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Customer integration is an integral element of the innovation process today. Yet, despite the potential for integrating external knowledge into new product development (NPD) processes, companies often fail to benefit sufficiently from customer integration. Research attributes this failure to restricted absorptive capacity, intellectual property concerns, or the ''not-invented-here'' syndrome bu...

In this work we consider the simulation of a mixed-dimensional model for viscous fiber melt spinning semi-crystalline polymers including radial effects on temperature and crystallinity. We present suitable algorithm based product integration method an analytical solution advection-diffusion equation. A numerical convergence performance analysis confirms that our approach results in accurate eff...

In 1942, Henry Sigerist questioned the idea that "the German way in public health was to enforce health through the police while the English way consisted in acting through education and persuasion".2 Contrasts of this kind have, however, remained commonplace throughout the twentieth century.3 In the 1950s, George Rosen sought to reframe the history of public health in order to understand how i...

New product development (NPD) is indeed the cornerstone for companies to maintain and enhance the competitive edge. However, developing new products is a complex and risky decision-making process. It involves a search of the environment for opportunities, the generation of project options, and the evaluation by different experts of multiple attributes, both qualitative and quantitative. To perc...

Article history: Received 17 November 2010 Received in revised form 3 August 2011 Accepted 6 August 2011 Available online 6 September 2011 Little research has examined how international firms' operations strategies affect dynamic capability creation or how cultural distance affects operations management. This study addresses these gaps by bridging the work on dynamic capabilities, two operation...

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BACKGROUND Simpson ejection fraction, wall motion score index, atrioventricular (AV) plane displacement and fractional shortening are all established formal echocardiographic methods for the assessment of left ventricular systolic function. Visually estimated (eyeballing) ejection fraction may be considered somewhat more subjective, although shown to correlate well with radionuclide ventriculog...

The product data exchange between heterogeneous CAD and PDM systems is a crucial issue for the integration of product development systems. STEP offers an ef®cient mechanism of product data exchange between heterogeneous systems. This paper introduces a UML-based mapping methodology for the product data models. The suggested mapping method has been applied to exchange the product structure data ...