Selecting Future Development Partners Through Monitoring of Existing Collaborations

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Nass ◽  
Reiner Anderl
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Process Design ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Erp Systems ◽  
Know How ◽  
Development Partner ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Selection Of

Cross-company collaboration in product development is currently faced with major challenges because of varieties of reasons. Companies depend on acquiring the know-how for innovative future products from outside the company while the support is not limited on the product development but rather on continuous collaboration over product life cycle and consequently are planned for long term normally. These development partners have to get an early and deep read into product and process design of the company for a goal-oriented cooperation. Despite these far-reaching knowledge of the development partner about the own company, the selection of a development partners is still founded on subjective criteria or random acquaintances yet. This approach uses data from ERP systems for the business view and of PDM systems representing the technical view for the monitoring of current cooperation and development partners. It becomes possible to monitor actual collaborations continuously and targeted for their suitability and also serves to gather and analyze information in order to select suitable development partners.

Make the Most of Interoperability Along Product Life Cycle Stages: A Framework Based on Multilevel Integration

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joa˜o P. M. A. Silva ◽  
Ricardo Jardim-Golcalves ◽  
Anto´nio A. C. Monteiro ◽  
Adolfo Steiger-Garc¸a˜o
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Process Design ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Distribution Management ◽  
Delivery Times ◽  
Life Cycle Stages ◽  
Product Models ◽  
Product And Process

Within the globally scaled economy and markets, the production process is re-emerging as the value-creator activity and the main source of enterprise revenues. The worldwide growing market contributes to the increase of customers’ exigencies, in terms of both quality and delivery times. Therefore, the product itself is becoming more complex as a combination of physical components and services, and the production process conceptualization is changing, starting from market understanding, through product and process design, to operations and distribution management, often exceeding the boundaries of a single organization. According to this scenario, the activities performed along the production process should be effectively coordinated and managed within the organization and with the external partners. To accomplish it, production must converge to a single global integrated process, enabled by seamless interoperability between the already operating tools, methods and computational environments. A challenge now is how to make the most of information and knowledge interoperability along the Product Life Cycle stages. The paper contributes to this aim, proposing a standard-based methodology to re-use data and knowledge incorporated in the product models, to support collaborative engineering through a modular multilevel architecture.

Manufacturing Experience in a Design Context Enabled by a Service Oriented PLM Architecture

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amer C´atic´ ◽  
Petter Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Cost Driver ◽  
Product Cost ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Process Context

An increased competition on the product development market pushes the industry to continually improve product quality and reduce product cost. There is also a trend towards considering a products life cycle aspects including environmental sustainability. The manufacturing process is a major cost driver in the product life cycle; hence, there are many initiatives to improve manufacturability and reduce production cost. Learning from earlier projects is essential to avoid recurrence of problems and is generally realized through use of concurrent engineering and design for manufacturing (DFM). Other research provides general DFM principles which state detailed guidelines for how different geometries combined with different manufacturing processes affect component quality and cost. The real competitive edge lies however in the development and application of company specific DFM principles that are based on manufacturing experiences. To do so requires an overview of and access to the collected manufacturing experiences. The aim of this paper is to point out key enablers for efficient reuse of manufacturing experience, which is considered to contribute to lower product cost and higher product quality. A study performed at an automotive and at an aerospace engine manufacturer pointed out the apparent need and lack of reuse of manufacturing experiences in product development. Applications supporting reuse of manufacturing experience through embedded DFM knowledge in designer’s CAD system were found in the literature. The issue of integrating these applications with the enterprise environment, in order to capitalize on existing sources of manufacturing experience, is addressed with a proposed solution applying a service oriented PLM architecture. In addition, a graphical user interface visualizing the manufacturing experience in a combined product and process context was developed. The validation of these proposed and developed solutions was done through interviews and workshops. The conclusions are that visualization of manufacturing experiences in a combined product and process context provides improved understanding of how the experiences relate to each process history and that a key enabler for integration of information in heterogeneous environments is the use of standard service oriented architectures and neutral formats.

scholarly journals Mapping logistics practice using the product life cycle

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Stanley E Fawcett ◽  
Greg Magnan ◽  
Laura Birou
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Logistics Strategy ◽  
Competitive Success ◽  
Strategy Planning ◽  
Implementation Status

The dynamic nature of today's global economy places a premium on a firm's ability to anticipate and to respond to customer needs as well as changing competitive pressures. Within this environment, developing a successful logistics strategy can be critical to the firm's long-term competitive success. This paper looks at the potential for using the product life cycle (PLC) as a strategic framework in the logistics strategy planning process. Results of an empirical study that investigated the appropriate use of 43 logistics techniques across PLC stages are reported. The implementation status of the various logistics techniques is also considered.

Support of Disassembly / Reassembly Evaluation Within Total Life Cycle Modeling Through Feature Neighborhoods

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald E. Otto ◽  
Fumihiko Kimura ◽  
Ferruccio Mandorli
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Feature Models ◽  
Material Recycling ◽  
Life Cycle Stages ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
Feature Technology ◽  
Product And Process

Abstract Current research trends are extending from partially integrated product and process modeling to life cycle modeling, in order to provide a framework and methodologies based on a holistic approach for the support of sustainable product development. Within given scope we are interested to investigate, if feature technology, introduced in the late seventies and developed over the paste twenty years provides the potential, if further enhanced, to be used as a means to provide basic integration for geometry related processes and models over different product life cycle stages. In a first approach, feature neighborhoods are developed and introduced as an extension, to foster evaluation of disassembly / reassembly on grounds of feature-based product descriptions. An attempt to support product maintenance and material recycling within life cycle modeling while investigating structural dimension and limits of improved feature models as a means of geometry-based model integration.

System of System Based Sociotechnical Complexity Challenges in Product and Process Design

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulfiqar Ali-Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Process Design ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
System Level ◽  
Design System ◽  
Assembly Process ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Physical Elements

Unique characteristic of system of system based product life cycle challenges evolves different level of systems. This means the product design system and process level system consideration are very important besides the system level issues for product and process development which are part of systems of system. These core issues include the physical elements, assembly process and its related cognitive elements of component to that particular assembly and its process at Sub system level which are fundamental of System of system in holistic perspective of new product and process design. Any system level change or variety affects the next adjacent system in the same product as a member of same family of a system of system. In this paper the aspect of Hybrid electric car battery has been explored to reduce the system of system level sociotecnical complexity in product design. In this context, the affect of changeability in the assembly system level has been explored and DFA analysis and the complexity Index of the product at physical structure, assembly process and cognitive system level been discussed to draw analogy for making an understanding of similar nature of the system in platform based product and process family development.

Toward a Method for Improving Product Architecture Solutions by Integrating Designs for Assembly, Disassembly and Maintenance

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Dagman ◽  
Rikard Söderberg
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Product Architecture ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Maintenance And Repair

New customer demands and increased legislation drive business-oriented companies into new business models focusing on the entire life cycle of the product. This forces the manufacturing companies into service-oriented solutions as a compliment to the original business areas. Takata [1] postulates that “the goal is no longer to produce products in an efficient way, but rather to provide the functions needed by society while minimizing material and energy consumption”. This new situation affects the product requirements as well as product development process (PD). When focusing on the entire product life cycle, product aspects such as maintenance and repair will receive more attention since the companies will be responsible for them. In the product development process of today, especially in the automotive industry, maintenance and repair aspects (repair and maintenance methods and manuals, for example) are currently taken care of when the product is more or less fully developed. Maintenance and repair requirements are difficult to quantify in terms of core product properties (for vehicles, cost, CO2 emissions, weight, and so on). This leads to difficulties in equally considering maintenance and repair requirements while balancing vast amounts of product requirements. This paper focuses on a comparison and discussion of existing design guidelines affecting the structure and organization of parts in an assembled consumer product, such as Design for Assembly (DFA), Design for Maintenance (DFMa), Design for Service (DFS) and Design for Disassembly (DFD) methods. A tool for evaluation and analyzing product architecture as well as assemblability and maintainability is proposed.

Designing the Product Development Process

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Bligh ◽  
Manbir Sodhi
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Process Design ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Quality Product ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
The Impact

Even though the literature on product and process development is extensive, not much attention has been devoted to categorizing the product development process itself. Existing work on product development processes such as Total Design, Integrated Product and Process Design among others advocate common approaches that should be followed throughout the organization, without any consideration of product characteristics. In this paper we review several existing development methodologies. Extensions of these are categorized by their applicability to different classes of products. We propose that development processes should be matched to product attributes and organization goals. Towards this end, we associate development processes along with their components such as House of Quality, Robust Design, TRIZ etc. with goals such as time to market, customer needs satisfaction, intellectual property generation, protection and exploitation, quality, product cost and others. We examine the impact of this association on the development process itself and propose guidelines for constructing specific processes associated with one or more goals. Tools and benchmarks for various applications are discussed, along with some case studies on the design of different development processes.

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