scholarly journals A New Classification Analysis of Customer Requirement Information Based on Quantitative Standardization for Product Configuration

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Xiao ◽  
Zude Zhou ◽  
Buyun Sheng
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Product Configuration ◽  
Customer Requirement ◽  
New Classification ◽  
Classification Analysis ◽  
Data Formats ◽  
Subsequent Application

Traditional methods used for the classification of customer requirement information are typically based on specific indicators, hierarchical structures, and data formats and involve a qualitative analysis in terms of stationary patterns. Because these methods neither consider the scalability of classification results nor do they regard subsequent application to product configuration, their classification becomes an isolated operation. However, the transformation of customer requirement information into quantifiable values would lead to a dynamic classification according to specific conditions and would enable an association with product configuration in an enterprise. This paper introduces a classification analysis based on quantitative standardization, which focuses on (i) expressing customer requirement information mathematically and (ii) classifying customer requirement information for product configuration purposes. Our classification analysis treated customer requirement information as follows: first, it was transformed into standardized values using mathematics, subsequent to which it was classified through calculating the dissimilarity with general customer requirement information related to the product family. Finally, a case study was used to demonstrate and validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the classification analysis.

Process configuration: Combining the principles of product configuration and process planning

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 411-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARSTEN SCHIERHOLT
Keyword(s):  
Process Planning ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Product Configuration ◽  
Process Configuration ◽  
Rolling Industry ◽  
Configuration System ◽  
Planning Task ◽  
Product Specifications ◽  
Additional Product

Product configuration is the process of generating a product variant from a previously defined product family model and additional product specifications for this variant. The process of finding and sequencing the relevant operations for manufacturing this product is called process planning. This article combines the two principles in a new concept of process configuration that solves the process planning task using product configuration methods. The second section develops characteristics for two process configuration concepts, the interactive process configuration and the automation-based process configuration. Following an overview of the implementation of a process configuration system, the results of a case study in the aluminum rolling industry are presented. The main benefits of the process configuration concept are observed in a reduced knowledge-maintenance effort and in increased problem-solving speed.

Case Study: User Adoption of a Product Configuration Management System at a Modular Playground Equipment Producer

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany M. Byron ◽  
Steven B. Shooter
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
Product Configuration ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Product Configuration Management ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
User Adoption

Product platform and product family strategies place tremendous demands on the efficient capture, storage, and retrieval of information in the form of product data. The user’s adoption of an information management system for product families and mass customization is critical for allowing the system to perform as it ought. The following is a case study at a major modular playground equipment producer undergoing the implementation of a new graphical-based configurator for managing its mass customized products. The case study examines the proliferation of software packages to perform configuration and the flow of information in the configuration process. Next, the new configurator is evaluated on its new features to capture, store, and reuse configurations and its visual appeal. Last, the paper addresses the personal behaviors and training methods used for increasing adoption and their success.

Product-Service Family Enabled Product Configuration System for Cloud Manufacturing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiqiang Yu ◽  
Pai Zheng ◽  
Chunyang Yu ◽  
Xun Xu
Keyword(s):  
Product Family ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Product Configuration ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Process Manufacturing ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Configuration System ◽  
Engineer To Order

Rapid responsiveness to diverse customer needs is considered a competitive advantage in manufacturing business. To shrink the inquiry-to-order process, manufacturing firms will benefit a lot from building a product configuration system (PCS) which is the enabler of mass customisation (MC). PCS has matured in consumer businesses for decades but in capital goods industries, typically operating in engineer-to-order (ETO) manner, things differ a lot. It is for the reason that conventional PCS is incapable of extending customisation from order-delivery processes to the design/engineering phase. Cloud manufacturing, which is an emerging service-oriented manufacturing paradigms enabled by cyber-physical system, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Service, is promising to break the bottleneck of “ETO PCS” by the provision of technical infrastructure for product, service and data customisation. With the introducing of manufacturing-as-a-service (MaaS) concept, a product family is extended to a product-service family (PSF) in this paper for implementing in-depth product configuration process with scalable customisation depth (i.e., the degree of customisation freedom). Additionally, an approach of service delegation in product configuration process is proposed to support customer-centric product customisation. At last, the methodology proposed in this paper is validated by a case study in which the product configuration process of a complex ETO product is performed.

Research on the module configuration of complex products considering the evolution of the product family

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 4577-4595
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Liu ◽  
Mengting Zhang ◽  
Yupeng Li ◽  
Xuening Chu
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Pareto Frontier ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Product Configuration ◽  
Future Market ◽  
Complex Products ◽  
Configuration Scheme

The evolution of the product family is the essential driving force for the development of a complex product. Only customer satisfaction is emphasized in the traditional module configuration methods, which is not beneficial for product family evolution that is due to non-customer factors such as the emergence of new technology. In this study, the intuitionistic fuzzy number is employed to quantify the degree of correlation between each module and configuration targets, namely customer satisfaction and the degree of evolution of the product family, respectively. The bi-objective integer programming model is constructed by maximizing the degree of customer satisfaction and product family evolution. An improved Pareto ant colony optimization (P-ACO) is designed to solve this model and subsequently the Pareto frontier is obtained. The radar chart is adopted to represent the performance of each configuration scheme in the Pareto frontier. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are expounded by a case study and result comparison, showing that this method can provide a more competitive product configuration scheme to customers in the future market.

CASE STUDY: Delegated Distribution: Hotels Should Be Warned! An Example from Croatia

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iva Slivar ◽  
Uglješa Stankov ◽  
Vanja Pavluković
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
New Classification ◽  
Market Position ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Online Travel ◽  
Online Travel Agencies

The penetration of online booking among hotels has been growing steadily. In order to maintain its market position, online travel agencies (OTAs) are offering small and medium hotels, mainly to those which have not yet adopted e-commerce, their own booking engines for websites or as apps to be integrated on hotels' platforms. Hotels are persuaded by cuts in commission, no commissions and other privileges. The implications of such a decision are of crucial importance to hotels in the struggle for tourists. This article presents a new classification of tourism e-distribution which includes this phenomenon named “delegate distribution”, a partnership strategy of OTA-s with hoteliers drawing on a study on the expansion of delegated distribution in Croatia. The key advantages and disadvantages are also listed, along with a comparison with direct and indirect forms of distribution in terms of inference upon other marketing mix elements.

scholarly journals Identificação Arbórea e uma Nova Proposta de Classificação das Subformas do Bioma Cerrado: Estudo de Caso do Município de São Francisco, Minas Gerais.

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 2714
Author(s):  
Pedro Luiz Teixeira Camargo ◽  
Paulo Pereira Martins Júnior ◽  
Raphaella Karla Portes Beserra ◽  
Tiago Soares Barcelos
Keyword(s):  
Tree Species ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Campo Rupestre ◽  
New Classification ◽  
Physical Description ◽  
Cerrado Biome ◽  
Restricted Sense

Este trabalho versa acerca do bioma Cerrado e de suas diversas fitofisionomias divisíveis, uma grande polêmica ainda presente neste tipo de Savana. O objetivo desta pesquisa, localizado em São Francisco, Norte de Minas Gerais, é listar e verificar as diversas espécies (ou famílias) arbóreas presentes nas fisionomias vegetacionais ali presentes, contribuindo assim para sua identificação. Como resultados apresentam-se formações florestais, savânicas e campestres, que podem ser dividas em 11 subformas: Mata Ciliar, Mata de Galeria, Mata Seca ou Floresta Estacional Decidual, Cerradão, Cerrado sentido restrito, Parque Cerrado, Palmeiral, Vereda, Campo Sujo, Campo Limpo e Campo Rupestre. Além da descrição física, observaram-se as principais espécies arbóreas ali presentes, com destaque para o Cerrado sentido restrito, com 33 espécies lenhosas descritas. Como conclusão é possível observar que as fitoformas Floresta de Galeria, Palmeiral e Parque Cerrado não parecem ter tantas espécies arbóreas diferenciadas capazes de serem denominadas como subtipos deste bioma, a primeira poderia estar junto com a Mata Ciliar, a segunda nas Veredas e a terceira junto ao Cerrado sentido restrito, sendo sugerido mais estudos que comprovem esta hipótese aqui colocada de uma nova proposta de classificação das subformas do bioma Cerrado diferente daquela proposta por Ribeiro e Walter (1998). Tree Identification and a New Classification Proposal for the Substrings of the Cerrado Biome: Case Study of the Municipality of São Francisco, Minas Gerais A B S T R A C TThe classification of the Cerrado biome and its various divisible phytophysiognomies is still a major controversy among scholars on the subject, therefore, the objective of this research, located in São Francisco, North of Minas Gerais, is to list and verify the various species (or tree families present in the region's vegetation physiognomies, thus contributing to their identification. As results, forest, savanna and countryside formations are presented, which, according to Ribeiro and Walter (1998), can be divided into eleven subforms: Mata Ciliar, Mata de Galeria, Mata Seca or Decidual Seasonal Forest, Cerradão, Cerrado sense restricted, Park Cerrado, Palm, Vereda, Campo Sujo, Campo Limpo and Campo Rupestre. In addition to the physical description, the main tree species present there were observed, with emphasis on the Cerrado restricted sense, with 33 woody species described. As a conclusion, it is possible to observe that the phytoforms Floresta de Galeria, Palmeiral and Parque Cerrado do not seem to have so many different tree species capable of being called as subtypes of this biome, therefore, we propose a new classification for the Cerrado subforms, with the Galeria Forest being placed together with the Mata Ciliar, the Palm together with the Veredas and the Parque Cerrado together with the Cerrado in a restricted sense, thus being no more eleven subforms, but only eight. Further studies are suggested to prove the hypothesis presented here of a new proposal for the classification of subforms of the Cerrado biome different from the classic proposal.Keywords: biogeography, forest identification, agrarian and environmental Geosciences.

scholarly journals Architectural analyses of tree forking habit with single-image photogrammetry: a case study of post-mature temperate oaks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamil Kędra
Keyword(s):  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Branching Ratio ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Single Image ◽  
New Classification ◽  
Mature Trees ◽  
Forest Remnant ◽  
Mixed Deciduous Forest

AbstractTree forking is both ecologically and economically relevant, but remains much understudied. Here, thirty post-mature temperate oaks (Quercus robur or Q. petraea) forking habit was both qualitatively and quantitatively analysed with the single-image photogrammetry (SIP), in a north-exposed mixed, deciduous forest remnant (near Krakow; Poland). A new classification of mature oak architectures was proposed, based on the original Hallé-Oldeman model, with modified locations of the main branches and presence or absence of bifurcation in the main stem. Two of the new classes were most clearly represented by the studied oaks. It was found that the trees tended to either keep branches at varying heights, with no forks, or to iterate forking, with no major (non-fork) branches below the first fork. The quantitative analysis confirmed the applicability of the branch to parent stem diameter ratio to define a fork. Branching ratio was positively correlated with both tree diameter and height of a branch above the ground, which is consistent with a previous study, based on much younger trees. It is concluded, that most probably the tree-level factors and phenomena, such as water supplies and posture control, played the key role in the studied oaks forking habit. The SIP method enabled valuable insights into the large oaks’ forking, both at the tree and branch levels, and may be further employed to study mature trees’ bifurcation patterns. Based on this study, some possible improvements to the methodology were discussed.

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