Sistemas Industriais na Era Digital

Objectives

This course has as main objective to introduce students to needs and challenges of the Industrial Engineering and Management Profession(s) to the Technological Context of the Digital Era. This course aims to contribute largely for the education of engineers in: Conceiving, Designing, Implementing and Operating Systems in the Enterprise, Societal and Environmental Context. Within this component, we focus on developping competences on: - External, Societal and Environmental Context; - Enterprise and Business Context; - Conceiving, Systems Engineering and Management.

Syllabus

1 - Introduction: Industrial Engineering Profession(s) and Technological Mind Map with brief technology definitions 2 - Digital Transformation: Evolution, Holistic Perspective, Where does it happen, essential elements and strategic goals; Digitial transformation and industry sectors 3 - Internet of Things (IoT): Overview, Evolution, Growth and Definition; The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); IoT Trends; IoT and industry sectors 4 - Industry 4.0 (I4.0): Overview, Evolution and Definition; I4.0 and Industrial Internet; Benefits, Strategy and Implementation; Building Blocks; The automation Pyramid; Design Principles; I4.0 Trends; Smart Industry; Logistics 4.0 5 - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT): Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, Cloud computing and others 6 - Thematic Seminars: Invited Lecturers from Academia and Companies

Prerequisites

The course does not require any prerequisite.

Cross Competence Component

The soft skills present in this course are: Critical and Innovative Thinking - strategic thinking, developing creativity and critical thinking, mainly in the group project and to develop both deliverables - for instance, to develop a SWOT analysis of a given technology or to focus on producing an attractive video from collected information in a short ammount of time; Self and interpersonal skills - productivity and time management, written and oral communication, team work, in the group project and also in the timed quizzes. Information and media literacy - Use of computer and multimedia tools from the user's perspective, structuring reports. This will be accomplished by preparing the deliverables of the project. The assessment of these components in the different evaluation methods will correspond to a total of 30% of the course evaluation.

Laboratorial Component

0% of laboratory component.

Programming And Computing Component

This course has no Programing and Computing Component.

Ethical Principles

All members of a group are responsible for the group's work. In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used. In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.