Advanced Production Systems

Synthetic program:

Parte I – Introduction

1. Advanced and Sustainable Manufacturing Strategies 

1.1.       Sustainable Development (social, environamental and economic megatrends

1.2.       The importance of Manufacturing in the regional, national and global economy

1.3.       Manufacturing as key enabler of the Europe’s societal challenges

 

Parte II – Competitive Advanced Manufacturing 

2. Advanced Manufacturing: Automation in the Process industry 

2.1.       Control

2.2.       Typologies of control architecture (monitoring, direct digital control, supervisory control)

3. Advanced Manufacturing: Automation in the Discrete Manufacturing industry

3.1.       Design and management of Advanced Manufacturing Systems (AMS)

3.2.       Real time control systems. Loading and dispatching

3.3.       Soft computing techniques for the design and management of manufacturing systems

3.4.       Industrial robots

 

Parte III – Sustainable Manufacturing

4. BOL-Energy- and Resource-efficient Manufacturing

4.1.       Green and Customer-focused Manufacturing

4.1.1.     Green Product Development

4.1.2.     Sustainable Mass customisation, Highly personalised production, Servitization in Manufacturing

4.2.       Factory life-cycle concepts. Integrated design, modeling and multi-level simulation of a Energy Efficient Factory (i.e. machine energy states, energy value-stream mapping, Technical Building Services and building facilities)

4.3.       Energy assessment: tools, audits, certification, KPIs,

4.4.       Best available technologies (BATs)

4.5.       Strategies for Energy optimisation along the whole value chain (i.e. factories clustering, Industrial symbiosis, new business models, etc.)

4.6.       Smart Manufacturing for Sustainability. ICT for Manufacturing 

5. BOL-Human-Centric and social sustainable manufacturing

5.1.       Factory context and workers for human-centric workplaces. Skill and competence knowledge workers. Worker-centered and skill-oriented production planning and operation. Cognitive and symbiotic automation.

5.2.       Design and co-evolution of the factory in relationships with social context (stakeholders such as local communities, other factories, policy makers, and training centers)

5.3.       Assessment and practices of Social Sustainability

6. End-of-Life Cycle Product Management

6.1.       Strategies and Technolgies for EOL in the different sector: Prevent, Re-use (re-manufucturing, dis-assembly, etc.), re-cycling, energy recovery, disposal

6.2.       Tools and assessment methodologies (regulatory, social, environmental and economic dimensions) for the identification of the best strategy/technology. Qualitative and quantitative Decision Support Systems for Design and Planning. Performance measurments

6.3.       Case studies in the automotive, aerospace, machine tools and electronics (including white goods) sectors

6.4.       European and Italian Regulations

6.5.       Product Life cycle knowledge for remanufacturing

6.6.       Rare and critical material management (i.e. Urban mining)