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Tactical planning consists of developing production plans to fulfill client demands with a minimal logistic cost. However, plans generated by classical models for tactical planning do not consider a minimum financial need in terms of Working Capital Requirements (WCR) to maintain the activities related to the operating cycle. In this paper, we introduce a first link between tactical planning and the...
Planning in a multi-site, non-mass production environment is a special challenge because of several sources of uncertainty. Unlike in mass production facilities, in our setting the current state at all sites cannot be determined easily and exactly due to the spatial distribution of sites and the low degree of automation. For re-planning in case of failures, the possible alternative actions have to...
This paper describes the study methodology for network planning based on reconfiguration transmission network to Facilitate operate the network in reliable, secure and efficient way. All operating areas within country grid are interconnected through transmission network which consider as a source feeding sub transmission network. The underlying sub transmission network, being electrically parallel...
Ongoing developments in the electricity system are changing the requirements for planning and design of distribution networks. Based on field research at several Dutch distribution network operators a conceptual planning process is defined and current practices in distribution network planning in the Netherlands are investigated. Currently mainly traditional deterministic approaches are applied, but...
User experience (UX) has become an increasingly important factor in the success or failure of software systems. However, established agile practices for ensuring desired UX of the software under development are largely missing. Consequently, companies are facing problems in conducting UX work in agile development. This paper contributes towards understanding those problems and developing means to...
Keeping Information Systems (IS) aligned with the corporations' strategy plan is a controversial issue. The aim of this paper is to prepare an expert system based on intelligent softbots and prepare and propose a portfolio of IS that has the maximum alignment with the strategy plan. Attaining such an issue, an expert system, which emerges through the implementation of a credible methodology, is proposed...
The continuous occupation of niches within product ranges and the corresponding decrease in product differentiation are significant challenges for manufacturing companies. To address this challenge a methodology has been developed which allows recommendations for the positioning of new products within the product range in order to optimize the product differentiation. Unlike other approaches, this...
Increasing product variety and high cost pressure are significant challenges for manufacturing companies. One approach to face the dilemma between economies of scale and scope is the development of product architectures. This implicates new challenges for both development process and organization. Defined processes and roles are necessary to support product architecture development. A recent survey...
As a discipline, project management has been accused of having lost its relevance for innovative initiatives because it emphasizes planning and control over the flexibility and learning-based strategies that are needed to succeed under uncertainty. Several authors therefore recommend adaptive project management practices - sometimes named “targeted flexibility” - that respond to project characteristics...
Globalization and advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are changing the business and manufacturing processes. The new model for manufacturing systems, even for mass production industry, is demanding more flexibility and agility in manufacturing installations. Although ICT and Automation Technology (AT) provide most of these features, the manufacturing installation cannot dismiss...
The importance of linking efficiently the outputs of R&D processes with the business world has become evident. Researchers and practitioners have developed tools to help build business from a starting-point (business-idea) to the description of elements that make the business possible. The Business Model Canvas (BMC) identifies the essential parts of a business; it's applicability and simplicity...
In recent years, researchers have been focusing on innovations launched from emerging countries. Former studies have shown that these innovations rooted deeply in not only particular emerging countries markets' needs but also their unique spirits. In order to reveal the differences and investigating the reasons of the “unique” spirits, a comparative experiment has been conducted between Thai and Japanese...
Ward Cunningham in his experience report presented at the OOPSLA'92 conference introduced the metaphor of technical debt. This metaphor is related to immature, incomplete or inadequate artifacts in the software development cycle that cause higher costs and lower quality. A strategy for the technical debt management is still a challenge because its definition is not yet part of the software development...
The Engineer-To-Order business encompasses companies producing a broad range of industrial products. Projects in this business are becoming increasingly complex, both from a technical and a management perspective. In this context, standardization programs have become a common approach to improve competitiveness and profitability of ETO companies. Standardization programs have their origin in the product...
This article presents a Facilities Planning project for fostering creative performance in the workplace of an IT developing company. The study of workspaces designed for encouraging creative and innovative outcomes in organizations is a developing field that still receives little academic attention despite the possible gains it can bring to workers and organizations. In order to address this issue...
The technology roadmapping field has evolved over time from the first and second generation technology roadmaps to the current third generation roadmaps. As a strategy and policy formulation tool, technology roadmaps proved to be useful in facilitating learning and consensus across the firm or across the industry. Similarly, technology roadmaps have been used as a process to operationalise the strategies...
Taekwondo tournament logistics as a special kind of logistics activity, deeply affect the rapid development of the logistics industry China sports. This paper used the method of literature, logical reasoning, analyze the demand situation of Taekwondo tournament logistics, propose the present stage appears Taekwondo tournament logistics problems in the development process, and on this basis to explore...
This work consists in presenting an information system for planning routes for deliveries of goods. A company that has many products to be delivered in different places find it difficult to define the best combination of loads to be carried, and what better vehicle availability, and lower cost route for the delivery of goods in load order. With the system it is intended itinerary delivery of the goods...
Effort estimation is a project management activity that is mandatory for the execution of software projects. Despite its importance, there have been just a few studies published on such activities within the Agile Global Software Development (AGSD) context. Their aggregated results were recently published as part of a secondary study that reported the state of the art on effort estimation in AGSD...
The planning of distribution network is faced with a great challenge when large-scale renewable energy mostly wind power entering into power system. This paper proposes a bi-level programming model considering distributed wind generation (DWG) allocation in the active distribution network environment which introduces active management fee (AMF) concept firstly. The bi-level programming is a complex...
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