Innovations in Industrial Engineering III

This book reports on innovations and engineering achievements of industrial relevance, with a special emphasis on  industrial engineering developments aimed at improving the quality of processes and products in the context of a sustainable economy. It gathers peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International Conference “Innovation in Engineering”, ICIE 2024, held on June 26-28, 2024, in Povoação, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal. All in all, this third volume of a three-volume set, provides engineering researchers and professionals with a timely snapshot of technologies and strategies that should help shaping different industrial sectors to improve production efficiency, industrial sustainability, and human well-being.

Chapter 1. Design and Implementation of a Supplier Kanban System in the Automotive Sector: An Empirical Study.- Chapter 2. System dynamics in manufacturing processes  modelling and analysis.- Chapter 3. Underwater Inspection: Design Issues and Experimental Activity with a Rover.- Chapter 4. Leveraging the ISO 23247 Framework for the Development of Digital Twins of Stacker Cranes.- Chapter 5. Digital Product Passport Implementation Based on Hyperledger Fabric Technology.- Chapter 6. Product Mix Optimization of a Footwear Company using Activity-Based Costing Information.- Chapter 7. Measurements of geometric quantities in an automatic line for the verification of large-size rings and rims.- Chapter 8. Model-Based Agile Design Approach: Toward Innovation in Product-Service Systems.- Chapter 9. Study of the impact of the Shingo Model and the EFQM Model on Occupational Safety in Portuguese Organizations.- Chapter 10. Advancing Resilience in Manufacturing Strategy: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Directions.- Chapter 11. Industry 4.0 Integrated with Different Management Paradigms: A Bibliometric Analysis.- Chapter 12. Experimental Analysis of Pose Estimation Based on ArUco Markers.- Chapter 13. Analysis and Improvement of Setup Times at a Metalworking Company.- Chapter 14. Transformative Roles of Robotics in Rehabilitation and Education.- Chapter 15. Development of layout proposals for the future textile processing section of a textile company.- Chapter 16. Machine Learning algorithms for quality control problem.- Chapter 17. Integration of Environment, Social and Governance practices into project management through Automation.- Chapter 18. The Future of Entrepreneurship: Bridging the Innovation Skills Gap through Digital Learning.- Chapter 19. Inquiring Minds: The Transformative Influence of Qualitative Methods in Engineering Education.- Chapter 20. Psychological and pedagogical evaluation of the learning outcomes of engineering students in times of pandemic transformations.- etc...