Production management and control in construction has not been addressed/updated ever since the introduction of Critical Path Method and the Last Planner® system. The predominant outside-in control logic and a fragmented and deep supply chain in construction significantly affect the efficiency over a lifecycle. In a construction project, a large number of organisations interact with the product...

The international competitive market causes the increasing of shorten product life cycle and product development process with the improvement in term of time, cost and quality while increasing the waste generation. To reduce the waste generation, companies follow the environmental legislation and focus more and more on the product lifecycle sustainability. Sustainability on product lifecycle en...

The complexity of a mechatronic Product-Service-System (PSS), as a combination of products, IT-components and services, requires a profound system’s understanding already in the early phase of the planning process. For a lifecycle oriented planning the different lifecycles of the subsytems and their interrelations with regard to context and time, as well as overlaps through the introduction of ...

In recent years, researchers in software engineering have been exploring a range of issues on software and system architectures. One area that directly affects intelligent system is software and system architecture. Recent findings offer evidence that software architecture can be developed based on a set of well-defined concepts and methods. In this paper, we examine this line of research and i...

The paper describes MEDIS (Medical Device Information System), a system developed to support the whole lifecycle of a Clinical Investigation (CI) for Medical Devices, providing details on the approach used in its development. MEDIS is a software system that collects and manages data and documents, exchanged between an applicant and the Italian National Competent Authority during all the phases ...