The inherent iterative nature of product design and development poses significant challenge to reduce the product design and development time (PD). In order to shorten the time to market, organizations have adopted concurrent development where multiple specialized tasks and design activities are carried out in parallel. Iterative nature of work coupled with the overlap of activities can result ...

This document talks about the usage of Simulation Data Exchange (SDX) (Moorthy 1999) in order to enable a consistent digital model of automotive factories. The scope of the digital model is to plan and analyze the factory by using different software packages. Thus the model doesn’t exist in only one application. Therefore the consistency in terms of geometry and process data needs to be guarant...

The proliferation of just-in-sequence (JIS) deliveries has raised the vulnerability of assemblies to costly production stoppages or rework due to missing components. Through a comprehensive real-time supply chain monitoring systems, these supply issues can be detected early and affected orders removed from planned assembly sequences in time to avoid production disturbances. Using simulation ana...

Recently, in Mathematical and Computational Applications Journal Chiu et al. [1] and Chen and Chiu [2] propose an inventory model based on EPQ with rework to determine the replenishment lot size and the number of shipments for a vendor-buyer integrated production-inventory system. They solve the inventory problem by considering both variables as continuous. However, the number of shipments must...

In this paper, we investigate the usage of BehaviourInteraction-Priority version 2 (BIP2), a component-based modelling framework, for specifying feature-oriented systems. We evaluate BIP2 in the context of the Feature Interaction Problem and quantify the amount of work needed to add features to an existing system (i.e., in terms of rework to existing features, and work to identify and specify i...

This paper describes a system-level SoC energy consumption estimation method based on a dynamic behavior of embedded software in the early stages of the SoC development. A major problem of SOC development is development rework caused by unreliable energy consumption estimation at the early stages. The energy consumption of an SoC used in embedded systems is strongly affected by the dynamic beha...

The failure of information systems has been partially the result of incorrect or inefficient rework in the development of the systems. If greater transparency can be made in the decision making process then the number of examples of incorrect or inefficient rework could be reduced. Transparency in the process of development can be achieved through identifying and tracking the components of the ...

Abstract Feedback loops are a key characteristic of engineering design processes that increase complexity, time to market, and costs. However, some feedback loops, due iteration, have positive impact on outcomes (i.e., the quality final design), so worth costs incurred. Other resulting from rework, also but their current projects, in terms urgency interruption, is high. Thus, overall, drawing s...