Cuauhtémoc Sánchez-Ramírez – författare

This book presents the latest developments concerning techniques, tools, and methodologies in supply chain ecosystems. It gathers contributions from a variety of experts, who analyze a range of case studies and industrial sectors such as manufacturing, energy, agricultural, healthcare, humanitarian logistics, and urban goods distribution, to name but a few.

The book is chiefly intended to meet the needs of two sectors: firstly, the academic sector, so as to familiarize students, professors, and researchers with the tools that are now being used to optimize supply chains; and secondly, the industrial and managerial sector, so that supply chain management practitioners can benefit from methods and tools that are yielding valuable results in other contexts.

This book presents a collection of real cases from industrial practices that production system and quality managers implement to ensure a high quality as well as a low cost in products. This book is divided in sections that are focused on:

·         The quality and philosophies implemented to production systems; starting from the product design as well as from the supply system.

·         The principal statistical techniques applied to the quality assurance (statistical quality control, analysis of tests and failure, quality function deployment, accelerated life tests, among others), the process of gathering information, its validation, its reliability process, and techniques for data analysis.

·         The techniques applied to the integration of human resources in the process of quality assurance, such as managers and operators’ participation, training, and training processes.

·         Use of information and communications technologies, software, and programs implemented to guarantee the quality of the products in the production systems.

This book presents different techniques and methodologies that used to help improve the decision-making process and increase the likelihood of success in sector as follows: agriculture, financial services, logistics, energy services, health and others. 

This book presents different techniques and methodologies used to improve the intelligent decision-making process and increase the likelihood of success in companies of different sectors such as Financial Services, Education, Supply Chain, Energy Systems, Health Services, and others.

The book contains and consolidates innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the implementation of techniques and methodologies applied in different sectors. The scope is to disseminate current trends knowledge in the implementation of artificial intelligence techniques and methodologies in different fields such as: Logistics, Software Development, Big Data, Internet of Things, Simulation, among others. The book contents are useful for Ph.D. researchers, Ph.D. students, master and undergraduate students of different areas such as Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, and others.