Goran Putnik

• University of Minho

Machine learning is usually considered a branch of artificial intelligence that enables machines (computers) to learn from data and improve their performance without explicit programming. The paper presents a review of research on meta-learning, also called double and semi-double-loop machine learning, based manufacturing. The paper provides a sele...

This paper emphasizes the need to broaden organizational perspectives through Open X, which promotes sharing and collaboration over selfishness and competition, instead of that industrial intellectual protection through patents can divert resources essential for the growth of organizations. Faced with new realities, organizations need different man...

This paper presents a semantic analysis of a collection of articles on maintenance policies through the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) methodology. The research comprises two periods. The first, from 2000 and 2018, aims to reveal the habits of organizational maintenance policies before the second period, from 2019 to 2023, and verify the differe...

and similar. Although not so new, Open approach could be considered as an emerging approach to organization and management of products and systems development, production and use and tо emerging business models, comparing to the "classical" organizational and business models. Open could be characterized shortly as a non-proprietary and royalty free...

Group decision-making has captured the attention of researchers for decades but due to its importance and complexity further explorations and studies, namely for its application in industrial engineering continue to be needed in the current digital age. In this paper a group decision making approach is put forward for evaluating and selecting maint...

The paper referred shortly to applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) in manufacturing. The paper is structured in three parts: the first part provides a general review of AI/ML in manufacturing, the second part presents the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) as one of the main constructs of manufacturing systems within the I...

An intelligent system for spatial visual feedback is presented, that enables the robot's autonomy for a range of robotic assembly tasks, in particular for arc-welding, in an unstructured and ‘fixtureless’ environment. The robot's autonomy is empowered by embedded inductive inference based machine learning module which learns a welded object's struc...

This article comparedidentified models in the literature that incorporates sustainability in project management, with an integrated model used as reference, mapping their points of similarity. For this purpose, bibliographic research of 90 articles from the Web of Science and Scopus databases was carried out, which address the themes of sustainabil...

In the last few years, the industrial, scientific, and technological fields have been subject to a revolutionary process of digitalization and automation called Industry 4.0. Its implementation has been successful mainly in the economic field of sustainability, while the environmental field has been gaining more attention from researchers recently....

This article compared identified models in the literature that incorporates sustainability in project management, with an integrated model used as reference, mapping their points of similarity. For this purpose, bibliographic research of 90 articles from the Web of Science and Scopus databases was carried out, which address the themes of sustainabi...

Collaboration in the digitalization era is of utmost importance, as it enables sustainable development in the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) context. In this paper, a general view over different approaches and application scenarios of collaboration, along with I4.0-oriented technology that has been put forward is explored, based on a systematic literature rev...

The recent trend in collaborative distributed manufacturing scheduling (CDMS) has gained significant importance in extended, networked, and virtual manufacturing environments due to its adaptability and integration potential. In a distributed manufacturing environment, CDMS can occur within a single factory or across multiple companies in a dynamic...

Nowadays, global resources management intersects with collaboration and Industry 4.0 paradigms, namely for collaboratively managing cyber-physical systems. Only organizations that cooperate with their business partners, along with their suppliers and remaining stakeholders, including their clients, will be able to permit and promote the much-needed...

Collaborative Manufacturing Scheduling (CMS) is not yet a properly explored decision making practice, although its potential for being currently explored, in the digital era, by combining efforts among a set of entities, either persons or machines, to jointly cooperate for solving some more or less complex scheduling problem, namely occurring in jo...

Collaborative engineering is not a new subject but it assumes a new importance in the Industry 4.0 (I4.0). There are other concepts frequently mismatched with collaboration. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to put forward a collaborative engineering concept, along its sub concepts, supported by an extensive systematic literature review. A...

Collaborative networks and systems (CNS) have received much attention in recent decades to reach a competitive advantage [...]

Meta-models enable to introduce dynamism and flexibility while trying to develop tools for solving a widened set of problems in a given application domain, which is considered nowadays to be of upmost importance, in the current Industry 4.0 era, and its underlying Cyber Physical Production Systems. In this paper a meta-model about flow shop schedul...

Data Science is a tool for organizations to accelerate the development of innovative solutions through collaboration among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), leading to the Industry 4.0 approach. Data is essential in decision-making. Many organizations can't access timely relevant information because they don't own it or there is a lack of collab...

Industry 4.0 represents the current trend in the manufacturing industry, where manufacturing scheduling is performed within a smart environment. This paper discusses manufacturing scheduling approaches in the Industry 4.0 context, based on results obtained through a systematic literature review. The reviewed approaches are related to dynamic, distr...

Social Network-based Education (SNE) and Education 3.0 are new education paradigms which addresses emergent challenges in education. Education on Design is one of the subjects that need to adapt to these changes. In this paper, SNE methodology and Education 3.0 as an educational paradigm are presented, as well as their application in the CAD module...

This work shows a case study of the application of data digitalization in visual inspections on smartphone manufacturing, from the context of the need for inspection carried out by humans, in order to analyze its impacts. The impacts of visual stress and fatigue in employees, the technological techniques that can be used through computer vision and...

Manufacturers of Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems in Brazil are experiencing several challenges to increase competitiveness of their operations, considering the world class companies which are continuously improving their products and processes to deliver better quality products with lower costs. To achieve this target, new opportun...

This article seeks to describe the social representations of Brazilians about the term Governance System (GS). The data were collected through online questionnaires answered by 665 social actors from Brazil. The data analysis used the Social Representation Theory (SRT), operationalized by the techniques of free evocation of words and the Four House...

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This paper aims to analyze the negative perception about the ability to generate value from a Governance System (GS). A model that would explain the reason for the less positive perception regarding the ability to generate value from the GS of the organizations, from the analysis of the relationship between the constructs Hybridism, GS, Accountabil...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are fundamental in Industry 4.0 and manufacturing research communities, and research and technologies organizations (RTO) are keen to implement CPS laboratories. Due to the strong investment in these laboratories, it is unfordable the investment in CPS laboratories. This paper proposes a CPS architecture based on Open D...

Distributed manufacturing systems have become consensus, particularly networked manufacturing systems (NMS) owing to its flexible and adaptable nature in response to customized requirements. Highlighting of functions in NMS and their integration with recent key enabling technologies i.e., Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Internet of Thing...

The design process is unrepeatable, dynamic, fluid, and dependent on the context mood. It is part of an ever-changing social system. The purpose of design is to create, to bring out solutions to regulate the increasing complexity of social, economic, environmental, and cultural systems. Blending science and art, the designer chooses from several hy...

The paper addresses the question: what is engineering? We intuitively know engineering applications such as manufacturing, production, industry, management, business. The answer is not consensual because it is not easy. Furthermore, the ontological question brings us to a second question. What distinguishes engineering from other areas? It is the c...

The motivation for this paper is the observation that in many of nowadays university curricula for mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing studies, apparently the classical model and criteria for a formulation of education on engineering is seemingly more and more disappearing. One fierce manifestation of this process is teaching students that ma...

Learning Factory could be considered as an instrument for effective learning and training of advanced manufacturing concepts, through true connection between universities and companies. A supporting infrastructure, i.e. an implementation architecture, should be designed in such way to strengthen this objectives. This paper presents a contribution t...

The paper presents the ICARUS Pedagogical Framework, or Reference model to address development of innovative pedagogical approaches to overcome the actual effectiveness problems in development, acquisition and application of the required knowledge and skills for the concepts related to Industry 4.0. The aim of the Pedagogical Framework is minimum t...

The development of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) in the 2010s has paved the way to a digital transformation, fuelled by increased connectivity and intelligence in the manufacturing industry. This technological driven transformation has led to fast paced developments in a number of engineering fields in the past 10 years. Within hi...

Industry 4.0 was massively disseminated as an expression of the existence of the fourth industrial revolution, although we found no evidence that Industry 4.0 is synonymous with the fourth industrial revolution. Fermi’s paradox shows that the lack of evidence does not confirm the non-existence of a phenomenon, and any confirmation is limited to a c...

Cyber-Physical Production Systems require scalable simulations to make decisions in close to real-time when facing highly dynamic environments. When the environment changes, new simulations assist the production planning by running scheduling algorithms. We studied the impact of technological implementation decisions on the execution performance of...

The evolution of society is related to industrial revolutions. Revolutions are catalytic, disruptive, and transformative phenomena that change and interact with several systems. Industrial revolutions depend on changes in technological paradigms and require the participation of people. They are not only created with individual political intentions...

Industry 4.0 emerges as a tool to help organizations manage. Often identified with the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems, Industry 4.0 appears as a solution to many of the difficulties plaguing manufacturing. The history of management theories, e.g. by Taylor, Fayol, or Simon, shows that deterministic solutions do not ensure the permane...

Although digitization in the manufacturing industry has been going on for some years, the recent COVID-19 pandemic helped reveal a number of bottlenecks and challenges that still need to be overcome. Joint ongoing research by a number of European Universities aimed at developing a systematic training framework on Industry 4.0 happened to be perform...

A contribution to the definition of Collaborative Engineering (ColE), together with the definition itself, are presented. The need for a more rigorous definition is due to the fact that the Collaborative Engineering (ColE) definitions in literature within the so-called “classical” discourse in fact could be reduced to the Concurrent Engineering (CE...

A review of organisational forms for implementation and operation of Collaborative Engineering following the Collaborative Engineering organizational and management models based on complexity and semiotics frameworks, is presented. These forms are mainly the forms of communities, which are intentionally created for the purpose of Collaborative engi...

This paper aims to present a concept test for an alternative refrigerant gas leak detection method, to be used in air conditioning manufacturing processes, in order to increase confidence in retaining products with gas leak in the factory, minimizing human interference in the test. To analyse the proposed solution, experimentation cycles were condu...

The paper presents two original and innovative contributions: 1) the model of machine learning (ML) based approach for predictive maintenance in manufacturing system based on machine status indications only, and 2) semi-Double-loop machine learning based intelligent Cyber-Physical System (I-CPS) architecture as a higher-level environment for ML bas...

Complex systems consist of multiple machines that are designed with a certain extent of redundancy to control any unanticipated events. The productivity of complex systems is highly affected by unexpected simultaneous machine failures due to overrunning of machines, improper maintenance, and natural characteristics. We proposed realistic configurat...

Integrated process planning and scheduling in networked manufacturing systems plays a crucial role nowadays and in the forthcoming context of Industry 4.0 to enable effective and efficient decisions, and to improve the business market, based on collaboration, along with computer-based distributed manufacturing and management functions. In this pape...

In many discourses, popular as well as scientific, it is suggested that the “massive” use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Machine Learning (ML), and reaching the point of “singularity” through so-called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and Artificial Super-Intelligence (ASI), will completely exclude humans from decision making, res...

Sustainability in project management is an emerging and evolving field of study, in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Sustainability in project management is immersed in many goals and targets, and is also echoed in many other goals and targets. In this sense, the goal of this research was to analyse how to incorporate sustainability iss...

Research on flexible unit systems (FUS) with the context of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis have remarkably progressed in recent times, being now reinforced in the current Industry 4.0 era with the increased focus on integration of distributed and digitalized systems. In the existing literature, most of the work focused on the in...

Due to pressing demand for the quality of care and to maximize the patient satisfaction, traditional scheduling may not cater the needs of patient’s accessibility for mitigating the patient tardiness and social effects. This paper addresses, patient appointment scheduling problem (PASP) in a radiology department in southern India, as a case study....

Online shopping is nowadays is a highly frequent action but there are several critical factors that have to be considered for enabling websites and platforms to be able to offer all necessary requisites for guaranteeing user friendly, secure and also enjoyable shopping experiences to clients, offering them exactly what they expect to buy, and quick...

The development in the past decade of Industry 4.0 technologies has brought many new opportunities to manufacturers. The increased digitization of manufacturing operations has led to new modes of production and product development. This digitization has also increased the quantity of sensorial data which is easily available and which can be used to...

The selection of the resources system (SRS) is an important element in the integration/project of Agile/Virtual Enterprises (A/V E) because its performance is dependent of this selection, and even of its creation. However, it remains a difficult matter to solve because is still a very complex and uncertain problem. We propose that using Value Analy...

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) represents a significant step in the processes transformation in practically every industry, where the smart concept emerges in autonomous decisions and cyber-physical systems based production systems [1]. The role played by the usually referred technological pillars of I4.0 (such as internet of things (IoT), horizontal and vert...

Production scheduling can be affected by many disturbances in the manufacturing system, and consequently, the feasible schedules previously defined became obsolete. Emerging of new technologies associated with Industry 4.0, such as Cyber-Physical Production Systems, as a paradigm of implementation of control and support in decision making, should e...

In many discourses, popular, but in scientific as well, it is suggested that the "massive" use of Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning, and reaching the point of ‘singularity’ through so-called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and Artificial Super-Intelligence (ASI), will completely exclude humans from decision making, resultin...

In this paper a scheduling meta-model is proposed for supporting hybrid collaboration, regarding machine-machine and human-machine scheduling interactions, based on a scheduling ontology. The utilization of the proposed scheduling ontology-based meta-model is illustrated through an example, which is further analysed, and some main features and adva...

Social network analysis (SNA) is a widely studied research topic, which has been increasingly applied for solving different kinds of problems, including industrial manufacturing ones. This paper focuses on the application of SNA to an industrial plant layout problem. The study aims at analysing the importance of using SNA techniques to study the im...

Social network analysis (SNA) is a widely studied research topic, which has been increasingly applied for solving different kinds of problems, including industrial manufacturing ones. This paper focuses on the application of SNA to an industrial plant layout problem. The study aims at analysing the importance of using SNA techniques to study the im...

As the wide use of various smart sensors in the manufacturing environment, traditional factories have been upgraded and transformed into an intelligent level. Smart manufacturing factory thus has been enabled by some advanced technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT) which could facilitate production operations and decision-makings on the one...

Various companies choose to outsource the delivery of part of their services, so as not to deviate from its core business and improve the service level. This approach leads to a new type of organizations, so-called networked and virtual enterprises, where possibly a great number of companies work together without having direct contact but through a...

Decision support visualization tools provide insights for solving problems by displaying data in an interactive, graphical format. Such tools can be effective for supporting decision-makers in finding new opportunities and in measuring decision outcomes. In this study, was used a visualization tool capable of handling multivariate time series for s...

Abstract: This research evaluates IRCA registered auditors’ perspectives of the added value of ISO 9001:2015 to the organizations that adopt it and are certified accordingly, bringing a more independent perspective than previous studies based on quality managers or consultants' views. Supported by a worldwide survey among IRCA registered auditors a...

Value analysis methodology uses a structured and methodical job plan contemplating several steps to ensure success in its application. This paper intends to perspective the potential of value analysis application, namely in the furniture industry. To draw conclusions of this potential a case study was developed at an IKEA factory in Portugal. To ch...

Goal: The main goal of this research is to analyse the behaviour of a set of ten lot-sizing methods applied to different application scenarios, within the context of more traditional MRP-based manufacturing environments and on JIT/ Kanbans oriented ones. Design/Methodology/Approach: After an extended literature review, a quantitative research meth...

Organizations, to achieve their mission and create value, need to measure and improve their business and process performance. The application of sound methodologies and tools can lead to an enhanced implementation of business strategies (Bititci et al., 2015), and improved performance (Neely 2005; Franco-Santos, Lucianetti and Bourne 2012). However...

Nowadays, Lean Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Sustainability are important concerns for the companies and in a general way for the society, principally, the influence of the two production philosophies, Lean Manufacturing and Industry 4.0, in the three main pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental, and social. According to the literatur...

Complex systems in a work cell often consist of multiple units to process the manufacturingfunctions effectively for achieving the desired objectives. All manufacturing work cells are familiar with manyunforeseeable events, for instance machine down time and scheduled maintenance. In fact, every configurationnaturally exhibits some level of redunda...

This work presents an investigation on Wire Electric Discharge Machining (WEDM) of Pure Titanium (Grade-2). Pure Titanium and its alloys are the most suitable metallic materials for biomedical applications. In health care, they are used for implant devices like knee and hip implants, fixing materials for bones like nails and screws, and in the oral...

Technology adoption play significant role for good healthcare services. It is very important to understand and identify the requirements and perceptions of hospital employees for the implementation of technology in their work place. This study determines the impact of performance expectancy, effort expectancy and social influence on behavioural int...

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...

The domain of Production Planning and Control, or in a broader sence Production Management has been deserving a special and increasing attention by the companies, which intend to continuously achieve better results through continuous improvement, which also fits in the context of Industry 4.0. Companies tend to implement management systems with the...

Technological development and pressure to meet customer requirements through high productivity and low costs forces companies to be extremely flexible and efficient. For this purpose, many organizations have been adopting continuous improvement strategy which promotes constant insertion of small incremental improvements and better results in regard...

Learning material co-creation infrastructure implies adoption of new features such as Education 3.0 paradigm, social network-based organization of the education process, procedures/protocols for sharing elements of teaching material, advanced information and communication technologies, collaborative management involving both professors and students...

Experiential learning model for acquiring skills on CAD Systems interoperability, using the Social Networked-based Education model and the Learning Factory platform, is presented. The experiential learning leads students to acquire knowledge on CAD Systems interoperability through the principle of “Project-first, just-in-time principles”. The exper...

Open Design (OD) is characterized as fast-growing community-based generative process, that is supported in a digital repository or platform, in order to develop a specific topic area or field. Many examples of OD are available nowadays, from software (probably the most common) to hardware, and from science and technology to business. One of the mos...

One of the major obstacles for cities to achieve sustainability is the problems related to urban freight transport. Freight transport operations in urban areas are usually carried out by private companies (freight operators and carriers), using public infrastructure, governed by regulations and implemented and monitored by public authorities. In mo...

A contribution to the definitions of Sequential Engineering (SeqE), Simultaneous Engineering (SE), Concurrent Engineering (CE), and Collaborative Engineering (ColE) is presented. The need for contribution to better clarification of the referred engineering and design concepts, and approaches, is because there are identified many problems in definit...