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Increasing the Efficiency and Workers Wellbeing in the European Bakery Industry: An Industry 4.0 Case Study

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Industry 4.0 refers to a revolution where innovative digital instruments will be employed to improve the production process efficiency as well as the working conditions. However, this new approach is not the only way to achieve those critical objectives, and many companies implemented years ago quality management plans guaranteeing both, the production efficiency, and workers wellbeing. The nature of these solutions and their associated costs is totally different, and while Industry 4.0 schemes need important deployment costs, traditional management plans are supported by human resources. Companies should restructure, then. Thus, the Industry 4.0 adoption challenge is not necessarily technological but economical and strategic. And clear quantitative analyses showing the advantages (economical, societal, …) at short and long term are required to promote this revolution. In this paper we present a study case focused on the European bakery industry, where a sensing platform is employed to increase the global production process efficiency and the workers wellbeing. Variables such as temperature, humidity, power consumption and air quality are monitored through sensor nodes. A framework of performance and economic indicators is generated, and we analyze their changes and envisioned evolution after the Industry 4.0 paradigm adoption. Results show the advantages of these new solutions in an objective and clear way.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from DEMETER project (H2020-DT-2018–2020. Grant no: 857202).

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  1. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Borja Bordel, Ramón Alcarria & Tomás Robles

  2. CODAN ESPAÑA S.A, Madrid, Spain

    Gema de la Torre & Isidoro Carretero

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  2. Geografía, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Carlos Ferrás

  3. Tecnológico de Costa Rica, San Carlos, Costa Rica

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Bordel, B., Alcarria, R., de la Torre, G., Carretero, I., Robles, T. (2022). Increasing the Efficiency and Workers Wellbeing in the European Bakery Industry: An Industry 4.0 Case Study. In: Rocha, Á., Ferrás, C., Méndez Porras, A., Jimenez Delgado, E. (eds) Information Technology and Systems. ICITS 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 414. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96293-7_54

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