Function Deployment Model for Continuous and Discontinuous Innovation Product Development

Abstract

This paper proposes the use of a Function Deployment Model (FDM) for continuous and discontinuous innovation product development. To demonstrate its usefulness in a real situation, the model was applied to the design problem of a multi-function sampling instrument used in the ESA (European Space Agency) Beagle2 Mars Express mission. The proposed model is based on Quality Function Deployment (QFD) techniques for translating customer needs to engineering characteristics. An Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to prioritize customer requirements while a Linear Programming (LP) optimization method is used to determine the feasible solution of the design variables within limited resources. An application of the new model is made on a real life example to show the proposed model's ability and its applicability to other disciplines.

Continuous Innovation: A Literature Review and Future Perspective

“…A fundamental element of CIC [49] Offensive management, hyperlearning process, [62] Knowledge generation and transfer [17] Knowledge generation capability, learning alignment capability, Capability to integrate knowledge, the capability to transfer and diffuse knowledge, and knowledge consolidation capability [63] Knowledge generation, learning alignment, knowledge transferring and diffusion, knowledge retaining [19] Creativity, organization learning, system design [16] Operational effectiveness and strategic flexibility -exploitation and exploration [64] Knowledge management [50] Quality Assurance, Quality Management System [65] Learning, knowledge [70] External Contingency [44] Employee participation (self-determination, a line of command, task/order) [51] Ambidextrous organizations, the synergetic potential of technologies [45] Individual competencies, skill, people abilities [66] Learning, knowledge management [52] System and organization [8] Strategic (Leadership, strategic planning, human resources, process quality, customer satisfaction) and Operational (Customer service, cost management, asset management, quality, productivity) [12] Stakeholders contribution, social capital, infrastructure for corporation, continuous improvement capability, and strategic orientation [53] Excellent in exploitation and exploration and excellent in incremental and radical innovation [39] IT competences, project management, collaboration and communication, knowledge management [40] Concurrent engineering, creative engineering [54] Combination of exploitation and exploration [43] The ability to work together with partners [38] The strategic role of ICT and customer and supplier relation [67] Knowledge management [55] Good operational, efficiency [56] Applying enabling technology creativity, seizing market opportunities, aligning routes to markets, utilizing absorptive capacity, enhancing organizational innovation, staging cultural [46] Ideation capabilities, rules, system [57] Leadership, adopter behavior, communicative adaptor…”

Optimisation problems and resolution methods in satellite scheduling and space-craft operation: a survey

“…For aviation, the platform provides additional resources to trace air traffic, reducing the difficulties of flight incident investigation. Some research works of interest in this contexts are by (Sui-man and Yung 2006;Yung and Ko 2007;Weiss and Lung 2009;Qian et al 2017). (Sui-man and Yung 2006) propose the use of a Function Deployment Model (FDM) for the design problem of a multi-function sampling instrument used in the ESA (European Space Agency) Beagle2 Mars Express mission.…”

“…In addition, the university has been working with China Space Agency (POLYU 2017) to continue collaboration with industries and education institutes to develop more space missions for Chang'e projects (Change-3 mission 2013) for outer space explorations (the reader is referred to Sect. 3 and to (Sui-man and Yung 2006;Weiss and Lung 2009;Qian et al 2017) for details). On the simulation side, we present a benchmark of instances generated by the Satellite Toolkit (STK), which is shown useful to evaluate and judge on the effectiveness of the resolutions methods for the problem.…”