New Global Perspectives on Industrial Engineering and Management

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

Josefa Mula is Professor in operations management and operations research at the Universitat Politècnica de València. She is member of the scientific committee of the Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP) in which she has developed R&D Projects in the areas of industrial engineering and operations research & management science. Her key research topics include production planning and control, supply chain management and uncertainty modelling. She has published (in collaboration) more than eighty research papers in a number of leading journals. She has co-authored the books: Supply Chain Simulation: A system dynamics approach for improving performance (Springer, 2011) and Operations Research Problems: Statements and Solutions (Springer, 2014). She is editor of the Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, International Journal of Production Management and Engineering, Intelligent Industrial Systems and International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems. 
Rafael Garcia Barbastefano holds a degree in Production Engineering, and a PhD in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2002) . He is currently associate professor at the Celso Suckow da Fonseca Technological Education Centre, Brazil, in the Department of Production Engineering. He is the Scientifc Director of the Brazilian Association of Production Engineering (ABEPRO). His interests are focused on Social Network Analysis, Educational Technology, and Operations Management. 
Manuel Díaz-Madroñero is assistant professor in Operations Management and Operations Research at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and member of the Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP). He has participated in several research projects funded by the European Commission, Spanish and Valencian regional goverments and UPV. As a result, he has