Interdisciplinary Semantic Interactions within a Unified Feature Model for Product Cost Estimation

Abstract

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Defining one product data for a product

“…Sales package description of sales item combinations (Baghdadi, 2014;Kropsu-Vehkapera, 2012; Kropsu-Vehkapera and Marketing & sales plan; customer demand (Cooper, 2001;Li et al, 2011;Pan et al, 2014;Tao et al, 2017) Marketing and sales material (commercial and (Cooper, 2001;Kropsu-Vehkapera, 2012; technical) & their legal approvals Saaksvuori and Immonen, 2008;Kropsu-Vehkapera and Haapasalo, 2011) Product/service pricing and customer deal instructions (Cooper, 2001;Baghdadi, 2014;Kropsu-Vehkapera, 2012;Saaksvuori and Immonen, 2008;Sajadfar et al, 2014;Sharma and Shah, 2015) Launch plan for commercial partners (Cooper, 2001) Promotion and launch material (Kemppainen, 2010) Customer requests for product improvements (product change requirements) (CIMdata, 2002) Configuration Configuration guidelines: recommended configurations, marketing/sales limitations, properties and features, customer-specific configurations, price/cost information (Do et al, 2002;Kropsu-Vehkapera, 2012;Saaksvuori and Immonen, 2008) Pre-set configuration rules (Jinsong et al, 2005;Li et al 2016;Saaksvuori and Immonen, 2008) Delivery times and sales channels for saleable products (Kropsu-Vehkapera, 2012;Silvola et al, 2016;Tu et al, 2006) Specific customer discounts (Customer contracts as a reference) Internal product guidelines, system and realisation for reconfiguring products (Kropsu-Vehkapera, 2012;Kropsu-Vehkapera and Haapasalo, 2011) H3: Product data requirements for marketing and sales can be divided into sales & marketing, configuration and sales support. Opportunities for swift access are emphasised in the marketing and sales context.…”

A hybrid cost estimation framework based on feature-oriented data mining approach

“…The initial input of the cost estimation system is the historical data, which is usually available in many companies but in different table forms. To unify the data structures and create a characteristic representation of cost components and calculation algorithms associated, a new feature-based cost estimation model has been introduced by authors [22,23].…”

“…As described in the previous publications [22,23], a cost feature is a set of an object's characteristic attributes and their related functions and servicing methods, which can be associated and constrained to represent the pattern of semantics for the purpose of cost engineering. The cost feature has to consider the variety of cost-related information aspects including quality, operation sequence and time, design, equipment, materials, functions of application, and geometry and non-geometry details, such as tolerance, surface finish, and working allowance.…”

Interoperability Challenges of ERP Implementation in a Collaborative Manufacturing Environment

“…Fourth, develop generic and feature-based cost engineering functionality [9,10]. If the access to precise product and process information for fulfilling potential orders is available, companies can utilize necessary optimization strategies to work out the accurate and timely cost and delivery schedule estimation.…”