New Global Perspectives on Industrial Engineering and Management: International Joint Conference ICI

Part 1: Strategy and Enterpreneurship.- Chapter 1. Long Term Capacity Planning: The Comparison Between the Net Present Value, Return on Investment and Unitary Cost for Scale Analysis.-  Chapter 2. Investigating the Impact of Process Innovation over Profitability and Productivity: A Food Sector Application.-  Chapter 3. The Importance of Using Alternative Energy Sources within a New Global Perspective.-  Chapter 4. Strategies Adopted by Social Enterprises to Overcome Operations Resources Constraints: the Case of Vintage for a Cause.- Chapter 5. Developing a Scale to Measure Quality in Public Services Transport.- Chapter 6. A Model and a Methodology for the Systematization of Continuous Improvement of Logistics Processes in World-Class Companies.- Part 2: OR, Modelling and Simulation.- Chapter 7. Mapping the Perception of Users as the Usability of Smartphones: Benchmarking Features Through the Borda Count Method.- Chapter 8. Quality of Life in Latin America and Asia: An Economic Complexity Approach Between 2010 and 2014.- Chapter 9. The E ciency of Public Expenditures on Education: a Data Envelopment Analysis of Brazilian Federative Units Between 2011 to 2014.- Chapter 10. Using Simulated Annealing to Solve the Daily Drayage Problem with Hard Time Windows.- Chapter 11. State of the Art on Arduino and RFID.- Chapter 12. Identifying the Main Uncertainties in the Agri-food Supply Chain.- Chapter 13. Environmental and Financial Improvements Due to the use of Ecodesign - In one Furniture Industry.- Part 3: Quality and Product Management.- Chapter 1 4. Competitive Priorities in the Hotel Sector of Sinop - Located in Northern Mato Grosso - Brazil.- Chapter 15. Motivators and Barriers for Using Design Thinking in NPD.- Chapter 16. Implantation of Total Productive Maintenance: A Case Study in the Manufacturing Industry.- Chapter 17. Analysis of Water Consumption in Cosmetic Factories in Brazil.- Chapter 18. Analysis of the Results of Lean Manufacturing Implementation in a Metal-Mechanical Company from Panambi - Rio Grande do Sul - BRAZIL.- Part 4: Knowledge and Project Management.- Chapter 19. Design of a Model for the Analysis of Hidden Costs in International Projects. Application to the Energy Sector.- Chapter 20. The Portfolio Management and In uence in Projects of Decisions.- Chapter 21. USA, Europe and Pharmerging Countries: a Panorama of Pharmaceutical Innovation.