Corresponding Author: Edson OliveiraJr Informatics Department, State University of Maringá, Avenida Colombo, 5790, Maringá-PR, Brazil Email: [email protected] Abstract: Variability management is one of the most important activities during software product line development and evolution. Current literature presents several approaches for variability management, especially based on UML, such as, P...

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is a systematic and holistic way to approach challenges that exist in managing product related information along products’ lifecycle from product design to its disposal. There is an established set of information management approaches that address important subsets of lifecycle information management challenges, e.g. product data management (PDM), ERP and CRM....

1. Introduction A process capability index is a numerical summary that compares the behavior of a product or process characteristic to engineering specifications. These measures are also often called capability or performance indices or ratios; we use capability index as the generic term. A capability index relates the voice of the customer (specification limits) to the voice of the process. A ...

At present, China's aerospace product development mission are characterized by mammoth task and high responsibility, in which situation, the role of knowledge in business process is particularly prominent. Although we have realized the importance of the problem, and embarked on the accumulation job, the problem faced is that we lack the criteria to judge our harvest, which spontaneously caused ...

Software product line has emerged as an attractive phenomenon within organizations dealing with software development process. It involves assembly of products from existing core assets, commonly known as components, and continuous growth in the core assets as production proceeds. Organizations trying to incorporate the concept of software product line to reduce development time and cost require...

Many types of three dimensional mechanisms (3Dmechanism) are used in modern industry. Specially, in automation technology, product engineering and robotics, 3D-mechanisms play the key roles of complicated manipulation, 3D positioning and 3D measurement. Usually, the repeatability of 3D-mechanism is tested and evaluated. However, when we use 3D-mechanism in wide purposes and in wide conditions, ...