The Post-Graduation Program on Production Engineering of Universidade Paulista-UNIP, represented by the coordinators of the Workshop "SUSTAINABILITY BUSINESS OPORTUNITIES AT SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SME's)", is extremely grateful to professor Luís Eduardo Velázquez Contreras (University of Sonora - Mexico) for his kind participation and valuable contribution.

Thank you the all the participants and to CONACYT and ABEPRO who have made this event possible.

We also are sincerely grateful to the staff and partners of Universidade Paulista for the aid.

Special thanks are addressed to Dr. Yugo Okida, the Vice-Rector of Post Graduation and Research of Universidade Paulista, 
Dr. Marília Ancona-Lopez, the Vice-Rector of Graduation of Universidade Paulista, and to Dr. Marina Soligo, Main Coordinator of Post Graduation and Research of Universidade Paulista, for their unconditional support.

Biagio F. Giannetti
Cecilia M.V.B. Almeida
Feni D. Agostinho
Silvia H. Bonilla

Universidade Paulista
Post-Graduation Program on Production Engineering