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MIRABELLI Giovanni
Born in Rende January 24, 1963, he received his degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Calabria, with a specialization in electrical engineering. From 2004 to 2014 he was a researcher at the Mechanical Engineering Department at UNICAL. Since 2014 he has been Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering at UNICAL. The main research areas investigated include work safety, food safety and traceability, ergonomics and design of plant layout.
Selected Publications

Pizzuti, T (Pizzuti, Teresa); Mirabelli, G (Mirabelli, Giovanni); Grasso, G (Grasso, Giovanni); Paldino, G (Paldino, Giulia) MESCO (MEat Supply Chain Ontology): An ontology for supporting traceability in the meat supply chain: FOOD CONTROL Volume: 72 Pages: 123-133 DOI: 10.1016/ foodcont.2016.07.038 Part: FEB 2017
Pizzuti T; Giallombardo G; Mirabelli G An optimization model for storage and distribution planning of perishable products. In “Building bridges between researchers and practitioners”. Book of Proceedings of the International Joint Conference - CIO-ICIEOM-IIE-AIM (IJC 2016),“XX Congreso de Ingeniería de Organización” XXII International Conference on Industrial ... ISBN:978-84-8081-517-8
T. Pizzuti, G. Mirabelli, The Global Track&Trace System for Food: general framework and functioning principles, Journal of Food Engineering 159 (2015) 16-35
T. Pizzuti, G. Mirabelli, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, F. Goméz-Gonzaléz, Food Track & Trace ontology for helping the food traceability control, Journal of Food Engineering 120 (2014) 17-30

Lines of Research

• Safety and Human reliability
The study of safety aspects has considered various productive sectors and a wide range of business in order to identify and analyze the risk factors and to defi ne operational procedures for the prevention of accidents and working diseases.
• Ergonomics and workplace hygiene 
The objective of the research has led to establish methods, procedures and simple to use criteria for the design, implementation and management of workstations. The main ergonomic standards analyzed are: the NIOSH 91 method, the OWAS method, the Burandt-Schultetus Hand Arm Force Analysis, the LIFT analysis, the RULA method, the MTM method and the MOST method.
• Production and logistics management 
The research area refers to plant layout design, short-term production planning, scheduling of orders under uncertainty, inventory management considering variation of internal parameters.
• Food Safety and Supply Chain Traceability
The research analyzes the organization of the supply chain, identifi es the companies that are part of it, evaluates the production and logistics aspects, researches the vulnerabilities and suggest possible technical, procedural and/or organizational solutions.

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