This study puts forward a generic and comprehensive costing framework for software projects that aims for simplicity. This is achieved by integrating commonly used CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) and PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) costing concepts in a broader organizational context. The costing framework comprises three layers: costing targets, costing activities, an...

This paper unifies and extends several different existing strategies for deploying groups of robots in an environment. A cost function is proposed that can be specialized to represent widely different multi-robot deployment tasks. It is shown that geometric and probabilistic deployment strategies that were previously seen as distinct are in fact related through this cost function, and differ on...

Manufacturers are required to supply more services in addition to just material products to customers recently. A new methodology is necessary to create value by combining services and products in this context. To serve this need, we propose a new engineering discipline called Service/Product Engineering (SPE). SPE differs from traditional, primitive engineering and concurrent engineering in th...

Tolerance design plays a major role in the quality of the product life cycle. Its purpose not only can ensure the products quality. At the same time, it monitors the product manufacturing costs. The traditional the tolerance design devotes to the optimization target of minimizing the manufacturing cost. But due to the manufacturing process of a product, there is a nonlinear relation between tol...

this research aims at presenting a consolidated model of data envelopment analysis (dea) technique and value engineering to select the best manufacturing methods for gate valve covers and ranking the methods using topsis.to do so, efficiency evaluation indices were selected based on the value engineering approach and different manufacturing methods were evaluated using dea technique.finally, ef...

This paper reports on a case study that describes the implementation of activity-based costing (ABC) for a Taiwan communication company. Through an in-depth field investigation over a communicationequipment factory, the ABC was invoked to analyze the cost generated by the actual production processes in the present study. The company’s existing cost system adopts a rough estimate based to alloca...

in this project, first we introduced a general rule for the design of drying processes and then, we have applied microsoft excel for this purpose. belt dryer is one of the most common dryers in the food industry. in this study, our aim was to process carrot by this dryer. we optimized the target function (total annual cost or tac) and investigated the influence of design variables on this targe...

The increasing popularity of virtualized services and cloud computing, offering elastic and scalable computing resources challenges software engineering methods by asking a number of new questions: How can we integrate deployment-specific information in the overall design of software applications? How can we express and compare deployment decisions in the design phase, so that performance diagn...

This paper describes how to design and implement an integrated the Activity-Based Costing method with the Economic Value Added performance measurement system to determine costs as well as measure performance. Motivation for switching to an integrated ABC-and-EVA system is presented. Pre-implementation and implementation steps are illustrated using data from an actual implementation of the syste...