The course is focused on quality and sustainability in production facilities accordingly to technology development, design and management. Industry 4.0 paradigm will be the base of the course with internal and external perspectives on the main performance dimensions such as productivity, quality, reliability, flexibility as well as social, economical, and environmental aspects. Interaction with smart safety topics and cyber security will be also provided.
The course is focused on the study of quality and sustainability in production units and in the technology development, design and applications. After an initial classification of the general problem, the course will review in depth issues related to industrial production of a product used as an example and integrity control methodologies. The course topics involve activities in the areas of: innovative technologies in industrial and transports uses, environmental aspects in production, new materials development and processes management for sustainability.
The course addresses the need for engineers to develop solutions which have the potential to address global production challenges by providing products, services and processes taking into account local capabilities and constraints to achieve an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable society in a technological perspective. Quality trend and customization are increasing and rapidly adapting. Resources required for manufacturing and use of such products are limited and not evenly distributed in the world. Locally available resources, local capabilities as well as local constraints have to be drivers for product- and process innovations with respect to the entire life cycle. The course aims to provide an overview of gloabal trends, challenges, and opportunities impacting on internal factory, sustainable supply chains, logistics, and other external factors. The methodologies and tools presented aim to supporting sustainable manufacturing and transportation practices to assist manufacturing companies reduce inputs, waste and costs, improve efficiencies, increase productive performance, achieve greater competitiveness. The course encourages an holistic system perspective integrating social, environmental, economical, and technological factors.
Power point slides presented during class
Class assignments
Articles reading on selected industrial cases
Topic 1 – Cultural awareness – Global warming: The wider context and the scale of challenge – From Global principles to Local implementation – Toward a sustainable industrial system – Some valuable Eco-Factory cases Topic 2 – Business Models for Industrial Sustainability: implications for engineers Topic 3 – Industrial Symbiosis: the technological aspects of ... Topic 4 – Eco-design and Life Cycle Assessment: from material substitution to delivering functions Topic 5 – Production quality: yesterday, today, tomorrow Topic 6 – Industrial Sustainability toolbox: basic and practical tools for engineers Topic 7 – Sustainable transportation: implications and contraints of closed loop supply chains and reverse logistics Topic 8 – Global Manufacturing evolution and Factories of the Future
J. Randers, 2052, Edizioni Ambiente, 2012 Pauli G., Blue Economy, Report to Club of Rome, 2010 (ITA or ENG version)
McDonough, Braungart M, Cradle to cradle, Northpoint press, 2002 Hawken, P., Lovins, A.B,., Lovins, L.H., Natural capitalism: the next industrial revolution. 2nd Ed., Routledge, 2005 Graedel, T.E., Allenby, B.R., Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering, PEARSON, 2010 C. Anderson, Makers: The new industrial revolution, Rizzoli Etas, 2013
Ricevimento: Da concordare settimanalmente col docente via mail.
CHIARA MANDOLFINO (Presidente)
ROBERTO REVETRIA (Presidente)
http://www.politecnica.unige.it/index.php/orario-e-calendario-delle-lezioni
Assignment + oral examination
Evalution criteria:
Assignment given to a workgroup. Discussion of the assignment for each single student. The assignment weights for 40% of the course mark. Class attendance and participation 20%. Oral discussion 40%.
