Supply chain sustainability and risk management in the post-Covid context: Assessing and deploying industry 4.0 solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges Canadian manufacturers face in managing increasingly complex, multi-tiered global supply chains, including a wide rang of sustainability issues ranging from forced labor to carbon emission management. Industry 4.0 technologies – including the internet of things (IoT), blockchain, and machine learning – can potentially address these issues via enhanced transparency, predictability, and reliability. There remains, however, considerable uncertainty as to how these technologies can be deployed, integrated, and managed. This project internship will support the “Accelerating the economic recovery by building resilience in manufacturing” Open Innovation Challenge, hosted by Bonjour Startup Montréal in collaboration with Desjardins bank. Drawing on a variety of research resources and networks, the Intern will ensure that tech start-up proposals are successfully assessed and matched to Canadian manufacturers seeking solutions to their SSR challenges, helping to foster valuable partnerships between these companies.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jose Carlos Marques

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Partner:

Bonjour Startup Montreal

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Ottawa

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