Cristina
Mora
Associate Professor of Mechanical Industrial Plants University of Bologna Core Faculty
BIO
Cristina Mora, Ing., Ph.D., graduated with honors in Management Engineering and received her PhD from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Since 2014 she is Associate Professor in the Mechanical Industrial Plants sector at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna. Since 2009 she has been the owner of the Advanced Production Systems M course and of the M Production Systems Safety module for the Master’s Degree in Management Engineering at the University of Bologna. She carries out research on the issues of planning, design, management and safety of production systems and industrial plants, with particular reference to Lean Manufacturing, Green Supply Chain Management and Ergonomic Design of production systems. The result of this research led to the writing of over 80 articles presented at national and international conferences and published in national and international journals. She works as a referee for some international magazines in the sector. She has participated in and participated in various research projects funded by public bodies and private companies on the issues of design and management of production systems according to the principles of lean production, sustainability and safety at work. From 2014 she coordinates the working group Banca delle Soluzioni, born from the collaboration between DIN and AUSL of Bologna, for the creation of a portal dedicated to the collection of Technical and technological Solutions for the elimination or reduction of risk in Confined Environments and in terms of Biomechanical overload (http://safetyengineering.din.unibo.it/banca-of-solutions). From February 2016 to June 2019 she coordinated the project for the development of the Confined Space App (CSA), the mobile application for the recognition of confined spaces and / or suspected pollution. From 2018 she is a member of the UNI Group UNI / CT 015 GL06 “Anthropometry and Biomechanics” and from 2019 she is a member of the UNI / CT 042 / GL 59 “Determination of exposure of workers to chemical agents”.
COURSES
The design (redesign) and management of these processes, measuring and controlling their sustainability and environmental impact on man and the planet, are the new challenges of modern production systems. To face this challenge, it is necessary to rethink the production chains, moving towards a logic of circularity, where waste is eliminated and the waste of a production process becomes a second raw material of a subsequent production process.
The objective of the course is to introduce models and tools useful for analysing and controlling production and logistics processes with special attention to the circular economy and sustainability throughout the life cycle of a product, from the supply of raw materials to disposal.
In this context, the course intends to pursue the following results:
– To provide students with the key concepts of circular economy and the knowledge of the main processes characterizing sustainability in operations and in the supply chain (i.e. Green Purchasing, Green Manufacturing, Design for Sustainability, Reverse Logistics, Closed-Loop Supply Chain);
– Provide students with KPIs and tools for assessing sustainability and environmental impacts along a supply chain;
– Encourage the integration of sustainability tools and KPIs with those traditionally used in the planning and management of the Supply Chain and production processes.
Sustainability and Business Innovation
