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A testing procedure of a digital application for safety improvement in a beverage plant

  • a Giuseppe Vignali  ,
  • a Nicolas Guareschi  ,
  • a Letizia Tebaldi  ,
  • b Francesco Longo  ,
  • c Luciano Di Donato   
  • c Alessandra Ferraro  ,
  • a Eleonora Bottani  
  • a Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
  • b DIMEG, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, Cubo 44C, third floor via p bucci, Rende, Cosenza, 87036, Italy
  • c Innovazioni Tecnologiche e Sicurezza degli Impianti, Prodotti Ed Insediamenti Antropici, Istituto Nazionale Assicurazione Contro Gli Infortuni sul Lavoro, Roma, Lazio, Italy
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Vignali G., Guareschi N.,Tebaldi L., Longo F., Di Donato L., Ferraro A., Bottani E. (2019). A testing procedure of a digital application for safety improvement in a beverage plant. Proceedings of the 5th International Food Operations & Processing Simulation Workshop (FOODOPS 2019), pp. 9-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2019.foodops.002
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Abstract

Safety at the workplace is one of the most relevant issues for companies, due to the high number of accidents happening every year, some of which even deadly. Despite that, this number is decreasing thanks to continuous research and to an increasing application of safety procedures and devices. In line with that, the project presented in this work intends to develop and evaluate a new solution to improve operators’ safety, at a reasonable cost (including adoption and use). The usage of wearable systems (smart-glasses and smart- watches) will improve the efficacy of the solutions previously tested on mobile devices like tablets and  smartphones. Although no new devices were developed,  the project required the creation of a new software tool, in which a great amount of information was inserted to allow its correct functioning. The main aim of this work is to create a testing procedure to evaluate the impact of this solutions on the employee’s safety. This is extremely important to demonstrate the efficacy of new industry 4.0 applications.

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