Coupled activities are the main reasons to cause collaboration in product development (PD) process. Previous modeling approaches such as Petri net, IDEF and DSM fail to represent the collaboration characteristic of PD process well. Considering the characteristics of optoelectronic PD process especially for demand of collaborative development, this paper proposes the process planning framework, ...

Process planning activities are critical in manufacturing distributed environments where different companies need to collaborate in product development. In this work, we propose a workflow model for a collaborative process planning environment in which original equipment manufacturer and suppliers companies interact with the help of Product Lifecycle Management and CAD/CAM tools. The proposed w...

In Glasgow, an inter-institutional approach to teaching design engineering students is fostered through the particular nature of the teaching and learning environment, the management of students, the structure of the projects, and the content and delivery of the technical and nontechnical elements. These engineering students are encouraged to work in teams, to take a user-orientated approach, t...

1 Extended Abstract The influence of a usability team in a particular organization and its products depends partly on the organizational structure and culture and partly on the skill set in the usability team itself. Once management decides to embrace usability, the integration of a usability team should therefore be considered very carefully in light of the existing organizational structure an...

DSP processing power of the product itself is used more and more to replace external measurement and test instruments leading to lower investment costs at manufacturing. This is affecting greatly on test strategies used in product development. Design for Testing (DFT) has to be considered in very early design phases and consists integral part of the later design and implementation phases, too. ...

Product management in software product companies is complex due to the many intertwined information flows on releases, products and requirements, and the high number of different stakeholders that are involved. We propose the Software Product Management Workbench for operational support of requirements management, release planning, product roadmapping, and portfolio management. In this paper, w...

This work aims at explicitly modelling key concepts of the evolution process to support the product development process of complex multi-disciplinary systems such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems. The key concepts span over different domains of the product development process: product use (workflow models), system functionality (Function–Behaviour–State modelling), component interfac...