Knowledge-Based Concurrent Product Development Process Management System and Its Implementation

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peisi Zhong ◽  
Qingliang Zeng ◽  
Mei Liu ◽  
Dazhi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Design History ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Railway Rolling Stock

Concurrent engineering is a systematic approach to integrate concurrent design and its related processes. Its objective is to shorten the product development cycle, improve the product quality and reduce the product cost. Product development process management is one of the key enabled technologies for the implementation of concurrent engineering. The main purpose of the study on knowledge-based concurrent product development process management is to explore the theory and methods on process modeling, monitoring, analysis, reengineering and so on, and to integrate the knowledge processing into the lifecycle of the product development including mainly the acquisition and usage of design history and domain knowledge. Modeling the product development process is the first step of product development process management. A method for the knowledge-based multi-view process modeling is present. The rule-based mechanism for process implementation is discussed. The method for acquisition of design history and domain knowledge is presented. The multi-agent based architecture of knowledgebased concurrent product development process management system is developed and used successfully during the life cycle of a new type of railway rolling stock development in a Chinese enterprise, QQHR Railway Rolling Stock Company.

Method of Product Development Process Analysis and Reengineering for Concurrent Engineering

2004 ◽  
Vol 471-472 ◽  
pp. 770-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.Z. Liu ◽  
M. Liu ◽  
Pei Si Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Stock Company ◽  
Railway Rolling Stock

Product development process analysis and reengineering are the basic for enterprise to put CE into practice. The characteristics of concurrent PDP are analyzed and compared with the traditional PDP. The basic requirements, methods and steps of PDP analysis, improvement and reengineering for CE are presented. The process model for PDP analysis and reengineering is built. According to the actual PDP in Qiqihar Railway Rolling Stock Company in China, the process for the grain rolling stock development is analyzed and improved, and the result is satisfactory.

Corba Based System Integration of Product Development Process Management for Concurrent Engineering

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinmin Zhao ◽  
Junjun Wu ◽  
Jihong Liu ◽  
Guodong Jin ◽  
Jibin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
System Integration ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Application Systems

Abstract The product development process management for concurrent engineering (CE) is the emerging technology to reduce the time to market for new product. The product development environment for CE is remarkably characterized by the heterogeneity and distribution. So, it is highly important to build a robust, object-oriented information infrastructure to allow the interoperability between the distributed application systems for realizing system integration of product development process management for CE (CEPDPM). CORBA provides the best technical solution for building such an infrastructure. In this paper, a CORBA based architecture of CEPDPMS integration is described. Herein, a set of interoperable objects includes process management, product data management, and resource management, organization management systems and some design tools. How these objects are encapsulated into CORB A/ORB bus and provided as shared services is detailed by analyzing their granularity wrapped and defining their interfaces in DDL. A prototype implementation of CEPDPMS is outlined.

Study on Knowledge Based Complex Product Development Process Management System

2011 ◽  
Vol 403-408 ◽  
pp. 2870-2873
Author(s):  
Shu Hui Ding ◽  
Pei Si Zhong ◽  
Hai Xia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Management System ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Knowledge Process ◽  
Complex Product ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Net Framework

According to the study of process management and knowledge management, knowledge based complex product development process management system is built, which is used to control the product development process with the supporting of knowledge. Process management system and knowledge management system are studied, and its prototype is developed on the platform of .NET Framework. Knowledge based process management system can provide necessary knowledge for designers, which can decrease errors, improve intellectualization and efficiency.

scholarly journals APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF TARGET PROCESS MODULE SETS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
Albert Albers ◽  
Miriam Wilmsen ◽  
Kilian Gericke
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Quality ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Adaptive Processes

AbstractThe implementation of agile frameworks, such as SAFe, in large companies causes conflicts between the overall product development process with a rigid linkage to the calendar cycles and the continuous agile project planning. To resolve these conflicts, adaptive processes can be used to support the creation of realistic target-processes, i.e. project plans, while stabilizing process quality and simplifying process management. This enables the usage of standardisation methods and module sets for design processes.The objective of this contribution is to support project managers to create realistic target-processes through the usage of target-process module sets. These target-process module sets also aim to stabilize process quality and to simplify process management. This contribution provides an approach for the development and application of target-process module sets, in accordance to previously gathered requirements and evaluates the approach within a case study with project managers at AUDI AG (N=21) and an interview study with process authors (N=4) from three different companies.

Managing concurrent execution of multiple activities in product development process

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-221
Author(s):  
Gyesik Oh ◽  
Yoo Suk Hong
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Quantitative Model ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Concurrent Execution

Many companies adopt concurrent engineering in their product-development projects in order to reduce time to market. Concurrent engineering requires careful management, since the uncertainty of transferred information leads to rework and renders a development process complex. Most of the existing studies on concurrent engineering have analyzed overlapping between two activities. The present study expanded the research scope by modeling the developmental process of the concurrent execution of multiple activities as the result of management decisions, the overlapping ratio, and the information transfer frequency. When multiple activities are overlapped, it is more difficult to model a development process, since the uncertainty of cascaded information has impacts on many activities. The quantitative model developed in the present study provides insights into the uncertainty of information and the product-development process. Based on the generalized process model for multiple-activity overlapping, the optimal decision to minimize project duration was considered. As a solution to the dilemma of the high computational burden of considering all feasible decision sets, this paper proposes a myopic heuristic. The project management heuristic proposed in this paper is intended to assist managers in the decision-making process, as well as reducing the intermediate deadlines in project main plan.

Lean Value Creation in the Product Development Process With the Principle of Set Based Concurrent Engineering

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianyi Cai ◽  
Theodor Freiheit
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
A Value ◽  
Feasible Solutions ◽  
Functional Teams

Lean value creation requires a value-adding network of lean activities across the whole Product Development Process (PDP). Management needs to allocate resources and properly control the process to create the value that stakeholders desire. Leading companies in industry have successfully applied Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (SBCE) for lean PDP. In SBCE, designers propose several feasible solutions and develop them relatively independently and in parallel, and then gradually narrow the sets of solutions based on updated project feedback at each stage-gate design review. As an important lean concept with many advantages, SBCE has constraints that can jeopardize lean value creation. For instance, it is unclear how resources are allocated to each stage, different functional teams, and different value creation activities related to different kinds of value, which can cause waste of talent, time, and money. This paper focuses on how resources can be allocated to SBCE by viewing product development activities as value creation cells. Under management control, lean value creation activities use knowledge and other resources to produce valuable design solutions. A mathematical feedback control model is proposed to illustrate how management can invest resources for the value creation process. This model can be used to explore resource allocation to functional teams and processes according to a holistic value creation project development strategy and the optimal creation of lean value.

The Downstream Digital Mock-Up: A New Concept to Support Virtual Reality Applications in the Aeronautic Industry

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Drieux ◽  
J.-C. Le´on ◽  
N. Chevassus ◽  
F. Guillaume
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
The Other ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Engineering Organizations ◽  
Development Phases

The Digital Mock-Up (DMU), which is a comprehensive numerical model describing the final manufactured product, is today widely used in the industry (like the automotive and aeronautic industries) to support the concurrent engineering organizations and processes. On the other hand, simulation helps in the development of a product for design decision making or validation purposes. It allows to determine, with the appropriate level of accuracy, the behavior of the future product under a specific environment or set of exterior actions. Virtual Reality (VR) applications are simulations where the focus is on immersion and interaction with the product. However, there is still lacks in the integration of simulation within the product development phases. In particular the link between the DMU and the numerical models for simulation in the large is often hardly achieved. For some types of simulation, it is even inexistent. In this paper, we propose a new object, the Downstream Digital Mock-Up (DDMU), based on a polyhedral representation, and we show that it can be a support for the integration of a subset of simulation activities within the product development process by making the link between the DMU and these simulations. In the particular case of VR, we show that this object is particularly adapted. One particularity of the DDMU is to be prepared for a specific target application, defined by its objectives and the context in which it is immersed.

scholarly journals The Impact of Concurrent Engineering Strategy on New Compex Product Development Process in Organization: An Empirical Study of Manufacturing and Service Industry in Malaysia

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amran Rasli ◽  
Saif ur Rehman Khan ◽  
Tan Owee Kowang
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Product Development Process

Taking into account the customers, supplier and organization involvement in the new product development (NPD), this article focuses on the synthesis, evaluation, and selection of various sub-factors of concurrent engineering involved in new product development process. The aim of this study was to provide the reliability and validity of six sub-factors of concurrent engineering model of the 49-item questionnaire and to analyze its association with concurrent engineering and new product development process in a sample of 35 manufacturing and services organization located in Johor, Malaysia. Methods: A self reported survey was conducted in 35 manufacturing and services organization located in Johor, Malaysia. Results: Appropriate internal consistencies of the six sub-scales: customers relationship, team development, continuity, tools and techniques, suppliers involvement and corporate focus and their association with concurrent engineering, were obtained. Zero-order correlation and regressions analysis replicated the theoretically assumed structure of the effective concurrent engineering (ECE). Evidence of criterion validity was obtained from cross-correlations of the scales and from their linear and multiple regression analysis. Finally, all seven scales were associated with a highly significant ratio of concurrent engineering as predicted by fundamental theory. Conclusion: Based on the results of this study the seven version of the model, questionnaire is considered a reliable and valid instrument for measuring association in developing the new complex product development process.

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