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Arias Portela, Claudia Yohana
Minimization of Ergonomic Risk in Autovend: Case Study—Bread Company
The Use of Agent-Based Models Boosted by Digital Twins in the Supply Chain: A Literature Review
2021
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Arias Portela, Claudia Yohana
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Godelieve Wellens, Ann
This chapter applies a mapping process and occupational ergonomic analysis to detect the ergonomic interventions required in a distribution process for automatic vending machines. Data collection was achieved by direct measurements such as physical effort, heart and metabolic rate, and observational measurements as OWAS postural risks. These variables were interrelated to observe the correlation between the level of discomfort and cardiovascular effort, and between posture and heart rate. The methodology is developed with data collected from two distribution centers. The results suggest that most work-related accidents occur due to a lack of standardization, process documentation, and good practices. Detected problems regarding occupational profiles, physical and metabolic load above the permissible limits, and postural risks allowed to propose interventions in the distribution system, which directly improve the employee’s life quality.
2019
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Orozco-Romero, Areli
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Arias Portela, Claudia Yohana
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Marmolejo Saucedo, José Antonio
Supply chain management has become an essential and integral part of business, it allows to reach out company’s success and customer satisfaction because it has the power to boost customer service, reduce operating costs and improve the financial standing of a company by keeping and improving competitive advantages. In the current market with a fiercer competition, shorter product life cycles, changes in technologies, and increasingly interconnected economies; supply chain management is boosted by means of mind-boggling technological innovations like Digital Twins and Agent-Based Model. Since supply chains are now building with increasingly complex and collaborative interdependencies, Agent-Based Models are an extremely useful tool when representing such relationships, to obtain a formal and more simplified description of a system (that can be as complex as the relationships between the agents of all the supply chain, from the supplier, the manufacturer, to the distributor of a product or service) and as an optimization technique for mitigation of risk. While Digital Twins are new solutions elements for enable real-time digital monitoring and control or an automatic decision maker with a higher efficiency and accuracy. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.