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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Product Lifecycle"”.
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The Storage of Parametric Data in Product Lifecycle Management Systems
Product development companies are continually seeking methods to increase efficiency while maintaining quality. Distributed development is also more important than ever before as industries globalize. These forces have driven firms to adopt formal data management practices that allow groups and …
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Enabling Connections in the Product Lifecycle using the Digital Thread
Product lifecycles are complex heterogeneous systems. Applying control methods to lifecycles requires significant human capital. Additionally, measuring lifecycles relies primarily on domain expertise and estimates. Presented in this dissertation is a way to semantically represent a product …
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Demand forecasting at Zara : a look at seasonality, product lifecycle and cannibalization
… stores in more than 86 countries. Their high product mix and vast global network makes demand forecasting for Zara a challenging endeavor. This thesis sets out to incorporate the effects from seasonality, product lifecycle, and cannibalization into a long term aggregate demand forecast and a …
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Model-based Approach for Product Requirement Representation and Generation in Product Lifecycle Management
… collection of certain information to specify the product and its life-cycle activities in terms of functions, features, performance, constraints, production, maintenance, disposal process, etc. It contains mainly two phases; product requirement generation and representation. Appropriate criteria …
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Functional and Behavioral Product Information Representation and Consistency Validation for Collaboration in Product Lifecycle Activities
… are critical in the conceptual development of a product and its evaluation. Much research has been conducted in this area; however, existing models do not relate function, behavior and structure in a comprehensive and consistent way. In this work, NIST's Core Product Model (CPM) and the Open …
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A product lifecycle framework for environmental management and policy analysis : case study of automobile recycling
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1995.
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Developing a Design Space Model Using a Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Schema in a Product Lifecycle Management System to Capture Knowledge for Reuse
… companies are moving toward increased use of product lifecycle management (PLM). More applications are being integrated into PLM as its usage increases; however, it has not to date been able to fully embrace the sophisticated knowledge model demands of engineering design. It has functioned …
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Towards a feedback design process using Digital Thread
… together information generated from across the product lifecycle. Though Digital Thread is gaining traction as a digital communication framework to streamline design, manufacturing, and operational processes in order to more efficiently design, build and maintain engineering products, a …
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IMPACT OF INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION ON THE LIFECYCLE OF PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS: A Science and Risk Based Perspective
… expertise in pharmaceutical regulation, product lifecycle or technology, validated the theoretical and operational evidence and supported the same four main pharmaceutical transformation triggers.A quality risk model derived from the survey indicated a firm relationship between the …
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New product forecasting of appliance and consumables : moving average model
… goal of this project is to forecast their new products, including appliance and consumable pods. The forecasting tool should serve as a systematic demand planning tool to generate the product sales forecast in a strategic and operational level throughout the different stages of the product …
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End-of-life cycle product management
… leadership requires effective management of product life cycle, starting from the launch of a new product until its retirement. In this particular project, an exploratory study of business practices in the management of products in the decline phase and the eventual decision of product …
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Ontology Development and Utilization in Product Design
… the potential to reduce design time, decrease product cost and enhance product quality. PDM (Product Data Management) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) are two types of computer-based information systems that have been developed to manage product lifecycle and product related data. While …
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Lovable sustainability : from residential solar PV systems to eco-feedback designs
Traditional research in sustainable product design strongly emphasizes the material and energy domains and aims to reduce resource consumption and waste production in the manufacturing process and at the end of the product lifecycle. Less attention has been paid to products' environmental impact in …
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Innovation enabling manufacturing processes
… methodologies. In a continuous drive for product innovation, process development often takes on lower priority to other initiatives that directly affect the design and delivery of a product. However, existing literature shows that process development and governance are critical to …
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Optimizing inventory levels using financial, lifecycle and forecast variance data
… leader in graphics and media processors. ATI's product-centric culture has long deterred attention from supply chain efficiency. Given that manufacturing lead time exceeds customer order lead time for its semiconductors, ATI relies heavily on their demand forecasting team to instigate supply …
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Identifying supply chain strategies of firms with best supply chain performance
… chain planning, fulfillment, service management, product lifecycle management, and, manufacturing. Another objective of our thesis is to relate domain performance of the firm with the firm's value proposition. The three value propositions considered in the thesis are product leadership/innovation, …
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BIO-INSPIRED DESIGN METHODOLOGY BASED ON A SEMANTIC MAP, USEABLE IN CAD ENVIRONMENT
New product development forms part of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) which starts with the idea generation phase. This first step exerts an enormous impact on the reduction of costs and could subsequently produce a high return on investment. That is the underlying motivation for this research, …
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Discrete event simulation based study of a PLM software network
… describing the data storage and data flow in a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software network has been developed in this study. Discrete event simulation (DES) has been used to represent this flow of data and queuing models have been used to represent the hardware components of the network. …
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Ship design through Axiomatic Design approach, sustainable engineering principles and artificial intelligence methods
… must be considered in every stage of a product lifecycle, from conceptual design to its retirement. Even though this sustainability-centric approach represents a critical driver for innovation, it also increases the design complexity. Nowadays, the maritime transport accounts for a large …
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