The Software Factory

Bratman, Harvey; Court, T. D.

doi:10.1109/c-m.1975.218953

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“…In fact, one of the U.S. leaders in the custom software field, System Little capability to reuse components, despite the fact that many application areas used similar logic and managers believed that extensive use of off-the-shelf software modules would significantly shorten the time required for software development [13,14].…”

Section: Early Us Proposals and The Sdc Factorymentioning

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Shifting economies: From craft production to flexible systems and software factories

Cusumano

1992

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This article discusses the evolution of production systems from craft or job shops to conventional mass production and then to flexible design and production systems. The major argument is that factory concepts and technologies have been evolving in two directions: First, they have become more versatile in the variety of products they can produce, resulting from innovations in production and design technology as well as management techniques. Second, companies have extended factory-like tools and techniques backward toward design operations, gradually bringing more discipline, automation, and thus efficiency into the realm of engineering work, including the relatively new field of computer programming. The result, in both manufacturing and design, has been a shift from simple scale economies, as in conventional mass production, to scope economies --efficiencies gained in the design and production of multiple products. n examination of how flexible-factory tools and techniques have been applied in large-scale software development illustrates these trends.

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Section: Early Us Proposals and The Sdc Factorymentioning

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Shifting economies: From craft production to flexible systems and software factories

Cusumano

1992

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“…Is the purpose of minimizing skill to increase efficiency or is the central goal to extend managerial control over the process of production?"' 5 Such questions, not fully addressed here, are examined elsewhere.2'"20 However, future researchers should reflect upon automation's role in software production and its potential for changing software work and workplaces. Software engineers may find the use of software tools beneficial.…”

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“…Human labor is typically limited to loading/unloading raw/finished parts, changing tools and workstation configurations, reprogramming process sequences, and maintaining equipment. The FMS supports (1) production of workpart families, (2) asynchronous introduction of workparts into the production process, (3) reduced manufacturing lead time, (4) reduced work-in-progress inventory, (5) increased workstation utilization, and (6) reduced direct and indirect labor. As such, an FMS can accommodate production of small prototypical assemblies as well as large repetitive structured products.…”

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Towards a Knowledge-Based System Factory: Issues and Implementations

Eliot

Scacchi

1986

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So oftware development is labor intensive, and recent attempts to automate programming tasks often view software production as a form of organizational factory. Researchers using a factory-oriented analogy can focus on critical software development issues both similar and dissimilar to those involved in factory processes, thereby reusing valuable lessons learned in the structuring and automating of factory work.This article examines many underlying assumptions that relate factory work to the software arena, providing insights into advantages and disadvantages of this powerful metaphor. It describes the USC system factory, discussing extensions to existing automation-extensions incorporating knowledge-based mechanisms, in particular.

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“…Some sort of compromise among the competing approaches is sought by an approach like that described by Bratman (13] for the SDC Software Factory. This concept assumes a software engineering approach to software development , complete with structured programi ng methodology , but proposes that a standarized facility be used for all software development wi th cross-compilers used to bootstrap developed programs onto target machines .…”

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Software Data Collection Study. Volume III. Data Requirements for Productivity and Reliability Studies.

Finfer¹

1976

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The Software Factory

Cited by 25 publications

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Shifting economies: From craft production to flexible systems and software factories

Shifting economies: From craft production to flexible systems and software factories

Towards a Knowledge-Based System Factory: Issues and Implementations

Software Data Collection Study. Volume III. Data Requirements for Productivity and Reliability Studies.

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