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  • Maintenance and sustainability enhancing industrial efficiency (January-June Issue)
    Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024)

    This EASI issue takes readers on an engaging journey to the forefront of engineering and applied sciences, with a particular focus on optimizing industrial processes and promoting sustainability. The featured articles delve into critical topics ranging from climate variable modeling for enhanced energy efficiency (Vanegas Zabala et al., 2024) to implementing reliability-centered maintenance practices to reduce costs and boost productivity (Aguilera-Órdenes & Amador-Cáceres, 2024).

    Furthermore, the journal explores the intersection of industry and society, analyzing how initiatives like forest landscape restoration (Bautista-Espinoza et al., 2024) can yield environmental, social, and economic benefits. Additionally, Reyes-Aliaga et al. (2024) provide an updated perspective on industrial market segmentation, a highly relevant topic for businesses seeking differentiation and growth in an increasingly competitive landscape. Finally, Fajardo-Pruna et al. (2024) showed how technology can improve safety in adverse work environments. Their mechatronic device offers a practical solution to protect worker health.

    Collectively, the articles in this issue demonstrate the diversity and dynamism of industrial engineering research, offering valuable tools and insights to address current and future industrial challenges. Readers are invited to delve into these articles and share their comments and perspectives.

  • Technology and sustainability in process management (July-December Issue)
    Vol. 2 No. 3 (2023)

    This issue delves into process management topics, drawing upon varied applications of machine learning, sustainability, occupational health, and market analysis for industrial and societal applications. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Acosta-Guzmán, I. et al. (2023) developed a Natural Language Processing (NLP) prototype in Python to analyze the experiences of infected individuals in Ecuador, highlighting common symptoms and presenting a highly effective preliminary multi-label classification model. In the energy sector, Valcárcel, A. et al. (2023) address the transition to renewable energy sources with a focus on lightning protection in photovoltaic parks, proposing comprehensive solutions. Haro, A. et al. (2023) focus on the efficiency of nitrogen utilization in ruminant animals, proposing physical and chemical treatments to improve ruminal protein degradation. Reyes-Aliaga, C. et al. (2023) examine aspects of B2B industrial market segmentation, emphasizing the need for a continuous approach in service companies. Another paper by Amador, B. et al. (2023) reveals how in-house maintenance management in aquaculture results in more efficient and cost-effective management compared to outsourcing services. Finally, Rodríguez, M. et al. (2023) investigate the impact of ergonomic noise on the health of workers in educational centers, highlighting the relationship between noise exposure and various diseases, underscoring the need to address this issue in the occupational realm. These works represent a significant step towards healthy and sustainable management practices.

  • Energy efficiency and Sustainability (Special Issue, December)
    Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023)

    This special issue of EASI: Engineering and Applied Sciences in Industry is a compilation of papers presented in a webinar on Energy efficiency and Sustainability. The webinar was organized by COMSOC-IEEE Section Ecuador (Guayaquil) and the Faculty of Industrial Engineering of the University of Guayaquil. Leiva, A. & Rivas, G. (2023) analyze an innovative off-grid solar system that reduces minimum energy demand and investment compared to traditional systems. Rodríguez-Gómez, B. (2023) explores the importance of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to address social and economic challenges. This analysis promotes circularity in the economy and provides a comprehensive assessment of energy systems. Morocho, L. (2023) also discusses the potential of biogas and biomethane as clean energy sources, highlighting their historical origin and current use as vital alternatives. Quiroga-Pérez, W., et al. (2023) highlights hydroesterification to obtain biodiesel, achieving high conversions with an efficient experimental design. On the other hand, Casteleiro-Roca, José-Luis et al. (2023) address the concept of gasification, presenting different types of gasifiers and practical examples, while Jove, E., et al. (2023) present a topology for designing power systems for modular and mobile installations, responsible for monitoring water quality. Finally, Agulia-León, J. & Lucero-Tenorio, M. (2023) review the importance of bio-inspired controllers in renewable energy converters and solutions for the design of power systems in mobile installations for water quality monitoring. These works represent significant advances in the transition to a sustainable future, addressing various critical areas in the energy and environmental field.

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    Applications in Education and Sustainability Management in Industry 4.0 (January-June Issue)
    Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023)

    The papers published in this issue bring together applications aimed at society, from the perspective of Education 4.0 and sustainable process management, integrating advanced Industry 4.0 technologies. The issue opens with the work of Fajardo-Pruna et al. (2023), who present a cyber-physical model of an IoT-based cutting machine, with the aim of optimizing manufacturing processes in the industry from a holistic perspective. Continuing with applications in the industry, Enríquez, F. et al. (2023) discuss the relevance of the architectural design pattern in the development processes of programs on the security, interoperability, and usability of computational systems. The aspects on which this analysis is based are essential to drive the digital transformation in industry and society. A very simple proof of this is the modular systems on which some applications are based that respond to the theory of business intelligence and educational applications. Suquisupa, A. et al. (2023) analyze the strategies implemented for waste management in industrial plants, from the perspective of collaborative management and the circular economy as a business model. Next, Andrade, G. et al. (2023) characterize milk production in indigenous populations of Ecuador, based on the study of marketing channels as an economic factor and the vulnerability of this sector of the population as a main social factor.

    Other works complement this issue from a social perspective. Santana, C. et al. (2023) analyze the factors that cause traffic accidents by applying a deductive statistical analysis, to mitigate accidents in urban cities. Pule, V. et al. (2023) who determine the causes of tobacco use, as well as the perception of the consequences of consumption in student communities, and finally, Mejía, C. et al. (2023) analyze with a descriptive approach, the factors that influence the decision to study engineering careers by women. The analysis includes the perception of gender stereotypes as one of the main factors.

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    Production and operation management: social problem solving (July-December Issue)
    Vol. 1 No. 2 (2022)

    The current EASI collection brings contributions applying concepts of industrial processes management to provide solutions for society’s demands; ranging from modeling and simulation of administration and management processes to the focused actions for driving power business to guarantee the quality of services to communities, based on supply chain sustainability.

    The research conducted by Guerrero, B., Pizarro, L., & Duarte, V. (2022) applied digital innovation to streamline administrative procedures in the basic healthcare network of Chile. The idea deals with the implementation of learning algorithms for ordering data to enhance medical appointment assignments. Another interesting application came from Fernández, J., Alfonso, A. & Ramos, R. (2022), who proposed an adaptive model for demand forecasting; the equations include trend and seasonality parameters. Subsequently, Pilacuán,L., Salmón, B. & Gallegos, D. (2022) presented a macro predictive model to evaluate the infectious disease control policies in countries of South America, based on indicators describing the infection evolution.

    Hidalgo-Crespo, J., Bautista-Espinosa, H. & Oviedo, J. (2022) revised the plan to enhance the business system of the electric power company to provide service, and preventive and corrective actions to finally meet the needs of most isolated communities in Peru, from the viability, sustainability, and scalability perspective. Similarly, Rosabal-Palma, B. & Medel-González, F. (2022) gathered data and techniques to improve the quality and time management of the model printing process in Graphic Arts companies in Cuba, based on advanced analytics to improve performance and outcomes.

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    Internet of Things and Communication Technologies: solutions for Business and Society (January-June Issue)
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

    This issue bring together applications of ICTs and IIoT in the business and social context, this research area is still having a crowd of ongoing research projects. In this opportiunity, researchs allows students to pursue their interests and be part of mixed disciplinary research groups.

    In post-pandemic times, numerous environmental factors  affect the health and well-being of employees. Palacios et al. (2022) shows a low-cost sensor network to monitor environmental conditions
    in indoor environments. Ronquillo et al. (2022)  describes a smart architecture that makes trash collection easier. Meanwhile, Cruz, Parrales & Zambrano (2022) discuss about factors leading digital technology supporting HRM in businesses and organizations, and the benefits of work-related communication technology use.

    Suppoting social applications, readers can find the strategy proposed by Ávila, J., Pilacuán, L. & Valenzuela, K. (2022) to map the virus spreads across local regions to control future epidemic outbreaks, and finally, Quinto et al. (2022) contribute with a voting solution to minimize threats within e-voting protocols.