Doctorado en Logística y Gestión de Cadenas de Suministros · 2026
Industry 4.0 and production optimization in ecuador’s rose export sector: An integrated approach
Ecuadorian flowers, particularly roses, are globally recognized for their exceptional quality, representing approximately 11% of the global flower market. Despite its economic relevance, the floriculture industry faces increasing challenges related to climate change, phytosanitary regulations, production limitations, price volatility, and intense international competition. This thesis seeks to offer the floriculture sector a new perspective oriented toward the strategic use of technological tools and process-oriented applications to support producers in making better-informed decisions that contribute to the long-term sustainability and competitiveness of the business.
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- Preliminariesp. 8
- Introductionp. 8
- Research Objective100
- Structure and Organization of the thesisp. 9
- Overview of publication outputsp. 10
- The Role of Industry 4.0 in the Export Flower Industry13
- Introductionp. 8
- Systematic Literature Reviewp. 20
- Exploratory surveys and interviewsp. 22
- Resultsp. 23
- Findings from Literature Reviewp. 23
- 2.3.1.1 IoT and WSNsp. 25
- 2.3.1.2 Survey findings and analysisp. 27
- Research Agendap. 31
- Conclusionp. 32
- Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing processp. 33
- degree days curves: a case study in Ecuador37
- Introductionp. 8
- 3.2 Background on rose productionp. 41
- Literature review of math models in crop planning and harvestingp. 44
- A Rose Production Modelp. 50
- Notationp. 50
- Model Formulationp. 52
- An illustrative real casep. 53
- Computational experience and analysisp. 54
- Data collectionp. 54
- Model resultsp. 55
- Sensitivity Analysisp. 58
- Managerial insightsp. 64
- Conclusionsp. 64
- Conclusions and Future Researchp. 66
- Table 1.1. Outputs of this research…………………………………………………………………………………11
- Table 3. Literature Synthesis: applied technologies, main findings, and methodologies……………………….…23
- Table 1. Agricultural Harvesting Models…………………………………………………….……………………45
- Table 2. Results Maria Bonita Farm-2021 (Business as usual) …...………………………………………………55
- Figure 1.1. Thesis Structure…………………………………………………………………………………………10
- Fig.3 Technologies Applied to Productivity in Flower Crops………………………………………………………28
- Fig.5 Conceptual framework for the digital transformation of the floriculture activity……………………………34
- variety…………………………43
- Figure 4. Production Cycle Timeline in Maria’s Farm………………………………………………58
- Figure 6. Overstock (dumps) and shortages vs minimums’ changes ……………………………………………. …60
- Figure 10. Overstock (dumps) and shortages vs production price variations………………………………………63