The CUCE of the future
In April 2019, the new production plant of CAMST located in Vicofertile (Parma) has been inaugurated.
Camst is the Italian leading company in the production and distribution of food catering products in agreement th different production processes and technologies. This is the "CUCE of the future", the result of an innovative project of design, pla...
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Author: riccardo.manzini@unibo.it
tour in Giorgio Gori & Interporto Amerigo Vespucci 2019
On May 15, 2019, a selection of the best industrial engineering students from the University of Bologna takes part in a special tour of the infrastructures devoted to the international distribution of Italian wine in Livorno thanks to the collaboration of Giorgio Gori Group, a leading company providing logistic services for wine supply chain worldwide, and the Food Supply...
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A hierarchical data architecture for sustainable food supply chain management and planning
Journal of Cleaner Production, dec.2018
Abstract
The agro-food industry is one of the largest parts of the European Union's economy and faces economic and environmental stresses. While food traceability systems (FTSs) inform supply chain actors of product and logistical attributes, large scale implementations are scarce and are do not support active&nb...
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Company Visit 2019 Interporto Amerigo Vespucci & Wine Supply Chain
On May 15, 2019, a selection of the best industrial engineering students from the University of Bologna will take part in a special tour of the Amerigo Vespucci Interport in Livorno thanks to the collaboration of Giorgio Gori Group, a leading company providing logistic services for wine supply chain worldwide, and the Food Supply Chain Center at UniBO.
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2018 sustainability young investigator award to Riccardo Accorsi
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The Food Supply chain Center is happy to announce that the winner of the 2018 Sustainability Young Investigator Award promoted by the leading International Journal "sustainability" (Impact Factor 2.075) is Dr. Riccardo Accorsi.
"Dr. Accorsi is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum, University...
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2018 sustainability young investigator award to Riccardo Accorsi
Warehouse management system customization and information availability in 3pl companies: A decision-support tool, 2018
Warehouse management system customization and information availability in 3pl companies: A decision-support tool
Author(s):
Giulia Baruffaldi, (Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy) (Department of Industrial Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
Riccardo Accorsi, (Depar...
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A bi-objective storage assignment policy for temperature-sensitive products, 2018
Abstract
The increasing attention of consumers to product quality and safety raises new challenges for logistics. Enhancing the operation efficiency and mutually ensuring the safety and quality of the handled products are key levers for logistics providers and other operators in temperature-sensitive supply chain. Handling the temperature conditions experienced by th...
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WFSC 2018 – Australia
5th International Workshop on Food Supply Chains
Melbourne, Australia, 4th – 6th December 2018
Held in conjunction with the 26thASOR National Conference for the Australian Society of Operations Research and Defence Operations Research Symposium (ASOR/DORS) 2018
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Organizing Institute
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Universal Robots – March, 2018
Universal Robots – the leading international company in production and application of cobot (collaborative robot) for industry and automation of production system
from Wikipedia:
A cobot[1] or co-robot[2] (from collaborative robot) is a robot intended to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace.[3] This is in contrast with other robots, designed t...
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Companies visit
Companies tour 2018
prof.Riccardo Manzini organized the visits of two important companies on April 2018 with a selection of students from Mechanical Engineering and Management Engineering of the School of Engineering and Architecture of Bologna University
System Logistics - Fiorano Modenese (Modena, Italy)System Logistics is a leading global supplier of innovative solutions of intra-l...
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Brivio & Viganò dec. 2017
Brivio & Viganò at UniBO - the leading italian company in food logistics
On december 20, 2017 Dr.Eng. Efrem Terraneo, Project Manager in Brivio & Viganò, leading Italian player in the sector of Distribution and Integrated Logistics for food products, presents the new temperature-controlled distribution center - CEDI to the students of Mechanical Engineering of Bologn...
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OITA research and UniBO’s student collaboration/thesis thanks to Lamberet
to the following link the research conducted by a student, Ferdinando Tampieri, of Bologna University on food supply chain and transportation thanks to the interest and collaboration of Lamberet, the leading company in cold transportation and vehicle equipments
This is the speech presentation of Ferdinando Tampieri during his master thesis discussion in July, 2017
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A climate driven decision-support model for the distribution of perishable products, 2017
see the paper (free-access) till sept.2017
Highlights
• This paper addresses an open field of research in the supply chain of perishable products.
• This paper provides a MILP model for the planning of processing and distribution operations in cold chains.
• This paper incorporates the interactions of distribution constraints and climate conditions.
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EcoPackLab for sustainable and innovative packaging system
The EcoPackLab project aims to create a sustainable and innovative packaging system for quality improvement of packed food during its storage. The project makes use of both University of Bologna laboratories and industrial supply chains, by means of an integrated and interdisciplinary approach on quality, safety, sustainability and logistics efficiency, that takes advantage...
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Summary presentation
This is a summary presentation of all activities wich deals with logistics and operations, including Food Supply chain issues and challenges
https://youtu.be/FU3yCdi7roc
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Volkswagen Group Italia, April 2017
This is the Claudio de Mayda's speech during the Workshop on Logistics solutions for the students of Management Engineering, Bologna University
https://youtu.be/n5Qgc08Qe5M
This is the presentation discussed by Dr.Claudio de Mayda, Volkswagen Group Italia.
https://youtu.be/yNO1xNqdGU8
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MACFRUT Workshop – Sustainability of Reusable Plastic Containers – The Pooling System of CPR System
on May 10, 2017 - Macfrut (Rimini Fiera). A workshop on sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the pooling system of CPR. The first results of a study conducted by the Food Supply Chain Center. Speakers from UniBO: prof.Riccardo Manzini, Phd student Giulia Baruffaldi and eng. Luca Volpe.
Giulia Baruffaldi, Luca Volpe, Riccardo Manzini - Foo...
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Ikea, April 2017
On April 2017, prof.Riccardo Manzini organized the annual seminar on Logistics and Supply Chain Management during the course of Industrial Logistics (for students in Management Engineering) at the School of Engineering and Architecture. Luigi Manzoli and Marco Monfasani present IKEA group and logistics issues in IKEA Distribution.
The speech/lecture and videos...
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