Logistics node simulator as an enabler for supply chain development: innovative portainer simulator as the assessment tool for human factors in port cranes

This paper focuses on the development of a new generation of interoperable simulators of micro activities in logistics node; the proposed example focuses on a real-time full-scope virtual simulator of port activities able to simulate the activities of whole port by having ships, cranes, trucks, containers interoperating in a federation. The technologies adopted in terms of architecture and installation were very effective in creating a mobile laboratory open to further extension by online interoperation with other simulators and with biomedical devices for assessing human capabilities within this framework. This approach allows us to face the existing challenges in extending the capabilities of logistics node over their current capabilities limited by technological and human factors.