Raúl Rodríguez-Rodríguez: Full professor in Operations Management at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is a full member of the Research Center of Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP) since 2005, having worked on several Spanish Government and European Projects (i.e. he has been PI of FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP-Knownet, Ref. 324408), being part of the Research Unit of Performance Engineering and Management within Organisations. He has published about 120 research papers in a number of leading journals and in several international conferences, mainly in the area of decision-making, information systems and operations management. His key research topics include Performance Management Systems, Supply Chain Management and strategic IS. ORCID: 0000-0001-5133-7023.
Yves Ducq: He is a specialist in the domain of Enterprise Modelling (EM)), BPM (Business Process Management), Enterprise Interoperability (EI), System Performance Evaluation and Implementation of Indutrie 4.0 solutions. He is the main author of the GRAI Model and the GRAI Integrated Methodology (GIM) since the 1980s and has managed more than twenty important European and International projects during the last 30 years in his competence domains (Pirelli, British Aerospace, Iberia, Siemens, Scania, Aérospatiale, ALCATEL, SNECMA, Schlumberger, Lyonnaise des Eaux, INTEROP-NoE but also with several SMEs …). He has published more than 300 articles and four books.
Ramona-Diana Leon: Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In the past years, she was involved in several projects about social media, knowledge management and quality management. She published several books, book chapters and articles in these fields and as a full member of the International Association for Knowledge Management, she collaborated with academics and managers from Romania, Spain, Italy, Greece, and UK. Her main research interests include: enterprise social networks, early warning systems, knowledge sharing and collaborative innovation. ORCID: 0000-0003-3610-0751.
David Romero: Senior Research Scientist and Scientific Project Manager at the Center for Innovation in Design and Technology of the Tecnológico de Monterrey University in Mexico, as well as National Academia Representative and Coach for the Regional Secretariat of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) – Mexico. His research interests include: Circular Manufacturing, Service Engineering and Product-Service Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems & Human Systems, Advanced Production Management Systems, Green Virtual Enterprises, and Technology and Engineering Management. He is a member of the Society of Collaborative Networks, the IFAC TC5.3 on Enterprise Integration and Networking, the IFIP WG5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems, the IFIP WG5.12 on Architectures for Enterprise Integration, the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society, and the IEEE Internet of Things Community. Furthermore, he is an Agenda Contributor at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Council on “Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Production”, and a World Manufacturing Forum (WMF) Ambassador. He has published more than 100 journal and international conference articles and serves at different editorial and scientific committees and advisory boards in academia, industry, and government in the disciplines of business and industrial engineering. Nowadays he focuses on promoting the concepts of the "Operator 4.0" and "Digital Lean Manufacturing"; father of both terms.
