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Research Areas
Resource Management: Addresses the planning, organization, direction, control, and coordination of the resources required for and produced by the transforming processes within the sustainable production systems of goods and services of an organization.
Process Management: Addresses the planning, organization, direction, control, and coordination of operations and transforming processes of the sustainable production systems of goods and services of an organization.
These lines converge to provide a comprehensive and systemic view of sustainable production systems -the object of study of the program- through the management and interrelation of each part. It allows for demonstrating their level of sustainability, understood as the capacity of the productive system to satisfy current needs without compromising the capacity of future generations to satisfy their own needs.
In practice, this capacity is evaluated through metrics that monitor the achievement and integration of sustainability dimensions: social (jobs generated, education, etc.), economic (costs, income, investments, etc.), environmental (energy, water, emissions, etc.), political (regulation, taxes) and technological (conversion rate, learning, etc.). Consequently, the development of the research lines considers establishing and/or adopting metrics definitions for the five dimensions of sustainability, as well as their optimization, simulation, and balance, as well as developing algorithms that allow their calculation and efficient implementation in productive systems.