An approach to model and evaluate innovation and concurrent engineering projects

Grunder, Olivier; Baptiste, Pierre; Barakat, Ouafa

doi:10.1109/etfa.1995.496772

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“…These last points have been studied for a long time in telecommunication software development and in multi-tasks programming. Different approaches can be developed to ensure the global consistency of the project organisation (Allison, 1994) (Grunder et al, 1995). Our solution provides some graphical tools, taken from these approaches, in order to model collaborative work (Biennier et al, 1994).…”

Section: Integration Of the Project Descriptionmentioning

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Improving Assistants Definition by Capturing Real Collaborative Work

Biennier

Favrel

Beuchot

1998

Concurrent Engineering

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Supporting efficient simultaneous engineering activities involves convenient "assistant" processes. The main improvements rely on reusing abilities, collaborative work design and information sharing.To achieve these goals, the support system must include storing and descriptive features as well as on-line adaptation to each actor. Of course, this system must also be organised in a distributed way and include communication features.The architecture presented in this paper relies on a hypermedia based information system. This system includes, in a semi-structured way, all the information describing the products and the description of the project organisation thanks to the LACATRE and SDL formalisms. Secured access functions are provided to ensure information consistency and allow collaborative work.By adding an information status controlling the information cycle of life and an eavesdrop system on the information access functions, we approximate the way the project is effectively organised.Thanks to this last feature, actors are described not only according to a technical point of view but also according to an organisational point of view. In this way, more adapted assistants could be proposed to the different actors Linear

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Section: Integration Of the Project Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Assistants Definition by Capturing Real Collaborative Work

Biennier

Favrel

Beuchot

1998

Concurrent Engineering

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“…There have been some methods for predicting a lead time of a project such as PERT and CPM [5]. CPM estimates a lead time by simply summing deterministic durations of activities in the critical path.…”

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“…Critical path method (CPM) [3] and program evaluation and review technique (PERT) [3,4] are well-known approaches to solving this problem. Although they are well suited to analyze simple PD projects, they are not powerful enough for complex PD process because their assumptions are too strict to fully consider its complex structure [5].…”

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Lead Time Estimation Method for Complex Product Development Process

Jun

Park²,

Suh

2006

Concurrent Engineering

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As the lifecycle of a product gets shorter, the timely introduction of new products becomes an invaluable asset to most manufacturing firms. It is needless to say that the competitive edge is given to a firm with the better knowledge on how to estimate the product development (PD) process because reducing the product development time is a critical issue for manufacturing firms. However, it is difficult to estimate the performance of the PD process because of its complexity. So far, in spite of its strategic importance, only a few studies have been done. To overcome this limitation, in this study, the authors provide a heuristic algorithm that can estimate the lead time of a complex PD process by series-parallel network transformation and network reduction methods with estimates of the makespans of branch-merge types. To show the usefulness of this method, computational experiments have been carried out.

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An approach to model and evaluate innovation and concurrent engineering projects

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Improving Assistants Definition by Capturing Real Collaborative Work

Improving Assistants Definition by Capturing Real Collaborative Work

Lead Time Estimation Method for Complex Product Development Process

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