Axiomatic Design for an Efficient Development of Optimized RPM Systems

Pacifici, Beniamino; Parretti, Chiara; Girgenti, Andrea; Citti, Paolo

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201712701010

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“…Following the brainstorming sessions related to the washing phase the reached conclusions were analysed and translated into technical aspects for the development of the product, through the quality function deployment (QFD) tool (Pacifici et al, 2017). The importance values, obtained by the average of the users' brainstorming scores, were multiplied by a correlation factor to obtain the values in the QFD boxes.…”

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Development of a new washing machine in olive oil extraction plant: A first application of usability-based approach

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J Agricult Engineer

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This paper suggests an approach based on usability engineering, used to assess the usability of machines and plants in the agrofood industry, aiming to enhance machines efficacy, efficiency and safety with a development focused on users’ needs. Furthermore, the article examines the validation of the suggested approach through its application in a case study regarding a washing machine for the production of extra virgin olive oil. Firstly, it was necessary to identify the target cluster. For this reason, only Tuscan high quality extra virgin olive oil manufacturers were selected. The selected producers are of between 30 and 65 years old, with working experience in the field of at least 10 years. Once the cluster was identified, through brainstorming, the critical phases of the process were identified. According to the results, the washing process was considered the most critical phase. The reached conclusions were analysed and translated into technical aspects through the Quality Function Deployment. The predominant needs to be introduced in the new washing machine were related to the reduction of processing time, the improvement of washing system, the reduction of water consumption, and the increase of worker safety. Successively, a virtual prototype was developed and tested with 8 experts. Afterwards, a usability test was performed with 15 users. Two different olive washing machines were evaluated (traditional vs new machine). The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was utilised for users’ scores interpretation. According to P-values (ranging from P<0.001 to P=0.008) several statistically significant differences emerged between the two washing machines. In particular, remarkable differences regarding efficacy, efficiency, usability, human-machine interaction, reliability and an increase in safety were highlighted. Moreover, the results indicate that the new washing machine is overall perceived as more usable machine. In conclusion, the results are encouraging and give robustness both to the proposed methodological approach and to the improvement of the new washing machine.

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Development of a new washing machine in olive oil extraction plant: A first application of usability-based approach

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Cini

et al. 2019

J Agricult Engineer

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“…In any case, the management of past anomalies for similar procedures provides a significant support at this stage, particularly if the non-conformities have been catalogued and analyzed in Holistic Non-Conformity Reduction mode [5,6]. Moreover, the axiomatic approach allows to define an interdomain association that keeps specific users together, functional requirements traced back to a specific user requirement [7,8]. This leads to the definition of a project in which the individual component, at any level, can be traced back to a specific user requirement.…”

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Clinical risk evaluation of medical device software: an axiomatic design-based methodology

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The increasing complexity of medical device (MD) management software requires the adoption of new methodological approaches that pay particular attention to safety issues. The risk analysis is one of the key activities to be carried out by the manufacturer before the development of the software application as it determines the type of documentation to be provided as well as the activities to be performed to place the MD on the market. After the definition of software requirements and their iterative transformation into architectural items and/or units, the manufacturer defines the safety class of each item. The adoption of an axiomatic design approach facilitates this process. This combination of techniques helps to focus the design of medical device software on non-conformities with a clear link to clinical risk. This objective can be achieved by assessing the complexity of the system to be designed, both in terms of its functional size, and as a level of overall clinical risk. In this multi-dimensional perspective, the software effort expressed in function points provides an estimate of the development cost. While the clinical risk analysis allows to quickly identify critical areas, to intervene with the same promptness and to draft a management plan according to the regulations of the various control authorities.MATEC Web of Conferences 301, 00005 (2019)

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“…This paper proposes the design of a robust web services selection system. It uses the FR selection approach based on the verification of the axioms of independence and information [29,30]. The axiom of independence consists in trying to keep the identified FRs independent.…”

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Axiomatic Selection of Health and Social Care Web Services on the Basis of Use Cases

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in recent years remote patient monitoring systems, which are conceived to monitor patient and store the recorded data, employ Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). In health care systems, if on the one hand the SOA features allow enriching the offer of services to patients and their families, on the other hand the problem arises of selecting the most appropriate set of web services for homogeneous groups of users or for each individual clinical case. In this paper, we propose a methodology based on the Axiomatic Design for the composition and selection of web services, which are based on the case stories studied, built using semi-structured interviews to different stakeholders involved in the care process. The proposed methodology detects in a systematic way all functional requirements by taking into account the different stakeholders involved in the process and their interactions. Thus, it identifies the interested actors for a specific health protocol, and consider all information to be exchanged and the Web Services to be implemented. The development of this methodology opens interesting scenarios even in areas not currently affected by such systems, such as health and safety at work for monitoring patients with chronic illnesses or for their work reintegration following acute clinical events. A specific case study is considered in order to illustrate the proposed approach.

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Axiomatic Design for an Efficient Development of Optimized RPM Systems

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Development of a new washing machine in olive oil extraction plant: A first application of usability-based approach

Development of a new washing machine in olive oil extraction plant: A first application of usability-based approach

Clinical risk evaluation of medical device software: an axiomatic design-based methodology

Axiomatic Selection of Health and Social Care Web Services on the Basis of Use Cases

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