Production Engineering and Management

It is our pleasure to introduce the 8th edition of the International Conference on Production Engineering and anagement (PEM), an event that is the result of the joint effort of the OWL University of Applied Sciences and the University of Trieste. The conference has been established as an annual meeting under the Double Degree Master Program “Production Engineering and Management” by the two partner universities. This year the conference is hosted at the university campus in Lemgo, Germany. The main goal of the conference is to offer students, researchers and professionals in Germany, Italy and abroad, an opportunity to meet and exchange information, discuss experiences, specific practices and technical solutions for planning, design, and management of manufacturing and service systems and processes. As always, the conference is a platform aimed at presenting research projects, introducing young academics to the tradition of symposiums and promoting the exchange of ideas between the industry and the academy. This year’s special focus is on Supply Chain Design and Management in the context of Industry 4.0, which are currently major topics of discussion among experts and professionals. In fact, the features and problems of Industry 4.0 have been widely discussed in the last editions of the PEM conference, in which sustainability and efficiency also emerged as key factors. With the further study and development of Direct Digital Manufacturing technologies in connection with new Management Practices and Supply Chain Designs, the 8th edition of the PEM conference aims to offer new and interesting scientific contributions. The conference program includes 25 speeches organized in seven sessions. Two are specifically dedicated to “Direct Digital Manufacturing in the context of Industry 4.0”. The other sessions are covering areas of great interest and importance to the participants of the conference, which are related to the main focus: “Supply Chai n Design and Management”, “Industrial Engineering and Lean Management”, “Wood Processing Technologies and Furniture Production”, and “Management Practices and Methodologies”. The proceedings of the conference include the articles submitted and accepted after a careful double-blind refereeing process

Factories of the Future

Engineering; Industrial engineering; Production engineerin

A Systematic Consideration of the Human and Technical Elements in the Implementation of Lean Manufacturing Cells

Some manufacturing companies are successful, while many others fail in their efforts to implement lean philosophies and practices into their manufacturing operations. Although the technical process flows and cell designs meet the standards and criteria specified in the literature, these companies most often do not fully consider the impact of the human element in the management of change. It is hypothesized that an approach that combines the implementation of lean manufacturing cells with technical, human and lean practices considerations will result in improved cell performance. This research investigates how to create and implement such a system and evaluate its impact on a manufacturer’s cell performance. A questionnaire is developed, based on literature and industry research, to collect employee perceptions regarding the importance rating and implementation levels of the technical, human and lean practices within a manufacturing cell. Manufacturing cell performance data is collected and analyzed in concert with the questionnaire to prove the hypothesis. The approach is piloted at an aero engine manufacturer and the results are provided. The findings indicate that as a foundation, manufacturing cells must achieve a certain level of implementation in the technical areas of machines, methods, and materials. With all else equal, manufacturing cells that achieve higher implementation levels of the human and lean practices, also achieve higher cell performance

The 1st Advanced Manufacturing Student Conference (AMSC21) Chemnitz, Germany 15–16 July 2021

The Advanced Manufacturing Student Conference (AMSC) represents an educational format designed to foster the acquisition and application of skills related to Research Methods in Engineering Sciences. Participating students are required to write and submit a conference paper and are given the opportunity to present their findings at the conference. The AMSC provides a tremendous opportunity for participants to practice critical skills associated with scientific publication. Conference Proceedings of the conference will benefit readers by providing updates on critical topics and recent progress in the advanced manufacturing engineering and technologies and, at the same time, will aid the transfer of valuable knowledge to the next generation of academics and practitioners. *** The first AMSC Conference Proceeding (AMSC21) addressed the following topics: Advances in “classical” Manufacturing Technologies, Technology and Application of Additive Manufacturing, Digitalization of Industrial Production (Industry 4.0), Advances in the field of Cyber-Physical Systems, Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies throughout the entire product Life Cycle, Human-machine-environment interaction and Management and life cycle assessment.:- Advances in “classical” Manufacturing Technologies - Technology and Application of Additive Manufacturing - Digitalization of Industrial Production (Industry 4.0) - Advances in the field of Cyber-Physical Systems - Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies throughout the entire product Life Cycle - Human-machine-environment interaction - Management and life cycle assessmen

3D-in-2D Displays for ATC.

This paper reports on the efforts and accomplishments of the 3D-in-2D Displays for ATC project at the end of Year 1. We describe the invention of 10 novel 3D/2D visualisations that were mostly implemented in the Augmented Reality ARToolkit. These prototype implementations of visualisation and interaction elements can be viewed on the accompanying video. We have identified six candidate design concepts which we will further research and develop. These designs correspond with the early feasibility studies stage of maturity as defined by the NASA Technology Readiness Level framework. We developed the Combination Display Framework from a review of the literature, and used it for analysing display designs in terms of display technique used and how they are combined. The insights we gained from this framework then guided our inventions and the human-centered innovation process we use to iteratively invent. Our designs are based on an understanding of user work practices. We also developed a simple ATC simulator that we used for rapid experimentation and evaluation of design ideas. We expect that if this project continues, the effort in Year 2 and 3 will be focus on maturing the concepts and employment in a operational laboratory settings

Factories of the Future

Engineering; Industrial engineering; Production engineerin

Innovative analytical methods for the study of low and high weight molecules involved in diseases.

Personalized or precision medicine is an emerging approach to the treatment and prevention of disease, which takes into account the individual variability of genes, environment and lifestyles of each person. High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (HRMS) coupled with Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) plays a fundamental role in characterizing and quantifying proteins and metabolites involved in the disease. The proteomic and metabolomic approaches allow the global identification, not guided by a priori hypothesis, of thousands of proteins and hundreds of metabolites present in a biological fluid and the evaluation of how these can vary in the presence of a specific disease compared to a non-pathological condition, allowing to characterize and discriminate between different study groups. In the first part PhD project has been studied the proteomic profile of autoinflammatory diseases to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic diseases. Here, we analyzed the proteomic signature of unstimulated and stimulated monocytes of patients with FMF, TRAPS and MKD, describing the dysregulated intracellular pathways associated with each condition for the identification of possible biomarkers and possible novel therapeutic targets. The objective of the second part of the project is to build, optimize and share spectral MSMS with Accurate Mass Retention Time (AMRT) database libraries, using different metabolic standards (MSMLS, IROA Technologies), involved in key biological processes, to develop robust identification and quantitative methods because the compound identification process being often challenging and requiring a high degree of confidence

Proceedings of the 9th Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD) international conference 2021 (ASCAAD 2021): architecture in the age of disruptive technologies: transformation and challenges.

The ASCAAD 2021 conference theme is Architecture in the age of disruptive technologies: transformation and challenges. The theme addresses the gradual shift in computational design from prototypical morphogenetic-centered associations in the architectural discourse. This imminent shift of focus is increasingly stirring a debate in the architectural community and is provoking a much needed critical questioning of the role of computation in architecture as a sole embodiment and enactment of technical dimensions, into one that rather deliberately pursues and embraces the humanities as an ultimate aspiration