Industrial Production Management Research Articles

Utilization of banana peel as functional ingredient in product development

The agro-food industry’s exponential growth of plant waste production is a critical global issue, taking into account its storage, disposal, environmental impact and potential health risks. However, by-product utilization of agricultural waste for the retrieval of added-value compounds offers new avenues for industrial production and waste management. The waste of banana primarily the peels are potentially a useful sources for substitution of value added product such as dietary fibers, bioactive components, including carotenoids, polyphenols, pro-vitamins as well as essential minerals. This project describes the types and the composition of raw banana peel wastes and the bioactive components of the peel, the processing methods and the possible application of banana peel flour (BPF). Of particular interest, the proximate analysis and physicochemical properties of potential BPF and the properties of the by-product are discussed. These informations were then used to identify types of food that is suitable for production industry. Then, the utilization of banana peel flour in beef burger patties, waffle ice cream cones and yellow noodles were chosen. The formulation of BPF were prepared in three different formulations: 2%, 4% and 6% for beef burger patties, 10%, 20% and 30% for banana peel noodle and 5%, 10% and 20% for waffle cone respectively. Overall, BPF substitutions in these food products have affected and improved high cooking quality, nutritional values, colour, texture and sensory characteristics relative to control.

Indicators of Workers’ Satisfaction with Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives in Construction Firms

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is gradually becoming a universal phenomenon among industrialists in developing countries. Industrialists are progressively accepting it as a way of life in organizational development. Therefore, this research aimed at carrying out an exploratory study of the phenomenon, pointing out the relationship between CSR and employee job satisfaction. The study draws strength from fundamental underlying theories and relevant past work. Cohran’s and Slovin’s formulas were utilized to derive a population frame of 400. The authors used a sample size of 200 respondents. The essence of data collection guarantees that the research objectives can be appropriately organized and successfully achieved. A structured questionnaire calibrated in Likert Scale 1-5 was used as the data collection instrument. Content analysis was applied to process the collated questionnaires for consistency. The data were processed with the SPSS statistical tool using the descriptive statistics component. The scope of application of the research results includes Human resources management, Environmental policymaker, Industrial production management, industrial relation, and personnel management.

Histórias Fotografadas.

Histories of life and the recovery of personal images bring us to Charles Baudelaire’s reflection on the artist as “a man of the crowd and the world. The association made by the French poet refers to the way of thinking of the “present” time as an essential material for recording and immortalizing a particular time and cultural history. “The world’s man and” are related to the common man and the daily heroisms not found in the pages - and screens - of a mass industry that annihilates singularities. Enrapturated by this conception one can think of everyday history and present history. History of those who are alienated from it.The project “Photographed History, Shared History” is a blog-album of the daily life of residents of Cotia, centered on history fragments of photographs chosen and narrated by the central characters of the moment captured by them. The blog contains part of texts transcribed and “transcriados” by the Communication and Expression students of the Business Management and Industrial Production Management courses at Fatec Cotia. With this exercise, not only these residents but their interviewers became memory builders. Sherazades provoking the desire to hear, read and see the characters that - once again taking Baudelaire - allow a portrait of Modernity.Coinciding with this proposal, “Memories that do not fade - despite the Alzheimer”, photographic exhibition that brings together memories of people from the city with the disease.This communication intends to present these projects, analyzing these memories and the importance of narrating.

Product design-time optimization using a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm

Production management is a function including a process of planning, directing, controlling, and organizing ongoing activities to convert inputs into the product. Industrial production management systems allow users to manage all aspects of mass processing in a centralized and decentralized environment. They focus on the overall process of production and distribution of goods and services. The purpose of this paper is to continuously improve the flow of materials so that the quality of the product and the final services are increased, and at the same time, the cost for the consumer is reduced. Since a crucial step in the process of managing the production is the product design phase, therefore, there are always many efforts to optimize and reduce product design time. In this paper, a new algorithm for scheduling design tasks has been suggested to minimize design time in production management systems using a hybrid algorithm. Considering that the scheduling of design tasks and allocating them to engineers concerning prioritizing tasks, skill levels, and preferences of designers is an NP-hard issue, many evolutionary and meta-heuristic approaches to solve this problem have been proposed. Therefore, the offered technique in this paper utilizes a Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for task allocation to designers. The proposed method is simulated via a MATLAB programming tool. The results of the experiments on a set of real-world data and random data indicate that the method improves the time of product design. Considering the different design processes for different kinds of products to improve the performance of designers is not done in this research.

Building the strategy for innovative development of industrial enterprises based on network planning methods

The article substantiates the need to adjust corporate development strategies, business models and production methods, caused by the influence of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). Cluster and network structures are capable of ensuring timely digital business transformation. For effective integration into network interaction, it is necessary to form corporate strategies for innovative development based on an effective combination of strategic and operational planning using network methods. The article provides a comparative analysis of the critical path method, the method of evaluation and analysis of programs and projects, the method of graphical assessment and analysis, and the cyclical alternative network model. As a result of the study of network planning methods, it was revealed that the GERT-network modelling allows taking into account the risk factors and uncertainties, and the cyclical alternative network model allows to manage the level of risk and uncertainty. The two-level model of planning and management of industrial production proposed in the article, as well as the developed algorithm for solving the problem of interdepartmental production planning, can be used as the basis for the formation of a strategy for the innovative development of industrial enterprises.

Adaptive Imaging of Sound Source Based on Total Variation Prior and a Subspace Iteration Integrated Variational Bayesian Method

Sound source visualization has been widely used in many scenarios such as aerospace, industrial production, and urban management. Sound source localization technology plays an essential role in the realization of sound source visualization. The imaging results and calculation cost are the primary considerations in the problem of sound source localization. This article proposes a subspace iteration integrated variational Bayesian (SVB) method to realize adaptive imaging of different sound sources. First, the proposed variational Bayesian (VB) method is based on total variation (TV) prior to balance the sparsity and smoothness of the imaging results. Second, the subspace optimization method in the probability measure space is integrated into the proposed SVB method to solve the involved ill-posed inverse problem. The proposed SVB method can significantly improve the calculation speed, especially for large-scale inverse problems. Finally, the speed and robustness of the proposed SVB method can be demonstrated according to the extensive results of simulation and experimental validation.

Multi-agent systems to improve efficiency in steelworks

A multi-agent system consists of several computational entities capable of autonomous actions, called agents, which communicate with each other, and have the ability to coordinate their actions and to cooperate. Multi-agent systems received a great interest and attention over time, as they can be seen as a key enabling technology for complex applications, where distributed and processing of data, autonomy, and high degree of interactions in dynamic environments are required at the same time. Therefore, in view of current and future developments of the digitalization of industrial production cycles promoted by Industry 4.0, multi-agent systems are foreseen to play an increasing role for industrial production management and optimization. Because of barriers represented by large presence of legacy systems, in the steel sector agent-based technology is not widely applied yet, and multi-agent systems applications are very few. On the other hand, steel manufacturing industries are complex and dynamic systems whose production processes held a strategic role in the global economy. During last decades, the steel sector has undergone relevant transformations, especially through the massive digitalization and the innovation introduced by Industry 4.0. A further evolution is foreseen in the incoming years to improve the sustainability of the production cycle by improving energy and resource efficiency. Therefore, steel industries must face several challenges on the path toward the factory of the future. In such context multi-agent systems, through their intrinsic properties, such as autonomy, social abilities, reactivity, proactivity, and mobility, can overcome existing drawbacks and barriers, by increasing flexibility, improving resources efficiency, handling production operations, reacting to unpredicted events, optimizing production processes, and supporting legacy systems. In this paper, some applications of multi-agent systems in steel sector are presented to show the advantages and opportunities of agent-based technology.

The Washington Consensus, liberal ideas and terms of the military-technological policy

Subject. In the twentieth century, the most developed countries formed a permanent military economy represented by military-industrial complexes, which began to perform almost a system-forming role in national economies, acting as the basis for ensuring national security, and being an independent military and political force. The United States is pursuing a pronounced militaristic policy, has almost begun to unleash a new "cold war" against Russia and to unwind the arms race, on the one hand, trying to exhaust the enemy's economy, on the other hand, to reindustrialize its own economy, relying on the military-industrial complex. Objectives. We examine the evolution, main features and operational distinctions of the military-industrial complex of the United States and that of the Russian Federation, revealing sources of their military-technological and military-economic advancement in comparison with other countries. Methods. The study uses military-economic analysis, scientific and methodological apparatus of modern institutionalism. Results. Regulating the national economy and constant monitoring of budget financing contribute to the rise of military production, especially in the context of austerity and crisis phenomena, which, in particular, justifies the irrelevance of institutionalists' conclusions about increasing transaction costs and intensifying centralization in the industrial production management with respect to to the military-industrial complex. Conclusions. Proving to be much more efficient, the domestic military-industrial complex, without having such access to finance as the U.S. military monopolies, should certainly evolve and progress, strengthening the coordination, manageability, planning, maximum cost reduction, increasing labor productivity, and implementing an internal quality system with the active involvement of the State and its resources.

La vigilancia científica como apoyo a la gestión educativa. Un análisis bibliométrico de la formación en Gestión de la Producción Industrial

The teaching of Industrial Production Management GPI, for its initials in Spanish, brings great challenges both for teachers and for the training centers where it is oriented, due to the advances in this line of knowledge, in addition to the large number of publications generated in this field . Therefore, through an innovative methodology based on bibliometric analysis and using software such as (Bibliometrix de R), VOSviewer, Sci2 and Gephi, a review of the scientific literature in this field is presented. Within the main results we found that 16,709 documents have been published in Scopus and 4,741 in WOS. So far, 2019 has been the year with the highest production on this subject. The most representative countries are the United States and Germany. The institutions with the highest number of publications are the Technical University of Aachen and the Polytechnic of Milano. The most prolific authors are Danil Zakoldaev and Igor Olegovich Zharinov with 46 publications; in Colombia the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Universidad de la Costa are the most representative. Four trends in scientific production in GPI were found. They are: Lean manufacturing, Industries 4.0, Digital Transformation and Sustainable Manufacturing. This research provides teachers with an overview of the past, present and future of the Industrial production management. It will allow them to improve their educational practice, in addition to making contributions to curricula, teacher training and updating laboratories where GPI related topics are taught.

Environmental Education and Management: Exclusive, Inclusive, and Indigenous Doctrines

Environmental education of the population is an important part of environmental management. Environmental education is necessary not only for entities directly involved in the processes of nature protection (environmental performance) and in processes harmful to nature (use and processing of resources and waste management of industrial technical and agricultural production and domestic consumption of production products). It is necessary for all people, including as subjects included in different types of relationships and in various systems as direct participants in environmental protection measures and/or victims of natural disasters, as stakeholders and as representatives of indigenous cultures, etc. In Russia an exclusive doctrine has been established nature conservation: the leading role was played by states that determine the forms of protection and exploitation of natural resources, the development and compliance with environmental standards, and the requirements for environmental education of the population. Other model is in addition to the system of national parks and other protected areas, indigenous community protected areas are formed and developed. Thus, not only the doctrine of an isolating type (care of nature is the concern of the state, not of man) is popular here, but also the indigenous, participatory doctrine (“live on your land - study it and take care of it”). This model assumes a systemic, multi-level and multicomponent interaction of subjects of various types, relatively clearer than in the first case, ideas about personal, group and organizational responsibility in the field of nature protection. In the intermediate phase of the transition from one doctrine to another, there is an inclusive model. The basic principle is everyone cares about everything. In this case, the search for productive and effective management systems and the development of the ecological culture of individuals, groups and organizations is usually observed.

Physicochemical structure of chitin in the developing stages of black soldier fly

Black soldier fly can convert organic wastes into their own functional biological macromolecules i.e. chitin that has great potential for biotechnological, biomedical and cosmetic application. The variation in the physiochemical structure of chitin was proved for several insects during metamorphosis stages whereas, it remains unknown for black soldier fly (BSF), a recognized resource insect for industrial production and organic waste management. The current work noted results on how the chitin matrix can undergo physicochemical changes during the developmental phases (larvae, prepupa, puparium, and adults) of BSF. Chitin content was determined around 3.6%, 3.1%, 14.1% and 2.9%, respectively. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis and x-ray diffraction analysis showed that chitin from BSF different stages was all α-chitin with similar thermal stability. The chitin crystalline index increased gradually with development from larvae to adult, 33.09%, 35.14%, 68.44% and 87.92%, respectively. Moreover, it was observed by scan electron microscopy that surface morphology characteristics of chitin vary significantly in developmental phases. These results confirmed that Hermetia illucens is promising for converting organic wastes into valuable biopolymers i.e. chitin and its physiochemical properties in various developmental stages help to determine the related biomedical, biotechnological, cosmetic and functional food utilization potential.

УДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ ФОРМУВАННЯ ВИРОБНИЧИХ СТРАТЕГІЙ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА

The article is substantiated the necessity to develop and implement industrial enterprise production strategies and proved that the development of a correct and clear business entity activity strategy is extremely relevant in modern conditions, since taking into account industry specificity, new production methods, use of innovative technologies would improve the production management system activities. Approaches to strategic management and stages of its implementation are investigated. The concept of industrial production management strategy has been improved, which should take into account the possibility of modification in accordance with the change of external and internal environment. In doing so, an entity may use several strategies in its operations that may be closely interrelated and rapidly adapt to any anticipated or unpredictable market changes. Particular attention is paid to flexibility is an important property which creates an opportunity to quickly adjust and change production facilities in order to expand the line of goods, at the sametime taking into consideration the impact of internal and external factors, each of which has a specific effect on the ability of an enterprise to adapt. It is stated that the formation of the strategy of production activity of the enterprise should take into account the flexibility of production activity and the likelihood of its further development. When developing a production strategy, the scope of activities, available resources, demand for their products, capacity and market segment, consumers, etc. should be taken into account. The implementation of the strategy should lead to the economic, social, environmental and social challenges of the industry. A set of basic production strategies is presented and characterized, in particular, such as: reorientation of production; stabilization of production; full specialization; uniqueness of production; diversification; limited specialization of the production process; modification of production; intensification; innovative transformations of production (production technologies). Conditional and specific types of strategies that can be selected by enterprises to develop and achieve their maximum level of profitability, optimization of production and resources are systematized.

Quality as an object of modern industrial production management

Quality as an object of modern industrial production management

Empirical Study on Economic Analysis of Construction of Green Prefabricated Concrete Structure System

At present, the socialist economy with Chinese characteristics continues to develop and the process of urbanization is rapidly advancing. The construction industry plays an important role in the development of the national economy and the process of urbanization. However, the traditional construction industry has high energy consumption and large pollution, which has brought huge pressure on the ecological environment and is not conducive to the sustainable development of the industry. The transformation and upgrading of the construction industry are an inevitable trend in the development of the industry. Prefabricated building, as a new structure, is a typical green building. This article introduces the development status of prefabricated buildings, and analyzes the influencing factors of their construction costs. The article uses survey method, literature research method, comparative research method, and empirical research method to introduce the development status of prefabricated buildings, and analyzes the factors affecting its construction costs, and concludes that national policies, technologies, and management affect prefabricated building costs. Based on this, we propose countermeasures and suggestions: strengthen macro-control, improve laws and regulations and standards; focus on training professional and technical personnel, improve the level of industry production management; scientific arrangement, strengthen management, improve industrial operations, and conduct empirical analysis.

An Assay On The Impact of Industry 4.0 in The Operations Area

Recent technological innovations in the means of production, product development and distribution materials are promoting big changes in the productive sector. This set of innovations is called Industry 4.0. The purpose of this article is to study the main aspects of Industry 4.0 and analyze their impact on the means of production of manufactured goods and the supply chain. Therefore, it uses bibliographic references relating to the fourth industrial revolution (SCHWAB, 2009), Industry 4.0 (KOCH, 2014) and production management (Slack, 2009). Considerations achieved in this study will form the basis for future research on the developments of new technologies in society.

Research on 3D Visualization Design of Industrial Production Management Software

Affected by the wave of Industry 4.0, the Internet and IoT technologies are becoming more mature. However, when selecting industrial production management software, many companies still use traditional software management methods. This article describes a 3D visualization upgrade of enterprise implementation management software that describes and demonstrates the important role of 3D visualization throughout the production management process. In addition, this article studies the role of 3D visualization in the management software interface from the perspective of academic research, so as to achieve the purpose of improving the efficiency and operational efficiency of workshop management. And as a reference for industrial production enterprises in 3D visual design.

Scheduling in Production, Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 Systems by Optimal Control: Fundamentals, State-of-the-Art, and Applications

Specific scheduling problems with complex hybrid logical and terminal constraints, non-stationarity in process execution as well as complex interrelations between dynamics in process design, capacity utilization, and machine setups require further investigation and the application of a broad range of methodical approaches. One of these approaches is optimal control. The objectives of this survey are twofold. The first objective is to derive major contributions, application areas, limitations, as well as research and application recommendations for the future regarding optimal control applications to scheduling. The second objective is to explain control engineering models in terms of industrial engineering and production management. In this paper, we provided a survey on the applications of optimal control to scheduling in production, supply chain, and Industry 4.0 systems with a focus on the deterministic maximum principle. Optimal control approaches take a different perspective as mathematical programming methods which represent schedules as trajectories. We consider optimal control models, performance analysis qualitative methods, and computational methods for optimal control. We provide a brief historic overview and clarify major mathematical fundamentals whereby the control engineering terms are brought into correspondence with industrial engineering and management. The survey allowed the group-ing of models with only terminal constraints with application to master production scheduling, models with hybrid terminal-logical constraints with applications to short term job and flow shop scheduling, and hybrid structural-terminal-logical constraints with applications to customized assembly systems such as Industry 4.0. Computational algorithms in state, control, and conjunctive variable spaces are discussed. Finally, we derive major contributions, application areas of different control methods, and their limitations. This paper also delineates research and application recommendations for future research.

INDUSTRY 5.0 AS INTEGRATION OF THE INTERNET OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS

The methodology of creating systems of "Industry 5.0" class with the use of artificial intelligence technologies is proposed. The methodology is based on multi-agent methods of creating knowledge bases and is suitable for the development of design and control systems for digital intelligent industries. An Integrated structure of the Internet of Knowledge and the Internet of Things has been developed. The life cycle of mechanical engineering products is analyzed and the methods of application of the Internet of Knowledge and the Internet of Things at various stages of this cycle are proposed. The functional decomposition of the main stages of the life cycle is given. The conceptual foundations of the Internet of Knowledge are given. Multi-agent methods of knowledge base creation have been developed. The meta-ontology of engineering agents is proposed. The principles of construction of multi-agent systems for semiautomatic design of products are described. The description of the capabilities of intelligent programming of processing systems for CNC machining in terms of the formation of machining trajectory and transition areas is given. The possibilities of intelligent systems of design and regulation of technological processes are described. It is proposed to use the IDEF3 standard to create metamodels of technological processes and modified route maps for the formation of knowledge bases. The description of the intellectual system of operative management of industrial production is given. The General functional model of operation of an industrial enterprise operation is considered. The functional blocks of the system are described.

The Russian industry: the problems and the further development (ending)

This article describes the various approaches to the analysis of the current situation and the justification of the further development prospects of the Russian industry represented at the round table on June 21,2018 inthe State Duma of Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on a subject: «Legislative providing industrial policy of the Russian Federation: technologies, innovations, investments». Attention had also been drawn to issues requiring the globalization, the industrial development inequality of the countries of the world and the Russian regions, the dependences of economic growth on the state of the knowledge economy, the industrial and monetary and credit policy interrelations, the changes in the system of the state regulation of the Russian industry, the business moods, the technological updating results of the industrial enterprises, the features of the investment projects financing in Russia and in industrialized countries, the prospects of the introduction in Russia of the digital technologies of the industrial production management. Among offers of the situation significant improvement there are: the providing for the economic relations participants of the equal competitive opportunities; the completion of the Federal law «About Industrial Policy in the Russian Federation», the involvement in the economy of free money, the updating on the basis of the problems settlement with the financing of the enterprises of the fixed assets, the selective development of the import substitution, the distribution of the positive experience of the successful industrial companies. The author points to a need of the involvement in the discussion and the other important questions concerning the comprehensive analysis of the reasons of the serious lag of the Russian enterprises from the enterprises of the industrialized countries generating the negative consequences; the labor productivity at the industrial enterprises of the different countries of the world and factors of its growth; the influences of the developed bureaucracy, the administrative barriers, the corruption on a situation in the various industries, the applications of the concept of the economical production, the energy productivity and a resource conservation, etc.

Fermentation trip: amazing microbes, amazing metabolisms

Fermentation has been applied to many areas of human life, including industrial production, sewage treatment, and environment management. By understanding the process and mechanism of fermentation, more comprehensive and profound cognition of the fermentation may be established to lay a foundation for our further research. In this review, we present a brief summary of recent research about fermentation and microorganisms in different territories, including foods, environment, and human health. According to the growth characteristics of different stages of microorganisms, we introduced a series of metabolic changes, fermentation mechanism, and regulation methods and how the enzymes were transported out of the cell. With further understanding and utilization of microorganisms, food can produce better flavor, nutrition, and functional metabolites through fermentation. Fermentation is also used in other industries, such as wastewater and garbage disposal, environment, and soil management. The human gut flora, in particular, has begun to receive more attention. The profound influence of microorganism on human health cannot to be underestimated. It has become a hot research area in recent years. We can get the metabolites we want by controlling the rate of fermentation and regulate the direction of fermentation. As one of the important components of modern biotechnology, fermentation engineering has been widely used in areas including food, pharmaceutical, energy, chemical industries, and environmental protection. The development of genetic engineering has brought new vitality to fermentation engineering. The application of modernization, automation and artificial intelligence technology also opens up new space for fermentation engineering. In addition, research on the understanding and regulation of metabolic mechanism has further developed the fermentation function of microorganisms.