Increasing competition on markets induces a vital need for companies to improve their efficiency and reactivity. For this, a solution is to deploy, improve and manage their processes while paying a special attention on the abilities of the resources those involve. Particularly, the interoperability of the latter is considered in this article as a challenge conditioning the success of the deployment. Consequently, this paper presents a methodology to assess interoperability of people, material resources and organisation units involved or that could be involved in a process, all along the deployment effort. This methodology is usable for prevention, detection and correction of interoperability problems.
Increasing competition on markets induces a vital need for companies to improve their efficiency and reactivity. For this, a solution is to deploy, improve and manage their processes while paying a special attention on the abilities of the resources involved. Particularly, the interoperability of the latter is considered in this article as a challenge conditioning the success of the deployment. Consequently, this paper presents a mean to assess interoperability of the resources involved in a process during all its life cycle.
-Nowadays, increasing competition on markets forces companies to improve constantly their competitiveness. For this, they have to control not only the design cycles of their products thanks to an efficient and responsive organization, but also interactions between people, processes and technologies involved in design. However, it is problematic considering the increasing complexity of products. A solution is to apply the principles of Systems Engineering (SE), a proven interdisciplinary approach that defines an effective organization in the form of processes. However it raises a set of questions such as: how to define SE compliant processes including business specificities and how to know if the company has the required organization and skills to deploy them successfully? This article aims to answer this last question for large companies designing complex products under the assumption that interoperability, i.e. the ability to work efficiently together, is a deployment key factor. On the basis of a survey of existing contributions applicable to the deployment, we introduce an innovative maturity model to be used before any deployment action. This paper explains the design approach used to elaborate and validate it, presents its content and shows how to use it.
Integration, Verification & Validation processes are key activities regarding the Quality, Cost and Delivery time, and thus has a huge impact on the projects profitability. IVV processes are complex and have to take into account in a coherent way various elements such as skills, organizations, means, process and risk management. Therefore, a maturity model is well adapted to describe how to evaluate and improve an industrial context. In order to help managers to assess their IVV process and reach a performance level corresponding to their goal, an assessment notation has been carried out (IV²AN). As the main idea is to improve step by step and not to jump directly to the higher level, the assessment notation proposes some ideas for a smooth deployment to improve and gain in development performance. This paper describes this approach, based on criteria which seem important to the INCOSE's French Chapter (AFIS) IVVQ Working Group and shared by several industrial companies.
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