Tennessee Section of ITE-Meaningful Meetings, Meet-Ups, and More!

The Tennessee Section of ITE (TSITE) has strong local Section meetings, which were allowed and encouraged in 2022 as conditions improved from the COVID-19 pandemic. In-person meetings resumed in each of the larger cities: Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Johnson City. Technical sessions at meetings included applications of cutting-edge transportation elements and offered professional development hours (PDHs) for participants. TSITE was able to host all four of its quarterly Section meetings in person. The quarterly meetings rotate across the state and are typically full-day events. They begin in the morning with technical presentations and lunch is provided, followed by the business meeting, additional technical sessions, and/or a technical tour. In 2022, the Summer and Fall Section meetings were 3-day events. In 2022, the quarterly meetings were hosted and well-attended. The Winter Meeting in Cookeville TN at Tennessee Tech University in February had 71 participants. Meeting presentations included "MDOT Traffic Signal Asset Management & Preventative Maintenance," "Campus Like Emergence Evaluation Modeling," "Evaluating factors associated with Abandoned and Disabled Vehicle Incidents in Tennessee," and "MAQ award for deploying an NDOT Traffic Management Center and other emerging projects."

Impact of industrial maintenance on the supply chain in a textile company in times of pandemic

This document shows the way in which the supply chain of a company in the textile industry was affected as a result of the lack of maintenance in one of its productive processes in times of pandemic is exposed. From this premise a preventive maintenance proposal is presented, with the purpose of allowing the organization to reduce unscheduled stoppages in the machinery that produces the analyzed product. The maintenance proposal was carried out through observation, information registration and open interviews. Furthermore, the maintenance proposal was elaborated from an analysis of the critical points of the machinery, which were identified by a Pareto diagram. With this maintenance plan, it is intended to have a flexible production that allows to adapt to the needs of the current demand derived from the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2022 IEEE.

A conceptual framework for an agile asset performance management process

Purpose>Disturbances in terms of major crises such as pandemics, fluctuations in demand and oil price, energy consumption and supply chain can significantly impair the maintenance programs effectiveness and efficiency. Hence, there is an urgent need for an agile asset performance management (AAPM) framework.Design/methodology/approach>This paper's main objective is to design a comprehensive framework for an AAPM system that sustains the desired asset performance by reacting efficiently, quickly and intelligently to the changes in the operating context parameters and asset health conditions. Such a framework is adaptive to changes in scenarios and aims to systematise the decision support process, considering different objectives.Findings>The development of the proposed framework has led to identifying an innovative way of seamless integration between crucial reliability and asset management tools. Also, the methodology implementation is expected to promote the practical use of its reliability tools and enable asset stakeholders to break silo working for clear communication around asset performance.Originality/value>The implementation of the AAPM framework follows a new approach developed during this research and coined by the authors as the “8S approach.”

From ESG to DESG: The Impact of DESG (Digital Environmental, Social, and Governance) on Customer Attitudes and Brand Equity

Due to the advances in digital technology, the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concept has been transformed into the digital environmental, social, and corporate governance (DESG) model, which can be realized as a potentially vital strategic movement for sustainable business practices in the contemporary digital era. Nevertheless, there is a lack of empirical research evidence on how firms’ DESG practices impact customers’ attitudes and brand equity. The purposes of this study were (1) to investigate the effect of DESG initiatives on customers’ attitudes (CA) and brand equity (BE), and (2) to explore how those impacts vary based on the diversity of socio-economic attributes. An online survey was conducted, and the data were analyzed by a structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. Based on 212 samples of Thai citizens’ experiences with firms’ DESG initiatives, the results revealed that DESG has a significant positive direct effect on CA. The mediation analysis revealed that CA fully mediated the relationship between DESG and BE. The results of a second-order confirmatory factor analysis of the DESG construct found that the digital social dimension (b = 0.775) played the strongest role in explaining DESG, followed by the digital environmental (b = 0.768) and digital governance (b = 0.718) dimensions. The moderation analysis found that the impact of DESG on CA was stronger for younger groups than older populations. Additionally, the group with a higher formal education level seemed to exhibit higher levels of CA than those with a lower level. Our study is one of a few endeavors to clarify the effects of DESG from the customer’s side, and suggests several implications and recommendations.

Predictive Maintenance 4.0 for Chilled Water System at Commercial Buildings: A Systematic Literature Review

Predictive maintenance plays an important role in managing commercial buildings. This article provides a systematic review of the literature on predictive maintenance applications of chilled water systems that are in line with Industry 4.0/Quality 4.0. The review is based on answering two research questions about understanding the mechanism of identifying the system’s faults during its operation and exploring the methods that were used to predict these faults. The research gaps are explained in this article and are related to three parts, which are faults description and handling, data collection and frequency, and the coverage of the proposed maintenance programs. This article suggests performing a mixed method study to try to fill in the aforementioned gaps.

Applications of Digital Twin across Industries: A Review

One of the most promising technologies that is driving digitalization in several industries is Digital Twin (DT). DT refers to the digital replica or model of any physical object (physical twin). What differentiates DT from simulation and other digital or CAD models is the automatic bidirectional exchange of data between digital and physical twins in real-time. The benefits of implementing DT in any sector include reduced operational costs and time, increased productivity, better decision making, improved predictive/preventive maintenance, etc. As a result, its implementation is expected to grow exponentially in the coming decades as, with the advent of Industry 4.0, products and systems have become more intelligent, relaying on collection and storing incremental amounts of data. Connecting that data effectively to DTs can open up many new opportunities and this paper explores different industrial sectors where the implementation of DT is taking advantage of these opportunities and how these opportunities are taking the industry forward. The paper covers the applications of DT in 13 different industries including the manufacturing, agriculture, education, construction, medicine, and retail, along with the industrial use case in these industries.

ViewpointEnabling circular supply chains in a high-tech manufacturing industry

With this approach, we aim to add value to the industry's major supply chain players which comprise the independent device manufacturers (IDMs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and third-party service providers (Hickey and Kozlovski, 2020). The proposed system approach 2.1 Support for the shared reverse logistics A shared reverse-logistics process incorporating an industry-sponsored marketplace enhanced with a trusted knowledge-sharing environment was shown to benefit aftermarket operations for the semiconductor industry (Hickey and Kozlovski, 2020;Bahinipati and Deshmukh, 2012). 2.2 e-marketplace design The design method was enhanced with a combination of soft systems methodology and thematic analysis guiding the exploration of real world and systems world issues, elicitation of requirements and identification of system's features based on interviewing a diverse range of experts from different organisations within the industry (Checkland and Poulter, 2020). [...]there exists as an entrepreneurial opportunity in the market (Bahinipati and Deshmukh, 2012).

Experimenting with New Ways of Circular and Participatory Design: The Case Study of a Traditional Sicilian Architecture Transformed for Experiential Tourism

Circular economy, participatory design, and experiential tourism are the starting points for the “Il Pagliaru Novu” research project, whose aim is to redesign, in an innovative scope, a traditional Sicilian rural architecture called pagliaru. This paper aims to present such research, which experimented—in parallel—a circular design approach and a virtual participatory design experience to develop a microarchitecture for experiential tourism. We describe the method and design process behind the Pagliaru Novu, and the features—combining tradition and innovation—of such microarchitecture. The design, and especially the entire design process, highlights how a series of constraints related to the pandemic may turn into opportunities.