Ceramic production processes are characterized by providing quantities of the same finished goods that differ in qualities, tones and gages. This aspect becomes a problem for ceramic supply chains (SCs) that should promise and serve customer orders with homogeneous quantities of the same...

Spanish Abstract: Los techos o cubiertas verdes permiten la instalación de un sustrato vegetal de poca profundidad que permite el cultivo de plantas, generándose así una serie de beneficios diversos que hacen que estos elementos estén considerados como un elemento de mitigación del cambio...

Spanish Abstract: Las necesidades crecientes de energía de nuestra sociedad han originado un crecimiento en el desarrollo de tecnologías relacionadas con el ahorro y la recuperación de energía (RE). Las redes de distribución de agua son grandes consumidores de energía y por ello determinar...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify some of existing problems associated with collaboration among SMEs of the same network. Concretely, the problems are focused. The research objective is to identify the most relevant problems existing when SMEs have to deal with decentralized...

This special issue of the Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management is dedicated on the most recent and relevant research, theories and practices in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management presented at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation of a Fleet Management System (FMS) that plans and controls the execution of logistics tasks by a set of mobile robots in a real-world hospital environment. The FMS is developed upon an architecture that hosts a routing engine,...

The main focus of this work is to prove the effectiveness of a fuzzy mathematical programming approach to model a supply chain production planning problem with uncertainty in demand. A fuzzy optimization model that takes into account the lack of knowledge in market demand is developed. This work...