Adonias Magdiel Silva Ferreira received a doctorate degree in industrial engineering from the UFBA in 2015. He is an adjunct professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the UFBA, where he also works as a researcher at the Laboratory of Integrated Production Systems in Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of UFBA and project consultant for the industrial sector. His research area is sustainable development of processes and products, and his main topic is operational research in production engineering. This includes technical and economic–financial viability, optimization and simulation of productive systems, and pattern recognition of numerical objects.