Henrique Diogo Silva

Hey!
I’m Henrique Diogo Silva
and I’m currently a researcher at INESC TEC and a Digital Media Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

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Research Interests

My research and ongoing Ph.D. work are leveraging Digital Platforms and Digital Twin technologies to disrupt the industrial sector.

In the past years, I’ve been a part of several international R&D industrial projects funded by H2020 and EIT Manufacturing programs to design, implement, and validate platforms and other information systems for several sectors/industries: machinery, manufacturing, and textile.

At my current project, the Transformer 4.0 project, I’m supporting the development of a novel digital-twin-based platform concept to allow for a disruptive approach to the manufacturing and servicing of power transformers.

I’m fascinated with technology but can’t seem to let go of the fact that intelligent, flawed, and opinionated humans have to use it.

Publications & Other Writing

In esrever chronological order:

Sectorial Data Ecosystems as Enablers for Data-driven Services for SMEs
2025 Manuscript Data ecosystems
Manuscript pending publication.
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A Boundary Crossing Perspective on Digital Industrial Platform Evolution
2023 Conference paper IEEE IEEM
2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management · IEEE
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The Design of Digital Platform Ecosystem Supporting Circular Economy
2023 Book chapter IFIP AICT
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer Nature Switzerland
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A Twin enabled Digital Industrial Platform
2023 Poster MIT Portugal Annual Conference
Conference poster on a digital-twin-based industrial platform concept.
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Knowledge-Based Engineering Design Supported by a Digital Twin Platform
2024 Book chapter IFIP AICT
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer Nature Switzerland
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A Digital Twin Platform-Based Approach to Product Lifecycle Management: Towards a Transformer 4.0
2023 Book chapter Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering · Springer International Publishing
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Digital Platforms as Enablers of Smart Product-Service Systems
2021 Book chapter IFIP AICT
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer International Publishing
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A Vision for a Platform-based Digital-Twin Ecosystem
2021 Journal article IFAC-PapersOnLine
IFAC-PapersOnLine · Elsevier
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From Digital Platforms to Ecosystems: A Review of Horizon 2020 Platform Projects
2020 Book chapter IFIP AICT
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer International Publishing
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A Digital Platform Architecture to Support Multi-Dimensional Surplus Capacity Sharing
2019 Book chapter IFIP AICT
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer International Publishing
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An Ontology Based Semantic Data Model Supporting A MaaS Digital Platform
2018 Conference paper IEEE IS
2018 International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS) · IEEE
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Projects & Grants

Transformer 4.0: Digital Revolution of Power Transformers
2020 - Ongoing MIT Portugal flagship project
"Introduce the digital transformation in power transformers where a DT, as virtual counterpart of the physical system will enable disruptive approaches for design and manufacturing"
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Towards a Digital-Twin Based, Multi-sided Market of Data-enabled Product-Services Systems
2021 - Ongoing PhD Grant
"Design and prototype a digital platform for a multi-sided market placing the Digital-Twin as the core architectural element for managing the data and information"
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M-NEST: Network for Empowering People in Added-Value Manufacturing Systems and Technologies
2020 EIT Manufacturing
"Deliver innovative courses enabling the financial exploitation of educational assets, such as learning nuggets and Training and Learning Factories"
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MANU-SQUARE: MANUfacturing ecoSystem of QUAlified Resources Exchange
2018 - 2021 H2020 RIA
"Creates a European platform-enabled ecosystem acting as a virtual marketplace, bringing available manufacturing capacity closer to production demand (...)"
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3GEnergy
2017 - 2018 National project
"(...) development of a highly innovative global energy efficiency management platform, targeting medium and large facilities in both the industry and service sectors."
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Conferences & Other Activities

  1. MIT Portugal 2023 Annual Conference Panel speaker: Transformer 4.0: Digital Revolution of Power Transformers
  2. Guest Lecture @ MIT: Digital Industrial Platforms as Infrastructure for Interorganizational Ecosystems
    • 2023 class of System Design and Management
  3. Hackathon Mentor: U.Porto 2022 Hackathon in “Digital Media and Health Communication and Literacy
  4. Hackathon Mentor: EMERGENCE @ U.Porto 2022 Hackathon - Dital Media Science Communication Hackathon
  5. Panel chair: PRO-VE 2021 - 22nd IFIP / SOCOLNET Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises
  6. Hackathon Mentor: EMERGENCE@Açores 2021 Hackathon - Dital Media Science Communication Hackathon
  7. Organization Committee: DMDS 2021/22 - Digital Media Doctoral Symposium && Reboot Fest 2021 - New Media and Digital Art Festival
  8. Hackathon Researcher Lead: Hackathon Douro & Porto 2021
  9. Organization Committee: DMDS 2021 - Digital Media Doctoral Symposium
  10. Hackathon Participation: [email protected] 2021 Hackathon - Dital Media Science Communication Hackathon
  11. Doctoral Program in Digital Media Accompanying Committee