Dorota Stadnicka

• Ph.D., D.Sc., Eng.
• Professor (Associate) at Rzeszów University of Technology

Practical Learning of Artificial Intelligence on the Edge of Industry 4.0 (PLANET4) is a cross-disciplinary initiative funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ program that embodies the triple helix model of collaboration between academia, industry, and administration. It aims to bridge the gap between academic teaching and practical ap...

It is widely acknowledged that the expenses associated with substandard quality constitute a significant portion of a company's overall costs. Consequently, organizations adopt quality management systems and implement corrective and preventive measures to reduce these expenses. Within these implementations, Poka-Yoke techniques are notably prominen...

The workplace inclusion of individuals with cognitive disabilities, or neurodiversity, is a multifaceted and intricate phenomenon that necessitates a comprehensive understanding of the factors that either facilitate or hinder it. Tools that can aid in achieving this understanding are the fuzzy cognitive maps, graphical representations of the mental...

In the era of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), a significant challenge hindering digital transformation is the lack of mutual understanding between academia—particularly within engineering and computer science—and the industrial sector, especially small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This gap can result in industries missing out on the potential benefits...

The concept of sustainable development (SD) is gaining more recognition and the chosen SD goals are being implemented in enterprises. Until recently, organizations focused mainly on the economic aspect. Currently enterprises, when determining strategy, performing risk assessment and mapping processes using the VSM (Value Stream Mapping) tool, are i...

The dynamically changing environment forces companies to introduce changes in production processes and the need for employees to adapt quickly to new tasks. Therefore, it is expected to implement solutions to support employees. The system that will manage the work on a manufacturing line should work in real time to support the ongoing activities an...

Launched during the pandemic, the EU-funded JANUS project aimed to ensure the continuity of student workshops at universities using a virtual reality (VR) robotics laboratory. With the return to normality, the project has been redesigned to capitalise on the positive outcomes of the experience. The VR lab provides safe and unrestricted access to th...

Today, one of the biggest challenges for digital transformation in the Industry 4.0 paradigm is the lack of mutual understanding between the academic and the industrial world. On the one hand, the industry fails to apply new technologies and innovations from scientific research. At the same time, academics struggle to find and focus on real-world a...

People with disabilities can be very valuable employees if their work is well organized and planned. However, because such employees have certain limits and additional rights, the organization and planning are more complex. This article aims to show how the employment of people with disabilities (PWDS) could influence the operation of a manufacturi...

The Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by United Nations in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will modulate the efforts toward a better world considering the pillars of economic, social, and environmental sustainability. The Industry 4.0 (I4.0) framework is emerging from the introduction of several advancements in a way that...

Industry 4.0 corresponds to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, resulting from technological innovation and research multidisciplinary advances. Researchers aim to contribute to the digital transformation of the manufacturing ecosystem both in theory and mainly in practice by identifying the real problems that the industry faces. Researchers focus on...

Computer simulations are applied in enterprises for different purposes. They are used to support decision making at different levels of management. System Dynamics (SD) method is successfully used to model and simulate complex systems (including enterprises and manufacturing lines), but its applications are limited mostly to the policy and strategy...

Universities play an essential role in preparing human resources for the industry of the future. By providing the proper knowledge, they can ensure that graduates will be able to adapt to the ever-changing industrial sector. However, to achieve this, the courses provided by academia must cover the current and future industrial needs by considering...

This article presents the results of research with the main goal of identifying possible applications of edge computing (EC) in industry. This study used the methodology of systematic literature review and text mining analysis. The main findings showed that the primary goal of EC is to reduce the time required to transfer large amounts of data. Wit...

This article presents the results of research with the main goal of identifying possible applications of edge computing (EC) in industry. This study used the methodology of systematic literature review and text mining analysis. The main findings showed that the primary goal of EC is to reduce the time required to transfer large amounts of data. Wit...

Knowledge and skills in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Edge Computing (EC) are more and more important for industry. Therefore, it is crucial to know what current students and future employees can offer to the industry. University students develop their knowledge and skills to support the industry in implem...

The assessment of labour efficiency is important for manufacturing companies. Even though employees are a very important resource of the organization, at the same time they constitute a cost for the company. So, it is vital to make the most of their operational readiness. In this study, the possibilities of using the overall labour effectiveness in...

The importance of knowledge management (KM) is rising in every mature company as well as it is widely discussed in the literature. Many papers were published in order to discuss KM in different contexts. The aim of this work is to review and analyze literature which is connected to KM. The authors treat KM as a supporting method for sustainable dev...

In the last decade, a shift toward Sustainable Development (SD) in engineering has started in the educational and occupational framework. Therefore, the need to rethink the professional figures of an engineer has become a necessity. Unfortunately, neither a formal methodology to define a standard engineer achetype nor procedural methods to evaluate...

This is a preprint, for the final version please refer to: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355492969_Toward_a_sustainable_educational_engineer_archetype_through_Industry_40

The emerging of the fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0 (I4.0), from the advancement in several technologies is viewed not only to promote economic growth, but also to enable a greener future. The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations for sustainable development sets out clear goals for the industry to foster the economy, while pre...

The paper presents an application of lean analyses and computer simulations (CSs) in a case study of a manufacturing line that is used to manufacture complex products. The complexity of the manufacturing process (MP) is increased by realizing the MPs of components in parallel. Moreover, there is a necessity of cooperation with external service prov...

Task assignment methods usually rely on the fixed mean processing times of operations with the intent of balancing the workload assigned to operators or workstations in the production line. This assignment usually neglects the variability of operator processing times. In this work, a methodology in which the time in which an operator executes a tas...

The work describes various problems that can arise in the planning, organization and operation of manufacturing processes. The consequences for the companies resulting from the problems are deliberated together with the proposed remedies. It is important to teach students what kind of problems they may face in their future work and how they can ana...

Engineers need to know a wide spectrum of modern techniques and tools to be able to apply them in their professional work. Modeling and simulation are examples of the activities that are commonly undertaken by modern engineers, especially in the context of Industry 4.0 concept. Therefore, it is important that in the process of engineers’ education...

Industry 4.0 stresses the importance of considering production automation as an integrated and collaborative teamwork process between human workers and intelligent machines and tools. Collaborative robotics is a recent field of study for industrial automation. Although fenceless robot systems are available, the actual implementation of collaborativ...

Considering logistics management plays a very important role in costs generating. There are different kinds of costs. One significant kind of costs is connected to fuel consumption. Logistic companies try to implement different solutions in order to decrease this cost. This work presents the implementation of a six sigma project to identify importa...

In the article, the legal risk of the researcher in the case of a scientific experiment in the machining of magnesium alloys was determined. The use of magnesium alloys in industry and identification of the problems associated with machining were presented. The issues concerning legal liability in the experiment and provisions ensuring a greater sc...

Objective of Tiphys project is building an Open Networked Platform for the learning of Industry 4.0 themes. The project will create a Virtual Reality (VR) platform, where users will be able to design and create a VR based environment for training and simulating industrial processes but they will be able to study and select among a set of models in...

People play a central role in intelligent manufacturing systems because of two reasons: their knowledge is indispensable to create and improve intelligent manufacturing systems; and their motivation is very important to identify and solve causes of the problems which may occur in order to prevent them in the future. Therefore, adequate learning met...

Industry of the future bases on people knowledge, creativeness and motivations. Although, the number of workers needed in factories of the future decreases, the requirements concerning employees skills have been increasing. The knowledge of employees determines the factory system quality and efficiency. The motivation of people determines continuou...

The human-robot collaboration (HRC) in industrial assembly cells leads to great benefits by combining the flexibility of human worker with the accuracy and strength of robot. On the other hand, collaborative works between such different operators can generate risks and faults unknown in current industrial processes, either manual or automatic. To f...

Companies have to meet clients' requirements with regard to product quality and delivery time. In order to survive and have possibilities to develop, companies should do it at minimal cost. The lean manufacturing implementation approach together with lean tools, such as value stream mapping (VSM), is an efficient way for waste identification and el...

Measuring systems used for alternative control are the basis of the kitchen fronts acceptance. The assessment of such products is difficult. On the basis of the performed analysis, it can be said that different operators make different decisions that result in different problems in a case study manufacturing company. In the work, the authors propos...

A maintenance process of forklifts presented in this work is realized by a service organization which delivers services for several companies that use forklifts. In the work, the fuzzy logic was implemented to assess the risk of failures for different groups of forklifts. The results of the analysis are to be taken into consideration by the service...

A maintenance process of medical equipment is very important because people’s life or the quality of people’s life depend on such equipment. The maintenance of some equipment can be only done by specialists. Nevertheless, some actions can be undertaken by the less specialized personnel. In this paper, on the basis of the data concerning complaints,...

Maintenance management is responsible for the effectiveness of automated manufacturing systems. The allocation of a certain number of employees to the servicing sector of a manufacturing system ensures that an enterprise’s throughput is at a satisfactory level but of course, there is the ‘cost’ factor to be taken into account. The present paper con...

The paper deals with problems concerning a maintenance process realized by maintenance service companies. In the paper the concept of wastes identification in such companies is presented. Then, a case study company is analysed. The company designs, manufactures, implements and performs maintenance processes of installations used in products control...

Purpose: The calculation of quotations has been proven to be an extremely challenging matter in customized manufacturing requirements. There are significant wastages, which are attributed to activities related to the quotation preparation process (QPP) and their influence on an offer of delivery time to a customer. Hence, the purpose of this paper...

Companies have to meet clients’ requirements and, at the same time, be cost effective to survive. In order to minimize costs, companies implement lean manufacturing concept and lean tools such as the value stream mapping (VSM) to identify and then eliminate waste. VSM allows a static analysis therefore the authors of this work propose integration o...

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is employed for the analysis of manufacturing processes. The VSM analysis leads to improve the process through the reduction of non-value added steps. The optimization is often verified by computer simulation (CS) before actual implementation in the factory. The two approaches imply a different underlying conceptual model...

In the paper two kind of simulation methods, i.e. system dynamics simulation (SDS) and discrete event simulation (DES), are proposed to simulate orders processing in a manufacturing enterprise. SDS model is applied to simulate non stationary (dynamic) behaviour of the system. This dynamic behaviour emerges from lack of automation (process variabili...

The Lean Manufacturing (LM) philosophy is applied in different kinds of companies and their branches. LM uses many methods. Several enterprises, in order to minimize costs, use poor quality materials or overload workers with work. They do not realize other possibilities for the improvement of enterprise effectiveness. They are also troubled by the...

Clients expect a short lead-time from aircraft maintenance services. In order to minimize the lead time, it is vital to analyse service processes related to maintenance tasks and identify existing problems such as bottleneck tasks and wastes related to different tasks. The main purpose of the manuscript is to demonstrate the use of the VSM-based (v...

Several solutions have been proposed for the workload balancing in manual assembly lines with workers’ task assignment. Facing the case study of a sheet metal assembly line of transport pallets, the paper addresses the problem of the dynamic task assignment. The walking path minimization is considered in the problem, together with task sequence con...

One way to reduce costs in companies is decreasing inventory levels and improving the value flow. In the present case study a production line where automotive door seals are manufactured was analyzed. First, an analysis with the use of value stream mapping was undertaken in order to identify processes and a material flow. The current state and futu...

In order to subsist companies have to meet customers’ requirements and expectations. Particularly nowadays, when they have to compete on the global market. Companies have to focus on some issues which are most important, and these are: production or service costs reduction, decreasing the lead time and increasing quality. All these issues are direc...

Currently, companies must change and evolve to keep pace with the changing environment, customers’ requirements and to be better than their competitors. The changes result from the need to adapt the products to new customers’ requirements as well as to maintain competitive prices of their products. Therefore, companies should be flexible to guarant...

This paper proposes a novel method for the structuring of the knowledge of a service process in order to be processed by lightweight declarative computing infrastructures. Through the identification of self-similarities in the process, the flow of the structured information and the sequence of activities performed in the process are easily implemen...

The machinery maintenance plays a significant role achieving the final quality characteristics of the manufactured products. As the concept of quality covers tangible (e.g. dimensional tolerances) and intangible (e.g. lead-time), the assessment of maintenance suppliers is vital in maintaining the quality of a manufactured product at an anticipated...

The aircraft maintenance processes play an important role in a safe operation of an aircraft. Maintenance services organizations take responsibility for the maintenance process and approve the airworthiness of an aircraft after undertaking the maintenance activities. International law determines the quality of aircraft maintenance processes by sett...

Performance-enhancing efforts in the manufacturing industry have centred on ‘lean’ principles and philosophies since the early 1970s. Lean principles, philosophies, tools and methods have also been significantly deployed to enhance performance in service processes within the manufacturing industry, as well as the process industry (e.g. inspection,...

This manuscript describes a Value Stream Mapping (VSM) based generic methodology that enables the visualisation, performance assessment (PA) and waste reduction (WR) in a Complex Products' Manufacturing Process (CPMP). The VSM, along with Kanban, enables modelling and implementing an order-driven or pull manufacturing process (MP) together with jus...

Significant investments in productivity improvement approaches over the past two decades have been embedded in ‘lean’ principles and philosophies within the manufacturing sector. Although the manufacturing sector has focused on offering integrated bundles of physical goods and services via product-service systems with lean principles and philosophi...

Mistake proofing solutions are industrial design procedures aimed at reducing the risk of errors during production. Such procedures are widespread in any industrial sector as they allow the risk prevention by not expensive proactive actions at the level of a process design or setting. The study proposes a useful classification of the Poka-Yoke in o...

The lean concept has been employed in the construction industry to reduce time waste and increase productivity. Past research reveals that lean philosophy is applicable for increasing productivity in the prefabrication of reinforced concrete elements by lowering the inventory, reducing time waste, etc. This study focuses on the identification of no...

Setups are indispensable to a manufacturing process and they often significantly influence the lead time on an order. Simultaneously, the time spent on setup is wasted from the client’s point of view because the activities performed don’t add any value for the client. Companies, being aware of this fact, implement actions in order to reduce the set...

(Paper available on: http://www.ijqr.net/journal/v9-n1/1.pdf) Continuous improvement is indispensable for ensuring the company’s development and its survival on the constantly changing global market. Continuous improvement is particularly important in the quality and production management systems. A company should deliver a product compliant with a...

(Paper available on: http://mper.org/mper/images/archiwum/2015/nr1/6-stadnicka.pdf) The purpose of this paper is to propose the methodology for the setup analysis, which can be implemented mainly in small and medium enterprises which are not convinced to implement the setups development. The methodology was developed after the research which determ...

(Paper available on: http://www.ein.org.pl/sites/default/files/2015-01-15.pdf) Maintaining a proper productivity and efficiency level of a technical infrastructure of an enterprise requires, above all, the use of appropriate managing methods and tools as well as an appropriate organization of services responsible for their management. Using a varie...

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a commonly assessed method employed for the analysis of manufacturing processes. The principal asset of the method is its ability to identify wastes. Adopting lean manufacturing and lean management rules it is possible to eliminate such wastes. In the paper the case study of a manufacturing process of sleeves is presen...

(Stadnicka D., Antonelli D.: Implementation of augmented reality in welding processes. Technologia i Automatyzacja Montażu. Vol. 4, 2014, pp. 56-60. ) Welding processes are special processes and special attention should be put on them when we are talking about the quality assurance problems. Standard quality management systems based on ISO standard...

The maintenance of mechanical systems plays a significant role in production and manufacturing settings. In this context, prioritization of machinery is vital for minimizing the economic burden due to higher maintenance cost, loss of production, potential damage to health, safety and environment. Different production and/or manufacturing firms use...

(Paper available on: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753513002531) Continuous type production and discrete type manufacturing systems face challenges in optimizing the maintenance related costs. The risk based maintenance approach has been carried out within the continuous type production systems to classify equipment in produ...

(Paper available on: http://www.ein.org.pl/2014-01-18) The activities realized within the technical infrastructure supervision are particularly important for large enterprises. It’s commonly believed that in large enterprises there is a wide range of tasks realized within the technical infrastructure supervision. The studies done so far indicate on...

(Paper available on: http://waset.org/publications/16928/lean-in-large-enterprises-study-results) The idea of Lean Manufacturing has been known for 20 years. In Polish enterprises its first implementation took place in the automotive industry in the 90s. Many companies, in order to reduce costs, use lower quality materials or overload employees wi...

(Paper available on: http://waset.org/publications/17349/tpm-in-large-enterprises-study-results) Having regard to the necessity of maintaining the technical infrastructure in a proper condition that ensures production continuity, companies decide to implement modern methods of technological machines park management. These methods include TPM, RCM a...

Streszczenie: W niniejszej pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań, które dotyczyły identyfikacji działań realizowanych w obszarze zarządzania infrastrukturą techniczną ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem organizacji oraz realizacji czynności prewencyjnych realizowanych przez służby utrzymania ruchu. Badania prowadzone były w wybranych dużych przedsiębiorstwach...

Konkurencyjny rynek i postępująca globalizacja wy-muszają na przedsiębiorstwach ciągłe cięcia kosztów. Ceny wyrobów, które kształtuje rynek, dają małe szanse na zyski przedsiębiorstwom niegospodarnym i takim, które nie poszukują oszczędności. Klient, wybierając wyrób, jest skłonny za niego zapłacić tyle, ile wyrób jest dla niego wart. Według Philip...

Streszczenie: W artykule przedstawiono wykorzystanie systemu komputerowego NND Integrum do zarządzania jakością w Katedrze Technologii Maszyn i Organizacji Produkcji Politechniki Rzeszowskiej. Katedra od ponad dziesięciu lat funkcjonuje w certyfikowanym systemie zarządzania jakością w oparciu o normę PN-EN ISO 9001. W 2010 roku zdecydowano się na w...