Research projects

Cluster – Smart Adaptive Manufacturing The ADAPTIVE project aims at developing technologies and solutions to enhance the ability of modern factories to be flexible and efficient, appropriately responding to unpredictable changes in market requests. The project aims to the development of innovative devices and machines for supporting the as-autonomous-as-possible reconfiguration […]

The project is proposed as a goal the creation of two demonstrators applied to industrial manipulators and automatic assembly machines for the management and control of process parameters and alarm signals through the use of mobile devices. The CELS is proposed, within this project, to assess the basis of available […]

The analysis of the literature on Service Engineering underlines some lacks in the models developed until now. To overcome these limitations, this project aims to develop a normative model able to provide a set of coherent leverages for engineering contents of Product-Service along all the life cycle in order to […]

ESA (Electric Signature Analysis)  is the procedure of capturing the equipment’s supply signals (current and/or voltage) and analysing them to detect malfunctions (not only electrical ones) or incipient faults. ESA provides diagnostic and prognostic information comparable to conventional prognostics techniques, but requires only access to electric supply lines rather than […]

Maintenance has been experiencing a slow but constant evolution across the years, from the former concept of “badly necessary” up to being considered as a vital function within a company and a strategic leverage for gaining a sustainable competitive advantage. In this context, it is necessary to consider maintenance as […]

The applications of the sustainability principles in the automotive industry have mainly focused on technological innovation at the level of product or through the provision of new services. Conversely, these companies have not concentrated their efforts on promoting sustainable actions on organizing and managing repair and maintenance services, their supporting […]

A process reference model developed and endorsed by the Supply Chain Council (SCC) as a standard framework to map sales and service activities within the Supply Chain Management context. It describes all those processes involved in the interaction between a company and its customers through the use of Plan, Relate, […]

In today economical environment, supply failure has become the first supply chain risk. Common methods employed to manage supply risk are buffer-oriented methods, where buffering may concern time, capacity, inventories. These methods represent only a shield against risk and contribute to raise overall costs. A more effective method to reduce […]

Companies have progressively realised that complementing industrial goods with the provision of value added services can be an important lever to prosper on those markets affected by weak demand, hard competition and decreasing margins. Among the different forms of service provisions, After-Sales services have acquired a strategic role as a […]