Costa Federica

Ricercatore

Costa Federica

Ricercatore

Federica Costa has been collaborating with the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano since 2016.

She is an Industrial Engineer from Polimi and she completed her Ph.D at Politecnico di Milano in 2020, specializing on Labour Flexibility and Production Planning and Control in non repetitive companies.

From that year, she has been working as post-doc research fellow at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, working on different research topics in the field of Operations Management, with specific concern on Operational Excellence and Sustainable Continuous Improvement, Production Planning and Control, Lean and Industry 4.0 and Lean and Green Management.

During and after the Ph.D period, Federica Costa has been lecturer and teaching assistant in courses at the Bachelor and Master of Science of Politecnico di Milano and in graduate, post graduate and executive courses at GSOM.

Moreover, she has been involved in several industrial projects, participating in defining the research problems and as the main investigator.

Since 2022 she is a Junior Assistant Professor and her main activities are:

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Pubblicazioni Selezionate

Bilancia A., Costa F., Staudacher A.P. (2025). Achieving sustainability and circular economy in the luxury fashion industry through lean practices: A systematic literature review. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 2025, 206, 111107

Ferrazzi M., Costa F., Frecassetti S., Staudacher A.P. (2025). Unlocking synergies in lean manufacturing for enhanced environmental performance: a cross-sector investigation through fuzzy DEMATEL. Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, 2025, 15, 100219

Ferrazzi M., Tortorella G.L., Li W., Costa F., Staudacher A.P. (2025). From people to Performance: Leveraging Soft lean Practiced for Environmental Sustainability in Large-Scale Production. Sustainability Switzerland, 2025, 17(9), 3955

Kassem B., Rossini M., Frecassetti S., Costa F., Portioli Staudacher A. (2024). An implementation model for socio-technical digital tools. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2024, 35(5), pp. 941-961

Fernandes N.O., Thürer M., Costa F. (2024). Work faster, Work in Parallel, or Work Overtime? An assessment of Short-Term Capacity Adjustments by Simulation. Mathematics, 2024, 12(16), 2515

Costa F., Alemsan N., Bilancia A., Tortorella G.L. and Portioli-Staudacher A. (2024). Integrating Industry 4.0 and lean manufacturing for a sustainable green transition: A comprehensive model. Journal of Cleaner Production 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142728

Presciuttini A., Cantini A., Costa F. and Portioli-Staudacher A. (2024). Machine learning applications on IoT data in manufacturing operations and their interpretability implications: A systematic literature review. Journal of Manufacturing Systems 10.1016/j.jmsy.2024.04.012

Costa F., Portioli-Staudacher A. Alemsan N. and Tortorella G.L. (2024). Readiness level assessment for lean Six Sigma implementation in the Healthcare sector. International Journal of Lean Six Sigma 10.1108/IJLSS-02-2023-0031

Kassem B., Rossini M., Costa F. and Portioli-Staudacher A. (2023). Lean monitoring: action research in manufacturing. International Journal of Lean Six Sigma 10.1007/s12063-023-00371-2

Costa F., Frecassetti S., Rossini M. and Portioli-Staudacher A. (2023). Industry 4.0 digital technologies enhancing sustainability: applications and barriers from the agriculture industry in an emerging economy. Journal of Cleaner Production doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137208

Costa F., Thürer M. and Portioli-Staudacher A. (2023). Performance Impact of Heterogeneous Labor Flexibility and Efficiency Matrices in Dual Resource Constrained Manufacturing Lines: An Assessment by Simulation. Operations Management Research doi.org/10.1007/s12063-023-00371-2

Costa, F., Kundu, K., Rossini, M., and Portioli-Staudacher, A. (2023). Comparative study of bottleneck-based release models and load-based ones in a hybrid MTO-MTS flow shop: an assessment by simulation. Operations Management Research, 16(1), 33-48 doi.org/10.1007/s12063-022-00276-6

Kundu, K., Rossini, M., and Costa, F. (2022). Implementing workload control through lean-based project in MTO-MTS environment. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management doi.org/10.1108/JMTM-05-2021-0183

Rossini M., Costa F., Tortorella G., Valvo A. and Portioli-Staudacher A. (2021). Lean Production and Industry 4.0 integration: how Lean Automation is emerging in manufacturing industry. International Journal of Production Research doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.1992031

Costa F. and Portioli-Staudacher A. (2021). Labor Flexibility integration in Workload Control in Industry 4.0 era. Operations Management Research doi.org/10.1007/s12063-021-00210-2

Rossini M., Cifone F.D., Kassem B., Costa F. and Portioli-Staudacher A. (2021). Being lean: how to shape digital transformation in the manufacturing sector. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2021, 32(9), pp. 239-259 https://doi.org/10.1108/JMTM-12-2020-0467

Tortorella G.L., Rossini M., Costa F., Portioli Staudacher A. and Sawhney R. (2021). A comparison on Industry 4.0 and Lean Production between manufacturers from emerging and developed economies. Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, 2021, 32(11-12), pp. 1249-1270 https://doi.org/10.1080/14783363.2019.1696184

Thürer M., Zhang H., Stevenson M., Costa F. and Ma L. (2020). Worker assignment in dual resource constrained assembly job shops with worker heterogeneity: an assessment by simulation. International Journal of Production Research 2020, 58(20), pp. 6336-6349 https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2019.1677963

Portioli-Staudacher A.| Costa F.| Thürer M. (2020), "The use of labour flexibility for output control in workload controlled flow shops: A simulation analysis", International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations, 11, 429-442

Kundu K.| Cifone F.| Costa F.| Portioli-Staudacher A.| Rossini M. (2020), "An evaluation of preventive maintenance framework in an Italian manufacturing company", Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering

Kassem B.| Costa F.| Portioli-Staudacher A. (2020), "JIT Implementation in Manufacturing: The Case of Giacomini SPA", Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 122, 273-281

Costa F.| Portioli-Staudacher A. (2020), "On the Way of a Factory 4.0: The Lean Role in a Real Company Project", Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 122, 251-259

Premi e riconoscimenti

IDEALeague fellowship program 2025 - Politecnico di Milano

Seeds for Interdisciplinary funds - 2025 - Department of

Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering

Servizio alla comunità

Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Lean Six Sigma

IFIP WG5.7 Advances in Production Management Systems Full member

IFIP WG5.7 Lean Thinking and Practice Special Interest Group - Co Leader