Product Complexity Management Enabled by a Model-Based Approach

Product Complexity Management Enabled by a Model-Based Approach
Author: Zhenchao Hu
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
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As contemporary engineered systems become more interdependent, there is a growing need to manage their system complexity. However, system complexity only exists as implicit and heterogeneous information. This situation causes difficulties to obtain and analyze system complexity. This manuscript illustrates a model-based approach to support system complexity management. The system complexity includes dynamic complexity and structural complexity in this manuscript. The proposed approach includes complexity modeling and complexity analysis. As for complexity modeling, a graph-matrix hybrid complexity modeling approach is proposed to describe the dynamic and structure complexity information. The graph-based architecture models are developed by a unified meta-meta modeling approach. The connections among different architecture models are described by design structure matrix. As for complexity analysis, a general complexity metric provides dynamic and structural complexity values for the designer to evaluate the system. Besides, automatic ontology modeling is introduced to integrate complexity modeling and complexity analysis. Finally, a case study about aero-engine design is conducted. The complexity management processes of three different scenarios are compared in this case study. The comparison results demonstrate that the proposed approach is general and applicable to any engineered system and can support the trade-off between complex product design schemes.

Structural Complexity Management

Structural Complexity Management
Author: Udo Lindemann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2008-09-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540878890

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Product design is characterized by a steady increase in complexity. The main focus of this book is a structural approach on complexity management. This means, system structures are considered in order to address the challenge of complexity in all aspects of product design. Structures arise from the complex dependencies of system elements. Thus, the identification of system structures provides access to the understanding of system behavior in practical applications. The book presents a methodology that enables the analysis, control and optimization of complex structures, and the applicability of domain-spanning problems. The methodology allows significant improvements on handling system complexity by creating improved system understanding on the one hand and optimizing product design that is robust for system adaptations on the other hand. Developers can thereby enhance project coordination and improve communication between team members and as a result shorten development time. The practical application of the methodology is described by means of two detailed examples.

Systems Engineering and Its Application to Industrial Product Development

Systems Engineering and Its Application to Industrial Product Development
Author: Eugenio Brusa
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2017-12-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319718371

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Mastering the complexity of innovative systems is a challenging aspect of design and product development. Only a systematic approach can help to embed an increasing degree of smartness in devices and machines, allowing them to adapt to variable conditions or harsh environments. At the same time, customer needs have to be identified before they can be translated into consistent technical requirements. The field of Systems Engineering provides a method, a process, suitable tools and languages to cope with the complexity of various systems such as motor vehicles, robots, railways systems, aircraft and spacecraft, smart manufacturing systems, microsystems, and bio-inspired devices. It makes it possible to trace the entire product lifecycle, by ensuring that requirements are matched to system functions, and functions are matched to components and subsystems, down to the level of assembled parts. This book discusses how Systems Engineering can be suitably deployed and how its benefits are currently being exploited by Product Lifecycle Management. It investigates the fundamentals of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) through a general introduction to this topic and provides two examples of real systems, helping readers understand how these tools are used. The first, which involves the mechatronics of industrial systems, serves to reinforce the main content of the book, while the second describes an industrial implementation of the MBSE tools in the context of developing the on-board systems of a commercial aircraft.

Complexity Management

Complexity Management
Author: Michael Marti
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007-12-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 383505435X

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Michael Marti presents a complexity management model that is based on the reasoning that product architecture determines to a considerable extent how external complexity is translated into physical products. The model demonstrates a procedure to optimize a product’s architecture and is applied to several industrial products.

Security and Quality in Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering

Security and Quality in Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering
Author: Stefan Biffl
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2019-11-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030253120

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This book examines the requirements, risks, and solutions to improve the security and quality of complex cyber-physical systems (C-CPS), such as production systems, power plants, and airplanes, in order to ascertain whether it is possible to protect engineering organizations against cyber threats and to ensure engineering project quality. The book consists of three parts that logically build upon each other. Part I "Product Engineering of Complex Cyber-Physical Systems" discusses the structure and behavior of engineering organizations producing complex cyber-physical systems, providing insights into processes and engineering activities, and highlighting the requirements and border conditions for secure and high-quality engineering. Part II "Engineering Quality Improvement" addresses quality improvements with a focus on engineering data generation, exchange, aggregation, and use within an engineering organization, and the need for proper data modeling and engineering-result validation. Lastly, Part III "Engineering Security Improvement" considers security aspects concerning C-CPS engineering, including engineering organizations’ security assessments and engineering data management, security concepts and technologies that may be leveraged to mitigate the manipulation of engineering data, as well as design and run-time aspects of secure complex cyber-physical systems. The book is intended for several target groups: it enables computer scientists to identify research issues related to the development of new methods, architectures, and technologies for improving quality and security in multi-disciplinary engineering, pushing forward the current state of the art. It also allows researchers involved in the engineering of C-CPS to gain a better understanding of the challenges and requirements of multi-disciplinary engineering that will guide them in their future research and development activities. Lastly, it offers practicing engineers and managers with engineering backgrounds insights into the benefits and limitations of applicable methods, architectures, and technologies for selected use cases.

The Future of Product Development

The Future of Product Development
Author: Frank-Lothar Krause
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 719
Release: 2007-04-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540698205

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These proceedings represent trends in Product Development concerning industrial vendors and scientific research aspects. Coverage includes the following topics are covered: Design Theory, Product Design, Requirements, Collaborative Engineering, Complex Design, Mechatronics, Reverse Engineering, Virtual Prototyping, CAE, KBE and PLM. The papers presented in this book show that answers can only be composed out of a variety of solutions where psychological, economical and technical research results are taken into account.

Product Lifecycle Management: Towards Knowledge-Rich Enterprises

Product Lifecycle Management: Towards Knowledge-Rich Enterprises
Author: Louis Rivest
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2012-12-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 364235758X

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This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2012, held in Montreal, Canada, in July 2012. The 58 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They cover a large range of topics such as collaboration in PLM, tools and methodologies for PLM, modeling for PLM, and PLM implementation issues.

Information and Management Systems for Product Customization

Information and Management Systems for Product Customization
Author: Thorsten Blecker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2005-12-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387233482

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In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes. Customization means companies must meet the challenge of providing individualized products and services, without introducing high costs. Therefore, companies must address both customization and cost factors to gain a competitive advantage. While product customization is the manufacturing of products according to individual customer needs, it does not involve any focus on the cost perspective. Information and Management Systems for Product Customization will concentrate on both product customization and costs' efficiency, which is termed as mass customization. Moreover, mass customization with its multi-dimensions is the new business paradigm challenging today's manufacturing companies.

Socio-economic Systems: Paradigms for the Future

Socio-economic Systems: Paradigms for the Future
Author: Elena G. Popkova
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1728
Release: 2021-03-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030564339

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This book is reflective of a science-based vision of the future development paradigm of economic and social systems. It deals with the digitization as the technological basis for the future development of economic and social systems and presents a review of groundbreaking technologies and prospects for their application. The specific character of the industry and prospects for the application of digital technologies in business are analyzed. A rationale is provided for future prospects for the sustainable development of economic and social systems in a digital economy. The authors determine the process of the formation and development of the information-oriented society, social and educational aspects of the digitization, as well as the institutional framework of the digital future of social and economic systems. The book combines the best works following the results of the 12th International Research-to-Practice Conference “Artificial Intelligence: Anthropogenic Nature vs. Social Origin” that was held by the Institute of Scientific Communications (ISC) in cooperation with the Siberian Federal University and the Krasnoyarsk Regional Fund of support of scientific and scientific–technical activities on 5–7 December 2019, in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, as well as following the results of the 3rd International Research-to-Practice Conference “Economic and Social Systems: Paradigms for the Future” that was held by the ISC in cooperation with the Pyatigorsk State University on 5–6 February 2020. The target audience of the book consists of representatives of the academic community concerned with the future prospects for the development of economic and social systems, as well as economic agents engaged in the digitization of business processes, and representatives of public agencies regulating the development of business systems for their progressivity, sustainability and competitiveness.

Managing Business Complexity

Managing Business Complexity
Author: Michael J. North
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0195172116

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Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS), a way to simulate a large number of choices by individual actors, is one of the most exciting practical developments in business modeling since the invention of relational databases. It represents a new way to understand data and generate information that has never been available before--a way for businesses to view the future and to understand and anticipate the likely effects of their decisions on their markets and industries. It thus promises to have far-reaching effects on the way that businesses in many areas use computers to support practical decision-making.Managing Business Complexity is the first complete business-oriented agent-based modeling and simulation resource. It has three purposes: first, to teach readers how to think about ABMS, that is, about agents and their interactions; second, to teach readers how to explain the features and advantages of ABMS to other people and third, to teach readers how to actually implement ABMS by building agent-based simulations. It is intended to be a complete ABMS resource, accessible to readers who haven't had any previous experience in building agent-based simulations, or any other kinds of models, for that matter. It is also a collection of ABMS business applications resources, all assembled in one place for the first time. In short, Managing Business Complexity addresses who needs ABMS and why, where and when ABMS can be applied to the everyday business problems that surround us, and how specifically to build these powerful agent-based models.