DEMARTINI , Melissa

The aim of this PhD thesis is to investigate the relevance of flexibility and sustainability within the smart manufacturing environment and understand if they could be adopted as emerging competitive dimensions and help firms to take decisions and delivering value.

Sustainable manufacturing is becoming increasingly important. This requires sustainable industrial system different to today's global industry with different business models, creating different products and services requiring new strategies, frameworks, and tools. The evolution towards a 'sustainable' industrial production systems requires a...

The world and society are now constantly evolving through scenarios of global change and development having direct and indirect impact on manufacturing companies. The related manufacturing value chains require different assessment and evaluation of strategic dimensions such as Quality, Innovation, Flexibility and Sustainability. In order to...

In recent years there has been appreciable academic activity in manufacturing value creation resulting in that the ability to create value is based on the competence to make decisions and implement strategies; even though this evidence it is still difficult to understand where the company's weak points are located so value modeling approaching...

Environmental regulations and sustainable developments are forcing industries to assess, optimize and improve their processes to minimize costs and increase the efficiency of industrial sustainability dimension. This effect is more evident in the food industries due to the high impact that this sector has on environmental and economical...

Manufacturing sustainability is related to complex adaptive systems crossing different layers; sustainability issues, and their potential resolutions, are transversal to supply and shop-floor levels, often including interaction between them; in addition, multiple actors across the supply chain interact displaying non-linear and non-rational...