2018, vol. 11, núm. 2

 

Summary

  • Special Issue: Engineering Digital Transformation 

    Garcia-Sabater, Julio J.; Poler Escoto, Raúl; Mula, Josefa; Vicens-Salort, Eduardo (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access

  • Company Maturity Models: Application to Supplier Development Program in Oil & Gas Sector 

    Retegi Albisua, Jabier; Igartua López, Juan Ignacio (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: In order to achieve excellence, outsourced maintenance contractors in Oil&Gas sector play a key role due to the important impact of their task on security, availability and energy consumption. This paper presents ...

  • Promoting Structured Participation for Competitiveness in Services Companies 

    García-Arca, Jesús; Prado-Prado, J. Carlos; Fernández-González, Arturo José (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: To identify the main drivers that facilitate the successful deployment of a participation program aimed at improving competitiveness, as a prior step to analyze and discuss the implementation of these drivers in ...

  • A Model to Align Organizational Culture to Lean Culture 

    Taherimashhadi, Mehrsa; Ribas Vila, Immaculada (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: Since the emergence of Lean Manufacturing many organizations strived to implement it. Nonetheless, sustainable Lean transformation is not as easy as to be simply achieved. Several aspects need to be taken into ...

  • An ANP-Based Network to Measure the Impact of Lean Production on Organisational Performance 

    Ruano Pérez, José Luis; Rodriguez Rodriguez, Raúl; Alfaro-Saiz, Juan-Jose; Verdecho Saez, Maria Jose (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: The main objective of this research is to design a decision-making network, based on the Analytic Network Process (ANP) technique (Saaty, 1996), which will include the main elements to take into account when stating ...

  • Economic and Environmental Packaging Sustainability: A Case Study 

    González Boubeta, Ivan; Fernández Vázquez-Noguerol, Mar; Domínguez Caamaño, Pablo; Prado-Prado, J. Carlos (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: The aim of this paper is to analyze the suitability of the packaging strategy of an important Spanish agro-food company, regarding to economic and environmental sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: Three ...

  • Identification of Reverse Logistics Decision Types from Mathematical Models 

    Cortés Pellicer, Pascual; Alarcón Valero, Faustino (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: The increase in social awareness, politics and environmental regulation, the scarcity of raw materials and the desired “green” image, are some of the reasons that lead companies to decide for implement processes ...

  • Best Practices in Road Transport: An Exploratory Study 

    Fernández Vázquez-Noguerol, Mar; González Boubeta, Ivan; Domínguez Caamaño, Pablo; Prado-Prado, J. Carlos (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: Road transport aspects are becoming increasingly important due to their high impact on economic, environmental and social sustainability. Considering the triple bottom line approach, best practices play a fundamental ...

  • Transfer Prices Assignment with Integrated Production and Marketing Optimization Models 

    Parra, Enrique (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: In decentralized organizations (today a great majority of the large multinational groups), much of the decision-making power is in its individual business units –BUs–. In these cases, the management control system ...

  • Knowledge Management as a Tool for Improving Business Processes: An Action Research Approach 

    Martínez Martínez, Aurora; Cerdá Suárez, Luis Manuel; Sánchez Montero, Roberto; Asensio del Arco, Eva (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the importance of Knowledge Management as a tool for improving business processes in a different context from the industrial organizations, as an archaeological museum. ...

  • The Knowledge Absorptive Capacity to Improve the Cooperation and Innovation in the Firm 

    Sáiz Bárcena, Lourdes; Pérez Miguel, David; Manzanedo del Campo, Miguel Ángel (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose : The purpose of this paper is to study the absorptive capacity types in the knowledge management literature and aims to understand how companies can strength their contexts of cooperation in order to innovate. ...

  • Analyzing the Effects of Applying IoT to a Metal-Mechanical Company 

    Cañizares, Eduardo; Alarcón Valero, Faustino (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show the improvements obtained through the application of IoT in a company of the metal-mechanical sector. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology used has been the collection ...

  • Software Defined Networking Firewall for Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Systems 

    Tsuchiya, Akihiro; Fraile, Francisco; Koshijima, Ichiro; Ortiz, Angel; Poler Escoto, Raúl (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: In order to leverage automation control data, Industry 4.0 manufacturing systems require industrial devices to be connected to the network. Potentially, this can increase the risk of cyberattacks, which can ...

  • Formative Assessment Framework Proposal for Transversal Competencies: Application to Analysis and Problem-Solving Competence 

    Gómez-Gasquet, Pedro; Verdecho Saez, Maria Jose; Rodriguez Rodriguez, Raúl; Alfaro-Saiz, Juan-Jose (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: In the last years, there is an increasing interest in the manner that transversal competences (TC) are introduced in the curricula. Transversal competences are generic and relevant skills that students have to ...

  • Efficient Election Campaign Optimization Using Integer Programming 

    Güney, Evren (OmniaScience, 2018-04)
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    Open Access
    Purpose: Political parties spend significant amounts of resources during their election campaigns, which are usually designed in a sub-optimal and informal way. This study aims to provide a mathematical framework for ...