Papers by Romeo Bandinelli
Purpose. This paper aims to define the overall Made in Italy perception within the on-line and of... more Purpose. This paper aims to define the overall Made in Italy perception within the on-line and off-line contexts. Particularly, authors attempt to consider three main aspects; the first one regards the key product categories linked to the Made in Italy production; the second aspect concerns the key characteristics linked to the Italy Country Image and the overall sentiment related to it. Finally, the research aims at identifying whether Italian brands enhance their Country of Origin (COO) image or not.
The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
The implementation of a PLM is a great process of change, representing a critical phase due to th... more The implementation of a PLM is a great process of change, representing a critical phase due to the inertia that characterizes some organizations. This evidence especially occurs in industry new to PLM, such as the fashion one, where a lack of clear guidelines for implementation significantly increases the risk of failure of that process. In addition, an adequate project management approach that actively includes final users during the whole process will avoid the mismatch between outcomes and requirements. To support an efficient and effective introduction of PLM, it is then important to define a structured implementation method that involves all interested users from the early stages. A literature review has been conducted as preliminary step to investigate if bottom-up approaches to PLM implementation in fashion industry have already been studied. Based on the evidences from literature review, a framework was therefore defined, detailing the step-by-step procedure to follow for ef...
International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how luxury Italian fashion companies manage... more Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how luxury Italian fashion companies manage the replenishment process, and how they leverage supply chain (SC) to be able to match supply and demand of fashion products. Design/methodology/approach – Literature review was the first step performed; then, a case study research has been conducted in order to have a comprehensive view of the real context of luxury Italian fashion companies concerning merchandise planning and replenishment processes. After the sample was individuated, a questionnaire has guided the interviews and then data have been collected. Analysing data has concerned a primary case analysis and then cross-case patterns have been searched. Finally, several variables coherent to the aim of the study have been pinpointed and a framework has been designed. Findings – The paper provides a characterization of the luxury Italian fashion industry concerning merchandise planning constraints and the replenishment processes...
IFIP Advances in Information and …, Jan 1, 2011
The management of the processes related to proposal, design, construction, start-up, operation an... more The management of the processes related to proposal, design, construction, start-up, operation and decommissioning of industrial plants, in few words the whole Plant Lifecycle, are usually performed each by means of a specialised information tool, because of the peculiarities of ...
International Journal of …, Jan 1, 2004
this paper proposes a methodology to improve the time-performance of distributed simulation based... more this paper proposes a methodology to improve the time-performance of distributed simulation based on the HLA architecture using commercial simulators. In the context of industrial production, for instance, the timing of information transfer among federate simulators becomes an important issue whenever production control and scheduling are very closely linked. In such a context the re-scheduling of an existing production plan, as determined for instance by a rush order, is usually decided upon at the control level in the hierarchy of federates; however it cannot be communicated to the different federate plants until a status/parameter update is instantiated and established. The study presented in this paper specifically focuses on the impact of machine failures at the federate plant level. The random nature of the failure processes associated to the machines of the federate production plants makes it difficult to establish when such occurrences may take place: therefore the events driving the exchange of state variables among federates cannot be set with certainty ahead of time. This research proposes a one-off methodology to statistically determine when critical events, such as machine failures, are likely to occur. Based on such information it is possible to intersperse additional events among those associated to the usual production/process milestones and thus significantly reduce delays in the transfer of critical status parameters among federates and waste of simulated time. Applications are presented to relate these time-performance benefits to measurable improvements in production performance.
this paper proposes a methodology to improve the time-performance of distributed simulation based... more this paper proposes a methodology to improve the time-performance of distributed simulation based on the HLA architecture using commercial simulators. In the context of industrial production, for instance, the timing of information transfer among federate simulators becomes an important issue whenever production control and scheduling are very closely linked. In such a context the re-scheduling of an existing production plan, as determined for instance by a rush order, is usually decided upon at the control level in the hierarchy of federates; however it cannot be communicated to the different federate plants until a status/parameter update is instantiated and established. The study presented in this paper specifically focuses on the impact of machine failures at the federate plant level. The random nature of the failure processes associated to the machines of the federate production plants makes it difficult to establish when such occurrences may take place: therefore the events driving the exchange of state variables among federates cannot be set with certainty ahead of time. This research proposes a one-off methodology to statistically determine when critical events, such as machine failures, are likely to occur. Based on such information it is possible to intersperse additional events among those associated to the usual production/process milestones and thus significantly reduce delays in the transfer of critical status parameters among federates and waste of simulated time.
Proceedings of the 18th …, Jan 1, 2004
This paper illustrates the use of statistical inference techniques to improve the scheduling perf... more This paper illustrates the use of statistical inference techniques to improve the scheduling performance of a distributed simulation and scheduling tool based on the XLA-RTI architecture. Specifically, the timing of federation synchronisation events can be customised according to the local failure characteristics of the physical system so as to reduce the necessary delays in information and communications exchange among federates. Ultimately, these improvements can only be beneficial if they have measurable effects on the production performance of the physical system. The paper refers to an industrial application case to measure the production benefits that may be accrued by implementing the proposed methodology. The application context is the manufacturing and installation of railways switch point assemblies, which, to a large extent, are custom-made products in that they come in a multiplicity of assembly types and ultimately need to be customised to fit the specific application requirements.
This paper illustrate a proposal of a framework for production plants remote control. The archite... more This paper illustrate a proposal of a framework for production plants remote control. The architecture has been developed under HLA-RTI environment, with the use of <next event> as paradigm for time management. XML as been used as the formalism for both information coding and non-persistent data-structuring, while persistent objects are been represented as HLA objects. The proposal framework can be
... R. Matthews (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), and Megha Gupta (The Unive... more ... R. Matthews (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), and Megha Gupta (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA ... Romeo Bandinelli (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy), and Sergio Terzi (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy) Sample PDF | More ...
This paper illustrates the use of statistical inference techniques to improve the scheduling perf... more This paper illustrates the use of statistical inference techniques to improve the scheduling performance of a distributed simulation and scheduling tool based on the XLA-RTI architecture. Specifically, the timing of federation synchronisation events can be customised according to the local failure characteristics of the physical system so as to reduce the necessary delays in information and communications exchange among federates. Ultimately, these improvements can only be beneficial if they have measurable effects on the production performance of the physical system. The paper refers to an industrial application case to measure the production benefits that may be accrued by implementing the proposed methodology. The application context is the manufacturing and installation of railways switch point assemblies, which, to a large extent, are custom-made products in that they come in a multiplicity of assembly types and ultimately need to be customised to fit the specific application r...
this paper proposes a methodology to improve the time-performance of distributed simulation based... more this paper proposes a methodology to improve the time-performance of distributed simulation based on the HLA architecture using commercial simulators. In the context of industrial production, for instance, the timing of information transfer among federate simulators becomes an important issue whenever production control and scheduling are very closely linked. In such a context the re-scheduling of an existing production plan, as determined for instance by a rush order, is usually decided upon at the control level in the hierarchy of federates; however it cannot be communicated to the different federate plants until a status/parameter update is instantiated and established. The study presented in this paper specifically focuses on the impact of machine failures at the federate plant level. The random nature of the failure processes associated to the machines of the federate production plants makes it difficult to establish when such occurrences may take place: therefore the events dr...
Global Fashion Management Conference, 2015
Global Fashion Management Conference, 2015
Global Fashion Management Conference, 2015
Industry and Business Analysis, 2012
... R. Matthews (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), and Megha Gupta (The Unive... more ... R. Matthews (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), and Megha Gupta (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA ... Romeo Bandinelli (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy), and Sergio Terzi (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy) Sample PDF | More ...
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2013
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2014
International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, 2015
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