[EN] The economy of the future is experiencing a fundamental change in its structure, determined mainly by demographic factors. To this regard, the silver economy concept has been coined, relative to the consumer segment ...

[EN] This article aims to introduce the challenge (i.e., integration of new collaborative models and tools) posed by the automation and collaboration of industrial processes in Industry 4.0 (I4.0) smart factories. Small- ...

[EN] This paper addresses the problem of information exchange required for collaborative manufacturing planning processes at supply network levels. For a few years now, the traditional manufacturing planning paradigm has ...

[EN] A wide variety of methods and techniques with multiple characteristics are used in solving replenishment, production and distribution planning problems. Selecting a solution method (either a solver or an algorithm) ...

[EN] Collaboration has increasingly been considered a key topic within the small and medium-sized enterprises, allowing dealing with the intense competitiveness of today¿s globalised markets. The European H2020 Cloud ...

[DE] The Collaborative Networks (CN) discipline has been largely studied in last decades, addressing different problems and proposing solutions for the robust establishment of collaborative processes, within the enterprises ...

[EN] The growing amount of data to be handled by collaborative networks raises the need of introducing innovative solutions to fulfil the lack of affordable tools, especially for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, to ...

Collaborative networks (CN) are characterised by being complex systems, highlighting the need of considering simulation approaches to support the resolution of CN models. Simulation approaches are seen as a supporting tool ...

[EN] The importance of collaboration has increased in supply networks; and thus, the number of so called non-hierarchical manufacturing networks (NHN). When establishing collaborative processes appear a number of barriers ...

Novel standardised data model for collaborative manufacturing environments (CMData), building a taxonomy of data concepts to represent information related to the replenishment, production and delivery planning domains