During the whole design process, evaluation stages are required and should consider more and more... more During the whole design process, evaluation stages are required and should consider more and more criteria but some of them are not mastered by designers. They also need support tools or methods to ease the product evaluation during the design process and avoid the subjectivity of this task, to limit the choice's risks and to allow the repeatability of the whole process. This article presents through an experiment the necessity of evaluation tools by comparing assisted and not-assisted evaluation of 9 products.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2013
In this paper, we focus on the One-of-a-Kind Production (OKP) industry, where each product is des... more In this paper, we focus on the One-of-a-Kind Production (OKP) industry, where each product is designed and manufactured based on specific customer requirements to a large extent, according to an Engineer To Order (ETO) approach. This research has been carried out among the "SIGI-X" project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE). The paper illustrates an empirical study on the state-of-the-art of information systems supporting the leading processes in OKP companies. Through a set of 21 case studies in Italian companies producing special machines, we aim to: identify and investigate strengths and weaknesses of the main OKP business processes; analyze the ICT support and its level of integration among the different ICT solutions; identify levers for improvement, concerning organizational, methodological and informatics aspects; build a practical framework that could define and link the main processes in order to obtain a sort of guideline useful for reengineering the processes, and laying the foundation for a new integrated ICT business template for OKP companies. The lack of support of three fundamental tasks such as project management, planning and cost control underlines that there is substantial room for improvement under the ICT support perspective. Finally, the development of an integrated IT environment to support (in particular) project management and planning activities, specifically addressed to OKP context, would help these companies to improve their performance and competitiveness.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
It is widely accepted that PLM represents a competitive edge for manufacturing enterprises. Time-... more It is widely accepted that PLM represents a competitive edge for manufacturing enterprises. Time-to-market reduction and increased reactivity to market's demand are PLM most known fall-outs. A local survey on PLM penetration in SME demonstrates a substantial lack of interest of SME anagement regarding PLM opportunities. Authors deal with the problem analysing reasons and solutions, thus highlighting the need of a simple tool to determine and clarify PLM advantages in the enterprise context. The first step towards the development of such a tool is the enterprise model proposed in the paper
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2017
Today many companies throughout the world recognize the need to provide outstanding service to cu... more Today many companies throughout the world recognize the need to provide outstanding service to customers: for both mass market products and products devoted to professionals, an increasing level of customization is required. This, in turn, leads to high variability in design and manufacturing processes. Hence, a structured approach to manage such variability is necessary. For an effective mass-customization program, two organizational design principles could be introduced: (i) the definition of a set of standard modules and functional criteria; (ii) the development of a tool enabling customers designing his own product. The present paper aims to analyze the impacts of a product configurator, both inside and outside of a manufacturing company. Within the internal analysis, the studied aspects include business model transformation, organization change, economic benefits. The external impacts mainly involve supply chain effects, consequences on brand perception, and impacts on society. The presented analysis is applied to a manufacturer of machines for mixing inks.
Evolution of International Standards related to the product development process requires a harmon... more Evolution of International Standards related to the product development process requires a harmonisation of technological aspects involved in the design, manufacturing and inspection phases. This paper provides a review of the state of the art in the Geometrical Product Specifications project sponsored by International Standard Organisation and outlines some important fall-outs in technological fields. Based on the most relevant results acquired by GPS project, this paper demonstrates that new solutions can be introduced to manage the technological features in mechanical objects. One of these solutions, based on a generalised probabilistic characterisation of measured surfaces, provides a unifying approach to product geometrical description along the phases of design, manufacturing and inspection. It seems able to solve some of the most annoying problems encountered in the GPS approach such as surface partitioning, surface association and uncertainty expression.
Every engineering system is designed for delivering its basic functions and Axiomatic design deve... more Every engineering system is designed for delivering its basic functions and Axiomatic design develops a list of methods able to attempt this task. The designers through axiomatic principles have to translate Functional Requirements into Geometrical Requirements and develop verification and validation procedure able to establish if the process, controlled by Physical Variables, has produced an object satisfying the Functional Requirements. Given that the product design cannot reasonably be assured if it is not coupled with a verification procedure that is unique, universal, repeatable, in this paper it is proposed an original approach to the geometrical control of product shape which exploits the potentiality embedded in the standard ISO/TS 17450-1 and in particular in the duality principle between specification and verification phases. The duality principle is only one of several tools which Geometrical Product Specification and verification (GPS) project provides to the designer to achieve axiomatic quality.
... of C1-41 XII ADM International Conference - Grand Hotel - Rimini Italy - Sept. 5th-7th, 200... more ... of C1-41 XII ADM International Conference - Grand Hotel - Rimini Italy - Sept. 5th-7th, 2001 Page 2. research and didactics. ... points C1-42 XII ADM International Conference - Grand Hotel - Rimini Italy - Sept. 5th-7th, 2001 Page 3. ...
Abstract The ecosystem of the Industry 4.0 involves many new technologies, such as autonomous mob... more Abstract The ecosystem of the Industry 4.0 involves many new technologies, such as autonomous mobile robots (AMR) and cobots (collaborative robots), these are characterized with higher flexibility and cost effectiveness which makes them more suitable for automated internal logistics systems. The evaluation of energy consumption of AMRs for a designed path in a real case scenario using analytical tools are challenging. This paper proposes a method of evaluation of the sustainability of new technologies of Industry 4.0 in internal logistics. The proposed framework demonstrates data management technique of the industrial robots. Since, the AMR with manipulator perform different tasks as a single system in logistics there is big demand to develop model of cyber physical system. During task execution measured robots’ physical parameters used as input data to perform analytics. Moreover, acquired data from different condition use cases have been used to monitor the battery behaviour of the AMR and preliminary results of the linear regression model is presented.
During the whole design process, evaluation stages are required and should consider more and more... more During the whole design process, evaluation stages are required and should consider more and more criteria but some of them are not mastered by designers. They also need support tools or methods to ease the product evaluation during the design process and avoid the subjectivity of this task, to limit the choice's risks and to allow the repeatability of the whole process. This article presents through an experiment the necessity of evaluation tools by comparing assisted and not-assisted evaluation of 9 products.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2013
In this paper, we focus on the One-of-a-Kind Production (OKP) industry, where each product is des... more In this paper, we focus on the One-of-a-Kind Production (OKP) industry, where each product is designed and manufactured based on specific customer requirements to a large extent, according to an Engineer To Order (ETO) approach. This research has been carried out among the "SIGI-X" project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE). The paper illustrates an empirical study on the state-of-the-art of information systems supporting the leading processes in OKP companies. Through a set of 21 case studies in Italian companies producing special machines, we aim to: identify and investigate strengths and weaknesses of the main OKP business processes; analyze the ICT support and its level of integration among the different ICT solutions; identify levers for improvement, concerning organizational, methodological and informatics aspects; build a practical framework that could define and link the main processes in order to obtain a sort of guideline useful for reengineering the processes, and laying the foundation for a new integrated ICT business template for OKP companies. The lack of support of three fundamental tasks such as project management, planning and cost control underlines that there is substantial room for improvement under the ICT support perspective. Finally, the development of an integrated IT environment to support (in particular) project management and planning activities, specifically addressed to OKP context, would help these companies to improve their performance and competitiveness.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
It is widely accepted that PLM represents a competitive edge for manufacturing enterprises. Time-... more It is widely accepted that PLM represents a competitive edge for manufacturing enterprises. Time-to-market reduction and increased reactivity to market's demand are PLM most known fall-outs. A local survey on PLM penetration in SME demonstrates a substantial lack of interest of SME anagement regarding PLM opportunities. Authors deal with the problem analysing reasons and solutions, thus highlighting the need of a simple tool to determine and clarify PLM advantages in the enterprise context. The first step towards the development of such a tool is the enterprise model proposed in the paper
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2017
Today many companies throughout the world recognize the need to provide outstanding service to cu... more Today many companies throughout the world recognize the need to provide outstanding service to customers: for both mass market products and products devoted to professionals, an increasing level of customization is required. This, in turn, leads to high variability in design and manufacturing processes. Hence, a structured approach to manage such variability is necessary. For an effective mass-customization program, two organizational design principles could be introduced: (i) the definition of a set of standard modules and functional criteria; (ii) the development of a tool enabling customers designing his own product. The present paper aims to analyze the impacts of a product configurator, both inside and outside of a manufacturing company. Within the internal analysis, the studied aspects include business model transformation, organization change, economic benefits. The external impacts mainly involve supply chain effects, consequences on brand perception, and impacts on society. The presented analysis is applied to a manufacturer of machines for mixing inks.
Evolution of International Standards related to the product development process requires a harmon... more Evolution of International Standards related to the product development process requires a harmonisation of technological aspects involved in the design, manufacturing and inspection phases. This paper provides a review of the state of the art in the Geometrical Product Specifications project sponsored by International Standard Organisation and outlines some important fall-outs in technological fields. Based on the most relevant results acquired by GPS project, this paper demonstrates that new solutions can be introduced to manage the technological features in mechanical objects. One of these solutions, based on a generalised probabilistic characterisation of measured surfaces, provides a unifying approach to product geometrical description along the phases of design, manufacturing and inspection. It seems able to solve some of the most annoying problems encountered in the GPS approach such as surface partitioning, surface association and uncertainty expression.
Every engineering system is designed for delivering its basic functions and Axiomatic design deve... more Every engineering system is designed for delivering its basic functions and Axiomatic design develops a list of methods able to attempt this task. The designers through axiomatic principles have to translate Functional Requirements into Geometrical Requirements and develop verification and validation procedure able to establish if the process, controlled by Physical Variables, has produced an object satisfying the Functional Requirements. Given that the product design cannot reasonably be assured if it is not coupled with a verification procedure that is unique, universal, repeatable, in this paper it is proposed an original approach to the geometrical control of product shape which exploits the potentiality embedded in the standard ISO/TS 17450-1 and in particular in the duality principle between specification and verification phases. The duality principle is only one of several tools which Geometrical Product Specification and verification (GPS) project provides to the designer to achieve axiomatic quality.
... of C1-41 XII ADM International Conference - Grand Hotel - Rimini Italy - Sept. 5th-7th, 200... more ... of C1-41 XII ADM International Conference - Grand Hotel - Rimini Italy - Sept. 5th-7th, 2001 Page 2. research and didactics. ... points C1-42 XII ADM International Conference - Grand Hotel - Rimini Italy - Sept. 5th-7th, 2001 Page 3. ...
Abstract The ecosystem of the Industry 4.0 involves many new technologies, such as autonomous mob... more Abstract The ecosystem of the Industry 4.0 involves many new technologies, such as autonomous mobile robots (AMR) and cobots (collaborative robots), these are characterized with higher flexibility and cost effectiveness which makes them more suitable for automated internal logistics systems. The evaluation of energy consumption of AMRs for a designed path in a real case scenario using analytical tools are challenging. This paper proposes a method of evaluation of the sustainability of new technologies of Industry 4.0 in internal logistics. The proposed framework demonstrates data management technique of the industrial robots. Since, the AMR with manipulator perform different tasks as a single system in logistics there is big demand to develop model of cyber physical system. During task execution measured robots’ physical parameters used as input data to perform analytics. Moreover, acquired data from different condition use cases have been used to monitor the battery behaviour of the AMR and preliminary results of the linear regression model is presented.
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