Days: Thursday, October 1st Friday, October 2nd
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This opening moment welcomes participants to SUSTECH R3, introducing the conference’s purpose, key themes and ambitions while setting the stage for two days of knowledge sharing, discussion and collaboration.
This session introduces the PRODUTECH R3 Agenda, highlighting its vision, strategic objectives and collaborative approach to driving innovation, sustainability and competitiveness across the Portuguese manufacturing ecosystem.
| 09:40 | The Produtech R3 Agenda (abstract) |
This session explores how strategic intelligence can support the Production Technologies Industry in understanding change, anticipating future developments, and defining informed strategic priorities. Bringing together the FTP Observatory, international market intelligence, and the Innovation Roadmap 2026–2036, the session combines continuous monitoring, market analysis, and technological foresight. Together, these initiatives provide an integrated perspective on emerging trends, global opportunities, and future innovation trajectories, strengthening the ecosystem’s capacity to anticipate change and make better-informed strategic decisions.
| 10:00 | Observatório da FTP: Inteligência Estratégica para a Competitividade e Transformação da Fileira (abstract) |
| 10:20 | Mercados Globais para a FTP: Inteligência de Mercado para a Internacionalização e o Crescimento (abstract) |
| 10:40 | Roadmap de Inovação da FTP 2026–2036: Antecipar e Orientar a Transformação da Fileira (abstract) |
This session focuses on translating strategic intelligence into concrete capabilities and instruments for industrial transformation. The presentations address four complementary dimensions of change: the adoption and strategic use of Artificial Intelligence, the transformation and maturity of family businesses, the reduction of context costs associated with professional training, and the development of new financial instruments for the FTP. Together, these initiatives illustrate how identified challenges and opportunities can be converted into practical mechanisms that strengthen technological, organisational, human, and financial capabilities across the industrial ecosystem.
| 11:30 | Inteligência Artificial na FTP: Adoção, Capacidades e Transformação Industrial (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Empresas Familiares e o Cluster das Tecnologias da Produção (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Custos de Contexto da Formação Profissional (abstract) |
| 12:15 | Criação de Fundos Estruturantes para a FTP (abstract) |
This session explores material, process and performance challenges in additive manufacturing, with applications ranging from circular polymer feedstocks to advanced multi-material and medical solutions and addresses technologies and experimental approaches for more sustainable and resilient energy systems.
| 14:30 | Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing for Medical Devices: Balancing Mechanical Performance and Patient Comfort (abstract) |
| 14:50 | Overcoming Challenges in Thermoplastic Polyurethane Additive Manufacturing - Characterisation, Process Stability and Performance (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Cryogenic Energy Storage Technologies for Decarbonized and Sustainable Industrial Systems: A Comprehensive Review (abstract) |
This session showcases data-driven and AI-based approaches to industrial quality and process improvement, including predictive control, time-series modelling and computer vision for defect detection.
| 15:30 | Data-Driven Time-Series Model Selection for Process Monitoring in Plastic Bag Manufacturing: An ARIMA/SARIMAX Comparison (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Predictive Quality Control of Sealing Integrity in Food Packaging Using Temperature-Based Supervised Learning (abstract) |
| 16:10 | Driving Forward Defects Classification with Computer Vision: A Case Study (abstract) |
This session examines how AI and advanced information architectures can support industrial knowledge management, information retrieval and decision-making through vision systems, RAG and semantic technologies.
| 15:30 | Beyond Standard RAG: A Custom Architecture for Improved Document Question Answering (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Adaptive Semantic Retrieval for Life Cycle Inventory: A Hybrid Architecture Integrating Fuzzy String Matching, RAG, and LLM Fallback (abstract) |
| 16:10 | AI-Based Vision Systems for Knowledge Preservation in Cork Stopper Production (abstract) PRESENTER: Manuel Lagarto |
This session explores practical pathways towards circularity and sustainability, addressing resource valorization, consumer behaviour, sustainable materials and innovative product and packaging solutions.
| 17:00 | Coffee capsule Reverse Vending Machine adoption and behaviour: Inside data analysis (abstract) PRESENTER: João Maurício C. |
| 17:20 | Site-specific Environmental Benefits and Constrains associated with the production of Miscanthus to Bioenergy and Particleboards in Marginal Soils (abstract) |
| 17:40 | Sustainability-Driven Packaging through Functional Integration: An Exploratory Food-Service Case Study (abstract) PRESENTER: Maria Rita Alves |
This session focuses on the human dimension of industrial transformation, exploring how digital technologies, simulation and human-centred approaches can improve interaction, acceptance and performance in future manufacturing systems.
| 17:00 | Industry 5.0: Key Factors for Human-Centricity Through Cutting-Edge Technologies (abstract) |
| 17:20 | Error Propagation in Analytical Inverse Kinematics for Human Motion Reconstruction: From Sensor Precision to Pose Accuracy (abstract) |
| 17:40 | Human-centered simulation for user acceptance prediction in manufacturing process development (abstract) |
This session concludes the first day by reflecting on its main discussions and insights, while providing a preview of the themes, activities and opportunities that will shape the second day of SUSTECH R3.
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This session addresses emerging approaches to sustainable product design and lifecycle transparency, combining ecodesign methodologies with Digital Product Passports and their application across industrial value chains.
| 10:00 | A Structured Methodology for Navigating Ecodesign Principles and Developing Product-Specific Guidelines (abstract) |
| 10:20 | THE DIGITAL PRODUCT PASSPORT (DPP) IN THE PORTUGUESE TEXTILE INDUSTRY: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF COMPANIES’ PERCEPTIONS (abstract) |
| 10:40 | Digital Battery Passport as Enablers of Sustainability and Circularity in the Lithium-Ion Battery Value Chain: Opportunities, Challenges, and EU Regulatory Alignment (abstract) |
This session brings together technological, organizational and user-centred perspectives on industrial transformation, highlighting how digitalization, sustainability and collaborative capabilities can enable more innovative and resilient industrial ecosystems.
| 11:30 | OCHER: Orchestration of Isolated Node-RED Environments for Collaborative Internet of Things Deployments (abstract) |
| 11:50 | From Strategic Challenges to Collective Capabilities: A Portfolio-Based Approach to Industrial Ecosystem Transformation in PRODUTECH R3 (abstract) PRESENTER: Jose Angelo da Costa Pinto |
| 12:10 | User-Centred Digital Ecodesign and Additive Manufacturing for Sustainable Modular Ballistic Protection (abstract) |
This special presentation highlights the conference’s highest-rated contribution, showcasing innovative research at the intersection of biotechnology, circularity and sustainable materials.
| 12:30 | Microalgae-Derived Exopolysaccharides (EPS) for Sustainable Biopolymer Films: Production, Processing, and Valorization via Wastewater-Based Cultivation (abstract) |
This closing session reflects on the main insights and outcomes of SUSTECH R3, recognizing the contributions of participants and partners while reinforcing future opportunities for collaboration, innovation and sustainable industrial transformation.