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The impacts of the e-commerce growth have increased the urgency in designing and adopting new alternative delivery strategies. In this context, it is important to consider the particularities of each city like its terrain conditions. This article aims at exploring the impact of road slopes on parcel delivery operations, and how they condition the adoption and implementation of alternative, more sustainable delivery strategies. To this end, a microscopic traffic simulator was used to evaluate different delivery strategies including ICE vans, electric vans, and cargo bikes in three different slope scenarios. This evaluation was based on a medium-sized European city and conducted by comparing the same parcel delivery route at three levels: operational (route length, duration, and waiting time), energy consumption, and emissions. The results revealed that as the road slopes increased, more time was needed to deliver all packages, waiting times grew longer, and vehicles' energy consumption and emissions levels intensified. From the flat terrain to the most sloped terrain, there was an increase in duration of around 5% for traditional and electric vans, 35% for large cargo bikes, and 14% for small cargo bikes. The ICE van suffers a 105% increase in waiting time; the electric van 71%; the large cargo bike 68% and the small cargo bike 52%. Energy consumption also varied, with ICE vans and small cargo bikes consuming nearly 30% more energy, while electric vans and large cargo bikes consumed 4% and 60% more energy, respectively. The ICE van's emissions of CO, HC, PMx, NOx, and CO2 are 13%, 10%, 1%, 20%, and 29% higher, respectively. Moreover, in flatter terrains, the better strategies are the electric van or a large cargo bike, while in more sloped terrains, the most adequate one is the electric van. These findings suggest that the electric van is the best overall strategy for different terrains and different decision-making profiles, ranking first in more than 70% of the profiles across all three terrains.

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The digitalization and evolution of information technologies within the industry 4.0 have allowed the creation of the virtual model of the production system, called Digital Twin, with the capacity to simulate different scenarios, providing support for better decision-making. This tool not only represents a virtual copy of the physical world that obtains information about the state of the value chain but also illustrates a system capable of changing the development of productive activity towards personalized production, extending product versatility. Decentralized production seeks to respond to these needs because it allows the agglomeration of several services with different geographic locations, promoting the sharing of resources. This paper proposes an architecture for the development of a digital platform of personalization and decentralization of production based on sharing of sustainable resources. With a single tool, it is possible to define the entire production line for a product.

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Industry 4.0 brought modernization to the productive system through the network integration of the constituent entities that, combined with the evolution of information technologies, allowed an increase in productivity, product quality, production cost optimization, and product customization to customer needs. In this paper a model was created using the open-source tool Knime that, based on a set of data provided by Bosch, parameterized the model with several pre-processing techniques, resource selection, and minimization of over-fitting, allowing the development of a final improved model for internal product failure prediction at Bosch production line. The study shows that model efficiency improved with the application of resource selection and reduction techniques, with Logistic Regression and PCA resource selection techniques standing out, obtaining a Recall of 100% and precision and accuracy, both with 99.43%.

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Energy and materials are increasingly important in industrialized countries, and they impact the economy, sustainability, and people's future. The purpose of this work was to study the relationship between energy and the circular economy using methods such as Pearson's correlation and a principal component analysis. Thus, 12 strong correlations were found, with 5 of them between the following relevant variables from two different subjects: the correlations of the raw material consumption, the domestic material consumption, and the material import dependency with the final energy consumption in transport (0.81, 0.92, and 0.81); the correlation of the circular material use rate with the final energy consumption in households (0.70); and the correlation of the material import dependency with the final energy consumption in industry (0.89). The time series forecast was only conclusive for the waste generated, showing that it will increase in the next 10 years.

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Industry 4.0 represents a turning point in the thinking of the production model since it is based on digitalized production systems with the aim of improving productivity, product quality, and delivery time to the customer. The digitalization and evolution of information technology allowed the emulation of production system virtual models, namely in the concept of Digital Twin (DT), with the ability to simulate different scenarios providing support for better decision making. This concept not only represents a virtual copy of the physical world that obtains information about the state of the value chain but also illustrates a system capable of changing the development of the production activity according to the fulfillment of the intended business goals. In literature, the concept of the Digital Twin is exhaustively treated as a stand-alone factory (one digital factory represents one physical factory) and underestimates the possibility of a DT oriented to a customized product (a project) that requires decentralized production systems. This paper brings to discussion the relevance of product customized applying DT to smart customization, and the inclusion of decentralized production systems supported by Cloud Manufacturing. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.

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Industry 4.0 has brought modernization to the production system through the network integration of the constituent entities which, combined with the evolution of information technology, has enabled an increase in productivity, product quality, optimization of production costs, and product customization to customer needs. Despite the complexity of human thought, artificial intelligence tries to replicate it in algorithms, creating models capable of processing databases with a high volume of information, and generating valuable information for decision making. Within this area, there are subfields, such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning, which, through mathematical models, define patterns to predict output data from known input data. In addition to this type of algorithm, there are metaheuristic models capable of optimizing the parameters required in Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms. These intelligent systems have applications in various areas such as industry, construction, health, logistics processes, and maintenance management, among others. This paper focuses on Artificial Intelligence models addressing Industry 4.0 approach. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.