Enterprise Systems Engineering

About Domain

The research carried out at the Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) has a direct impact on industrial transformation, developing sustainable, resilient, and human-centred solutions to address the challenges of the digital and green transitions. Through a co-creation and development approach with scientific and industrial partners, CESE contributes to improve organisational capabilities and driving systemic innovation in complex industrial contexts. As a multidisciplinary research centre, CESE bridges science and practice in the field of Systems Engineering, focusing on value creation within industrial ecosystems. This mission is structured around five research lines that define CESE scientific and technological expertise: Manufacturing Systems Design and Management, Supply Chain and Collaborative Networks Management, Architectures and Industrial Information Systems, Technology Management in Industry, Transportation and Logistics.

Flagship Projects

Produtech_R3

Development of new methodologies, strategies, tools and approaches that will converge in new products, services and innovative systems (production technologies), aligned with the challenges of the circular economy and based on ensuring sustainability, ensuring significant levels of impact, from the start, in this sector and in the most diverse industrial sectors. It incorporates a coherent set of interventions, aimed at the development of products-systems-services, ecosystems of tools and applications, methodologies and strategies, supported by new digitization paradigms, aiming at: Capacity building for the development of new sustainable products (production systems and components). Advanced integration and management of sustainable production systems, zero defects - zero impacts environmental Symbiotic management of production ecosystems and supply chains in a circular context And the implementation of circular and sustainable approaches in manufacturing industry. It results from the action program of the PRODUTECH cluster and from the clustering movement at FTP, comprising core developments of the strategic axis “Mobilization for frontier R&D+I”.

Agenda Mobilizadora da Fileira das Tecnologias de Produção para a Reindustrialização

SoTecInFactory

The SoTecIn Factory project, funded by the EU program Horizon Europe, aims to support social entrepreneurs in increasing the circularity of different value chains and its main products, in addition to promoting the culture of social innovation in European industry. SoTecIn Factory will create a transnational community of stakeholders, representatives of 7 European regions, interested in the design and management of missions that will guide the identification of real challenges in the circularity of value chains. Based on the defined missions and challenges, the project will provide financial and training support to 50 entrepreneurs (with circular and social projects), which will result in 30 pre-commercialization demonstration projects guided by the missions, in line with the EU Action Plan for Circular Economy. Furthermore, these demonstrators will target higher-value circular economy strategies such as reuse, repair, reuse, renovation and remanufacturing.

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Selected Publications

Metaheuristics applied to mixed and simultaneous extensions of vehicle routing problems with backhauls

Crispim, J;Brandao, J;

2005

JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY

Cooperative planning in dynamic supply chains

Azevedo, AL;Toscano, C;Sousa, JP;

2005

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING

Multi-perspective challenges on collaborative networks business environments

Chituc, CM;Azevedo, AL;

2005

Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments

A multi-criteria Decision Support System for the formation of collaborative networks of enterprises

Crispim, JA;Sousa, JP;

2005

Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments

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Team Members

Team Leaders

António Lucas Soares

António Lucas Soares is a researcher at INESCTEC and associate professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering - University of Porto.

His area of expertise is Information Systems specialised in applications to Collaborative Networks and Information and Knowledge Management particularly in industrial organisations. His research interests include socio-technical design, knowledge representation, digital platforms for collaboration, design science research.

He is currently coordinating the Center for Enterprise Systems Engineering and the Cluster Industry & Innovation of INESCTEC.

At University of Porto, he is the director of the master programme in Information Science (FEUP/FLUP). He is member of the executive committee of the European chapter of the iSchools organisation and a founding member of the Portuguese Chapter of the Association for Information Systems.

He publishes regularly in scientific journals in the areas of information and knowledge management.

Rui Diogo Rebelo

Rui Rebelo has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty Lusíada, Famalicão (1994). His research interests include balancing, scheduling and development of new production systems.

His work comprehends different cases from development of decision support tools to industrial robotics. Since May 1995 until now he is a Senior Researcher in the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Unit (UESP) of INESC-Porto, Project Leader, actively participating in the institutions’ Research and Development (R&D) activities. He has participated in several R&D projects, including: “CEC-made-shoe: Custom, Environment and Comfort made shoe”, “EUROShoE – extended user oriented shoe enterprise“, “CICLOP - Computerised and integrated closing operations”, “FIT4U - Framework of Integrated Technologies for User Centred Products (2 European patents)