal with sustainability at Productive Systems (PSs) design and their contro...

Soybean production has expanded intensively in South America over the last decades. As the second leading worldwide soybean producer, Brazil has in prospect to increase market share through production growth in soybean areas. Therefore, soybean fields ought to encompass a sizeable region among different types of soil and climate conditions, and so...

There is a kind of movement for people to consider sustainability in all their daily activities, not only in the acquisition of goods and services but including the care for health. This induces the emergence of a new business model. Any type of production system (PS) should thus consider sustainability in all its activities and a relationship, whi...

There is a kind of movement for people to consider sustainability in all their daily activities, not only in the acquisition of goods and services but including the care for health. This induces the emergence of a new business model. Any type of production system (PS) should thus consider sustainability in all its activities and a relationship, whi...

In a new industrial business model, all aspects of sustainability, i.e. (i) environmental for reduction of negative impacts of using resources, (ii) economic for viability and profitability of business, (iii) social for assuring the safety of employees, communities and consumers, and (iv) technological for efficient and safe use of production resou...

The fourth industrial revolution, also called Industry 4.0, goes in favour of the consolidation of the smart factory by the creation of smart products, procedures and processes, in a way to offer on-demand personalized services that can meet the needs of individual consumers. It is based on high information and communication technology and the appl...

Available industrial standards do not explicitly consider how to treat sustainability indicators in PS design and its control system. Therefore, this paper proposes a framework to systematize the performance evaluation process for industrial PS considering indicators that qualify and quantify its sustainability. The framework adopts Petri net techn...

This paper proposes a control architecture for reconfigurable manufacturing systems and its design method based on Petri nets (Input Output Place Transition and Production Flow Schema), Service-Oriented Architecture and Holonic and Multi-Agent System techniques, among other good practices. The control architecture integrates value-added activities,...

Productive systems (PS) should currently consider beyond the efficient use of the resources (such as technological transformation, handling and material transport) also the dispersed distribution of the productive plants and sustainability concepts to allow the adequate use of environmental resources and reduce costs through local facilities. Howev...

The evolution of mechatronics systems has allowed aggregating different functionalities (turning, milling and drilling) in the same machine, called a multifunctional machine tool (MMT). This paper proposes a method for dynamic resource allocation that considers the functional flexibility of MMTs to be controlled in real time. This is done by using...

Research and government agencies from Germany has been leading the fourth industrial revolution, also referred as Industry 4.0, a concept that have been gaining force and new followers around the world. The main purpose of this emergent concept is to consolidate the smart factory, to enable the creation of on-demand and personalized smart products...

This paper presents a step-by-step method to implement a Reconfigurable and Distributed Manufacturing Control System (RDMCS), which must allow the integration of value-added activities, information, resources and knowledge among heterogeneous business workflow of manufacturing subsystems in different geographical locations. These subsystems need to...

Resumo— O paradigma da indústria 4.0 propõe novos desafios na modelagem de sistemas de controle, tais como a integração de novas tecnologias de interação entre homem e máquinas, colaboração entre todas as entidades do sistema e maior autonomia no fornecimento de serviços ou produtos. Desenvolver este sistema de controlé e uma tarefa complexa, e emb...

Safety is an important issue that has increasingly been focused on. The reasons are the numerous accidents in process industries which require a hard look at current practices such as process design, process control, risk analysis and control, and risk assessment. Critical faults in process industries could lead to loss of lives, environmental dama...

Currently, the design of the manufacturing control systems must assure reconfiguration flexibility for agile reaction to unexpected occurrences in components in the shop-floor control level or business processes in enterprise and factory control levels. Other requirement of these control systems is ensuring collaboration and integration of heteroge...

This paper presents a method to design a reconfigurable distributed manufacturing control systems which integrates heterogeneous technologies of facilities that are geographically distributed. Due to the heterogeneity of the environment, the method explores concepts of different techniques and takes the best practices from each one. Mechanisms for...

The emerging Industry 4.0 concept, also called fourth industrial revolution and understood as smart factory, is based on integration of both Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems. In smart factory, these two concepts are converging to the Internet of Services, which uses the cloud-based manufacturing for creating, publishing, and sharing th...

This paper presents the modeling of fault diagnosis mechanisms extending a method to design reconfigurable and distributed manufacturing control system. The method combines different techniques: service-oriented architecture, holonic and multi-agent system, production flow schema and input-output placetransition Petri net. An application example de...

This paper proposes a control architecture for distributed production systems using a virtual cellular manufacturing and agents based approach, as a natural way for the control of production systems. Actual production system controllers do not have the ability to respond effectively to the system dynamics and complexity. Because of that, much of th...

This paper explores characteristics of virtual cellular manufacturing systems, of scheduling and dispatching techniques for real time requirements and genetic algorithms for assures a high level of routing flexibility and efficiency in tasks programming for (NDJSP – non-deterministic dynamic job shop problem) systems. It introduces a programming me...

The APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) systems are widely used by companies; however, the traditional APS systems cannot deal with problems whose the due date is a strong restriction. The problem derives from the way companies use their scheduling heuristics. This paper addresses this problem by using the concept of time windows with the constr...

Control systems for conventional manufacturing systems are designed based on division in scope and control problems organized into hierarchical levels such as, enterprise control, factory control, and shop-floor control. However, currently manufacturing systems must assure integration and reconfiguration flexibility characteristics, i.e., a reconfi...

Resumo A pesquisa realizada tem como enfoque analisar o comportamento e posteriormente elaborar programas de controle para Sistemas a Eventos Discretos utilizando uma metodologia adequada baseada em modelos formais. Para tanto, foi utilizado o Sistema Modular de Produção-MPS-fornecido pela empresa FESTO. Por meio de uma abordagem baseada em rede de...

The inherent complexity of critical production systems, coupled with policies to preserve people´s safety and health, environmental management, and the facilities themselves, and stricter laws regarding the occurrence of accidents, are the motivation to the design of Safety Control Systems that leads the mitigation functionality. According to exper...

Due to the high complexity of the actual Productive Systems, the current industrial standards, and the possible negative impacts on the human being, on the environment and on equipment in case of faults, the development of control solutions that are both secure and stable – as some systems have to operate nonstop – is much demanded. In this context...

The manufacturing control system must immediately react to a variation in product, process specification, fault occurrence, changes in the resources functional capabilities, and other operational factors. Besides, to gain competitive advantage, distributed productive systems must work in cooperation with each other. To effectively integrate these h...

In a context of increasing competition, rising of expectation for product innovations, and need to satisfy different consumer needs, the concept of global supply chain management (GSCM) emerges as a strategy to more efficiently coordinate the geographically dispersed activities of production systems that generally involve several manufacturing proc...

Control systems for conventional manufacturing systems are designed based on division in scope and control problems organized into hierarchical levels such as, enterprise control, factory control, and shop-floor control. However, currently manufacturing systems must assure integration and reconfiguration flexibility characteristics, i.e., a reconfi...

The constant evolution of demands of society for the industrial production affects directly in the companies requirements. It is increasingly necessary for companies to reduce the use of non-recyclable resources and polluting emissions, beyond ensuring high quality, low cost and customization of products and services. This set of requirements is mo...

Manufacturing control systems must quickly react to variations of product, process specifications, fault occurrence, changes in the resources functional capabilities, and other operational demands. Besides, to gain competitive advantages, dispersed manufacturing systems must cooperate with each other. The combination of holonic control system and s...

The inherent complexity of critical production systems, coupled with policies to preserve people´s safety and health, environmental management, and the facilities themselves, and stricter laws regarding the occurrence of accidents, are the motivation to the design of Safety Control Systems that leads the mitigation functionality. According to exper...

The inherent complexity of critical production systems, coupled with policies to preserve peoplés safety and health, environmental management, and the facilities themselves, and stricter laws regarding the occurrence of accidents, are the motivation to the design of Safety Control Systems that leads the mitigation functionality. According to expert...

In general, the control systems for conventional manufacturing systems are organized into hierarchical layers such as, enterprise control, factory control, and shop floor control. In an approach based on division in scope and breadth of the problems these levels are designed to act with relative autonomy. However, currently manufacturing systems mu...