El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / This article describes how using logistics management models in collaboration with a process traceability system improves storage management processes in the coffee supply chain by reducing losses and high storage-related logistics costs, with support from a digital transformation process. For the purposes of this study, data on times and costs incurred as per the corresponding criteria and purchasing power, errors in order specifications, and delivery delays that result in losses were used, as these cause coffee to lose market value within an organization in a cooperative setting (business associations).

The focus of this research is in the area of Remote Condition Monitoring (RCM) for use within intermodal transport and logistics industries. For many years the intermodal transport industry has utilised these RCM systems that have in built flaws due to the subsystems they use.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:22:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Giseli Isabeli Moraes Cabrini.pdf: 291247 bytes, checksum: 5413a36e841b794bd47ca9cd485c834d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-10 / This result of work aims to show structural and organizational characteristics of the main agents which join the productive chain of bovine meat, besides an inefficient performance from the government to solve problems concerning FMD and traceability, which are internal barriers for exporting of products and their derivatives. More specifically, this paper focuses on the investigation of matters related to the members which join the bovine meat chain and make hard its articulation for a collective action that generates common benefits, in order to eradicate FMD and implement a an efficient and internationally recognized traceability system and also checking the government performance to minimize or solve those problems. This way, academic tasks, books, magazines, articles and official web sites and entities related to the bovine meat chain were searched. The results show that, although private agents and federal government have the increasing of Brazilian exportation of the product and its derivatives as common interest, they have less contributed effectively, during the first office of Lula President, to solve matters that make hard the shipments of such goods relating to the eradication of FMD and traceability, which concern non tariff barriers to the shipments of this kind of product. The issue focused has relevance as the maintenance and expansion of exports of Brazilian meat have great importance for the trade balance. Even though there is still too much to be done, as a great part of studies focuses just on Brazilian diplomatic history, with emphasis on the State trades, making possible a rich possibility of investigation about matters which concern the performance of private actors and those with the state when interests of nation are involved / Este trabalho tem como objetivo mostrar que as características estruturais e organizacionais dos principais agentes que compõem a cadeia produtiva de carne bovina aliadas a uma frágil atuação do governo para sanar problemas relacionados à febre aftosa e à rastreabilidade constituem entraves internos às exportações do produto e seus derivados. Mais especificamente, este estudo concentra-se na investigação das questões relacionadas aos membros que compõem a cadeia de carne bovina que dificultam sua articulação em prol de uma ação coletiva que gere benefícios comuns a fim de erradicar a febre aftosa e implantar um sistema de rastreabilidade bovina eficiente e reconhecido internacionalmente e também de verificar a atuação do governo para minimizar ou resolver estes problemas. Para tanto, foram pesquisados trabalhos acadêmicos, livros, revistas, artigos e sites oficiais e de entidades ligadas à cadeia de carne bovina. Os resultados mostram que embora tanto os agentes privados quanto o governo tenham como interesse comum o aumento das exportações brasileiras do produto e seus derivados, pouco contribuíram de forma efetiva, ao longo do primeiro governo Lula, para resolver as questões que dificultam os embarques deste tipo de mercadoria relacionadas à erradicação da febre aftosa e à rastreabilidade, as quais constituem barreiras não-tarifárias e técnicas aos embarques deste tipo de mercadoria. O tema enfatizado possui relevância visto que a manutenção e ampliação das exportações de carne bovina brasileira são de grande importância para a balança comercial. Entretanto há ainda muito a ser feito, uma vez que grande parte dos estudos volta-se exclusivamente para a história diplomática brasileira, com ênfase nos negócios do Estado, deixando um fértil terreno investigativo para questões que envolvam a atuação de atores privados e destes com o Estado quando dizem respeito aos interesses da Nação

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:57:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Giseli Isabeli Moraes Cabrini.pdf: 291247 bytes, checksum: 5413a36e841b794bd47ca9cd485c834d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-10 / This result of work aims to show structural and organizational characteristics of the main agents which join the productive chain of bovine meat, besides an inefficient performance from the government to solve problems concerning FMD and traceability, which are internal barriers for exporting of products and their derivatives. More specifically, this paper focuses on the investigation of matters related to the members which join the bovine meat chain and make hard its articulation for a collective action that generates common benefits, in order to eradicate FMD and implement a an efficient and internationally recognized traceability system and also checking the government performance to minimize or solve those problems. This way, academic tasks, books, magazines, articles and official web sites and entities related to the bovine meat chain were searched. The results show that, although private agents and federal government have the increasing of Brazilian exportation of the product and its derivatives as common interest, they have less contributed effectively, during the first office of Lula President, to solve matters that make hard the shipments of such goods relating to the eradication of FMD and traceability, which concern non tariff barriers to the shipments of this kind of product. The issue focused has relevance as the maintenance and expansion of exports of Brazilian meat have great importance for the trade balance. Even though there is still too much to be done, as a great part of studies focuses just on Brazilian diplomatic history, with emphasis on the State trades, making possible a rich possibility of investigation about matters which concern the performance of private actors and those with the state when interests of nation are involved / Este trabalho tem como objetivo mostrar que as características estruturais e organizacionais dos principais agentes que compõem a cadeia produtiva de carne bovina aliadas a uma frágil atuação do governo para sanar problemas relacionados à febre aftosa e à rastreabilidade constituem entraves internos às exportações do produto e seus derivados. Mais especificamente, este estudo concentra-se na investigação das questões relacionadas aos membros que compõem a cadeia de carne bovina que dificultam sua articulação em prol de uma ação coletiva que gere benefícios comuns a fim de erradicar a febre aftosa e implantar um sistema de rastreabilidade bovina eficiente e reconhecido internacionalmente e também de verificar a atuação do governo para minimizar ou resolver estes problemas. Para tanto, foram pesquisados trabalhos acadêmicos, livros, revistas, artigos e sites oficiais e de entidades ligadas à cadeia de carne bovina. Os resultados mostram que embora tanto os agentes privados quanto o governo tenham como interesse comum o aumento das exportações brasileiras do produto e seus derivados, pouco contribuíram de forma efetiva, ao longo do primeiro governo Lula, para resolver as questões que dificultam os embarques deste tipo de mercadoria relacionadas à erradicação da febre aftosa e à rastreabilidade, as quais constituem barreiras não-tarifárias e técnicas aos embarques deste tipo de mercadoria. O tema enfatizado possui relevância visto que a manutenção e ampliação das exportações de carne bovina brasileira são de grande importância para a balança comercial. Entretanto há ainda muito a ser feito, uma vez que grande parte dos estudos volta-se exclusivamente para a história diplomática brasileira, com ênfase nos negócios do Estado, deixando um fértil terreno investigativo para questões que envolvam a atuação de atores privados e destes com o Estado quando dizem respeito aos interesses da Nação

In a circular economy, tracking the flow of second-life components for quality control is critical. Track and trace of products or product parts are an essential enabler for a circular economy. With the use of tokenization and blockchain, products can be traced in a decentralized and secure fashion. In this thesis, we implement a system that could be used for the tracking and tracing of computer components. Using the Algorand blockchain, we have implemented a system based on the typical actors involved in the life cycle of a computer. Employing smart contracts, we have set up a system that regulates the ownership of the tokens representing the parts in a computer. We also performed scalability tests on the developed system to measure its time to perform certain critical operations. The result of these test indicate that the developed system is useful at scale. The open-source implementation of the system is publicly available on Github*. / Inom cirkulär ekonomi är spårbarhet av begagnade komponenter en kritiskt del av kvalitetssäkring. Spårning av hela, eller delar av, produkter är en grundläggande möjliggörare för cirkulär ekonomi. Med hjälp av tokenisering och blockkedjor kan produkter spåras på ett decentraliserat och säkert sätt. I denna rapport utvecklar vi ett system som kan användas för att spåra datorkomponenter. Genom att använda blockkedjan Algorand har vi utvecklat ett system baserat på de typiska aktörerna som är inblandade i livscykeln av en dator. Genom användning av Algorand smarta kontrakt har vi satt upp ett system som reglerar ägandeskapet av en token som representerar komponenterna i en dator. Vi genomförde även skalbarhetstester på det utvecklade systemet för att mäta tidsåtgången för utförandet av vissa kritiska operationer. Källkoden till vårt utvecklade system finns publikt tillgängligt på GitHub*.

The trends for manufacturing organizations are continuously increased customer expectations and demands, together with globalization of both markets and competition. As we are currently approaching the fourth industrial revolution and in order to stay competitive, companies need to adopt technological changes, differentiate themselves and improve their digital maturity. In line with this, Atlas Copco Secoroc, a Swedish manufacturing company of mining equipment and tools, has shared a divisional vision stating that they will embrace the Internet of Things and introduce some of the latest technological and digital trends. This in turn, sets some requirements on a functional traceability system. This research investigates how traceability could be improved throughout Atlas Copco Secoroc’s production chain and manufacturing processes. This research is based on an empirical study consisting of observations and interviews, all conducted at the company Atlas Copco Secoroc in Fagersta, Sweden, as well as a coherent and iterative literature review. The results emphasize the importance of understanding the overall need, clearly defining a traceability strategy and setting a suitable target level. It is vital to acquire knowledge regarding the subject and to first focus on securing the internal traceability and then expand to cover the entire supply chain. Furthermore, the findings highlight existing shortcomings, present material and recommendations that should be taken into consideration before advancing further and in-dicate the synergies with total quality management. Moreover, the master thesis resulted in concrete actions regarding how Atlas Copco Secoroc can enhance traceability within their manufacturing processes. Due to confidential information these recommendations are shown to Atlas Copco only and are not included in the published master thesis. / Trenderna för tillverkande företag är ständigt ökade kundkrav och förväntningar, tillsammans med globalisering av både marknader och konkurrens. För att vara fortsatt konkurrenskraftig när vi nu närmar oss den fjärde industrirevolutionen måste företagen adaptera tekniska förändringar, differentiera sig och förbättra den digitala mognaden. I linje med detta har Atlas Copco Secoroc, ett svenskt industriföretag som tillverkar gruvutrustning och verktyg, delat en divis-ionsvision som säger att de kommer att omfamna Internet of Things och introducera några av de senaste tekniska och digitala trenderna. Detta ställer i sin tur vissa krav på ett funktionellt spårbarhetssystem. Denna studie undersöker hur spårbarheten kan förbättras genom Atlas Copco Secorocs produktionskedja och tillhörande tillverkningsprocesser. Detta examensarbete baseras på en empirisk studie utförd hos Atlas Copco Secoroc i Fagersta. Studien bestod av ingående observationer och intervjuer samt en kontinuerlig och iterativ litteraturstudie. Resultaten betonar vikten av att förstå det övergripande behovet, tydligt definiera en spårbarhetsstrategi och sätta en lämplig spårbarhetsnivå. Det är viktigt att förvärva kunskap om ämnet och att först fokusera på att säkra den interna spårbarheten innan arbetet avser täcka hela försörjningskedjan. Vidare lyfter resultaten fram befintliga brister, material och rekommendationer som bör beaktas innan en vidareutveckling kan ske. Studien presenterar även synergierna till konceptet total kvalitetsledning.Slutligen, studien har resulterat i konkreta åtgärder avseende hur Atlas Copco Secoroc kan för-bättra spårbarheten inom sina tillverkningsprocesser. På grund av konfidentiell information presenteras dessa rekommendationer endast för Atlas Copco och ingår inte i det publicerade examensarbetet.

<p dir="ltr">Asset traceability systems support sustainable value creation. Use case scenarios include the transition from a linear to a circular economy (CE) and legislative initiatives in Europe and North America. Traceability systems are needed to consistently link physical assets with the corresponding digital life cycle data. However, there is a lack of system architectures for consistent asset life cycle traceability. Therefore, the work proposes a traceability system architecture using digital product passports (DPPs) and fingerprint (FP) technology. By providing asset related data, DPPs increase the transparency across value chain partners. The system architecture uses the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) to create interoperable and standardized DPPs. Besides, consistent product identification (ID) and unique (single occurrence) identifiers are a prerequisite for effective traceability systems. Using natural markers to identify assets can enhance consistent asset traceability in sustainable supply chains. When using FP technology, the inherent surface structure of an asset is captured by an imaging system and then compressed into a digital asset fingerprint. Since assets are not artificially marked, the work investigates the use of Bounding Symbols (BSs) to locate an asset’s fingerprint Region of Interest (ROI). Furthermore, four fingerprint creation algorithms are compared and evaluated regarding their feasibility for asset life cycle traceability. The research validates the proposed system architecture in an experimental setup by using aluminum raw castings (medallions) as the investigated asset type. Key findings include the successful identification of 80 medallions with a 100% success rate. The related fingerprint information was stored in a DPP as an AAS submodel.</p>