Where the Big Bucks Will Come From: Implementing Product Line Engineering for Railway Rolling Stock

Góngora, Hugo G. Chalé; Greugny, François

doi:10.1002/inst.12242

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“…Product Line Systems Engineering (PLSE) broadens the systems engineering process activity scope with methods and tools from Product Line Engineering devoted to engineering a family of similar products exhibiting variations in their characteristics (INCOSE 2019, Chalé andGreugny 2017). This occurs through defining, using, and managing a shared configurable engineering asset set leveraging the commonality within the family, and through systematic and rigorous variation management amongst the family products using a feature model (Beuche 2008).…”

Section: Processes and Methods For Product-service Product Linesmentioning

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Product Line Engineering for Digital Product‐Services

Góngora¹,

Robic²,

Beuche³

2021

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Digitizing the value chain brings along new business opportunities to organizations wishing to adopt a service‐oriented approach. This trend, referred to as digital transformation, has taken over the business world in recent years. Digital technologies allow a company to move towards outcome‐based commitments, pricing, and contracts with its customers. However, these technologies can also make product portfolio management more challenging. Whereas transforming a product offering into a product‐service offering through digitization does not in itself revolutionize product line systems engineering processes and methods, it is of the utmost importance to consider this transformation concerns more than a new culture or using new technology and requires, first and foremost, an alignment with an organization's global strategy and structure.In this paper, we present a conceptual framework that helps define a high‐level strategy to implement a product‐service offer in an organization. The distinctive framework aspects include the Product‐Service Product Line or PSPL concept (a product line of product‐services), the elements to define the PSPL business model (pricing model, pricing metrics, and commitment types), a product‐services typology, and a product line engineering method extension for architecting the PSPL (notably, a specific service building block type to support a composable design approach and a feature model including service‐related, socio‐technical features).

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Section: Processes and Methods For Product-service Product Linesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Product Line Engineering for Digital Product‐Services

Góngora¹,

Robic²,

Beuche³

2021

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“…Product Line Systems Engineering (PLSE) broadens the scope of activities of systems engineering processes with methods and tools from Product Line Engineering and devoted to the engineering of a family of similar products (as opposed to the engineering of a single product) that exhibit variations in their characteristics (AFIS 2013, Chalé et al 2014, Chalé and Greugny 2017, INCOSE 2019. This is achieved through the definition, use and management of a shared set of configurable engineering assets that leverage the commonality within the family, and through a systematic and rigorous management of variation amongst the products of the family (Beuche 2008).…”

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Digital Product‐Service Systems meet Product Line Systems Engineering – The Cart before the Horse?

Chale-Gongora

Robic

Beuche

2020

INCOSE International Symp

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The use of digital technologies opens the door to new business opportunities for traditional product manufacturing companies thanks to the numerous services that these technologies make possible. This trend, referred to as digital transformation, has taken over the business world in recent years. In this new technology‐enabled opportunity space, the appropriateness of traditional Product Line Systems Engineering (PLSE) practices can be questioned. This paper addresses the different challenges facing the application of PLSE to product‐service systems, including those supported by digital technologies. To meet these challenges, a conceptual framework that extends current PLSE practices in order to define a structured approach for Product‐Service Product Lines (PSPL) is proposed. The fundamental concepts behind the framework include a typology of PSPL and specific methods for architecting and engineering the PSPL (more precisely, for managing the variability of the PSPL), and for aligning the business strategies of classical product lines (i.e. tangible, physical product lines) with those of their corresponding, and less classical, service product lines. The authors believe that the proposed framework can help evolve the practice of PLSE and enhance the foundations of Systems Engineering with useful concepts.

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“…Case studies for the application of Feature-based PLE include (Wozniak 2015, Chalé Góngora 2017, Clements 2019, Flores 2017, Gregg 2015, Lanman 2011. Process definitions and collections of best practices for Feature-based PLE are now available to practitioners (SDTimes 2019).…”

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Innovative Approaches to Superset Asset Templates using Feature‐Based Product Line Engineering

Kobayashi

Way

Krauss

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INCOSE International Symp

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This paper discusses our experience applying Feature‐based Product Line Engineering (PLE) to a product line of hardware modules designed for use in space‐based and airborne systems. Feature‐based PLE involves the automatic configuration of engineering artifacts (maintained as supersets) into product‐specific instances based on that product's feature selections. We observed a 40% reduction in non‐recurring engineering costs in this product line. The paper also discusses an innovative approach we used to extend the ability of the PLE configurator tool to interface with analysis and simulation tools for which no actual tool integration currently exists.

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Where the Big Bucks Will Come From: Implementing Product Line Engineering for Railway Rolling Stock

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Product Line Engineering for Digital Product‐Services

Product Line Engineering for Digital Product‐Services

Digital Product‐Service Systems meet Product Line Systems Engineering – The Cart before the Horse?

Innovative Approaches to Superset Asset Templates using Feature‐Based Product Line Engineering

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