As systems become larger, more complex, and operate for longer periods of time, some change within the system often becomes inevitable. Particularly in systems of systems, with diverse stakeholders, evolutionary development and managerial independence, it is not unusual for constituent systems to change in form or the way they operate. Changeability, the ability of a system to change, is often ...

Abstract The smart factories that are already beginning to appear employ a completely new approach product creation. Smart products uniquely identifiable and know both their current status alternative routes achieving target state. allow individual customer requirements be met, meaning even one-off items can manufactured profitably. In industry, dynamic business engineering processes enable las...

For anthropologists and archaeologists, the study of cultural change is greatest challenge. Initially, subject was considered from perspectives that included too few variables, resulting in an approximation proved to be incomplete inadequate. Since end last century, important efforts have been made document a broader context, revealing variability processes involved. These new studies highlight...

This document contains an approach to map the changeability possibilities of machine tools used on the shop floor onto line management understandable business processes. The identified gap is a lack of information transparency on the line management level due to constraints, complexity and speed of a production process on the shop floor. Especially medium-sized enterprises in the supplier secto...

Abstract In this paper, we bring together two concepts that have been developing separately over recent years, to challenge linear and simplistic notions of migrant integration, depict multi-dimensional processes settling changeability time. The concept embedding has proposed capture dynamism beyond the more static notion Granovetter’s embeddedness. explores contexts contingencies where how mig...