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Globalization causes many challenges for companies in the branch of industrial production. The Project Business Layer Model uses a cybernetic approach as one step to deal with this problem. The central elements of this model are Business Processes which describe activities, tasks, and work steps to create products or services. Business Processes can be used to enable real-time optimization of the...
Modern process plants are becoming more and more complex with high demands placed on design, engineering and operation. Throughout the life cycle of process plants, there is always the typical conflict involving costs, time and quality. One way of resolving this conflict is to employ simulation technology as it can be used to answer questions relating to engineering and operation earlier and with...
The focus onto the final customer is one of the major sources to design and improve the value adding processes of a company. By having the customer's delight [1] in the mind it is required to direct the majority of processes to this delightful momentum. End-to-end supply chain management is exactly stressing on this focus. However, this end-to-end point of view is not new: the customer order cycle...
Given today's slow economic growth, reduced plant engineering and maintenance staffing and tight capital budget constraints, understanding how best to propose, plan, execute and allocate limited resources for successful process control system migrations is imperative for manufacturers seeking to maintain or increase productivity and efficiencies. Unfortunately, there is little published data on best...
An increasing number of companies are distributing their software production processes around the world, for productivity gains, cost savings and quality improvements. Software engineers have recognized the great influence of this form of work and are looking for models to facilitate projects with distributed teams. In addition to the engineers also project managers have faced challenges at different...
Micro and small companies in the software area now represent more than 90% of organizations in the country and grow 6% annually on average. However, no planning in these companies in business continuity management contributes to their mortality when problems occur as disasters and disruption of system services. The implementation of IT Service Continuity Management as a tool for planning would be...
Participating in and the coordination of innovation networks is very complex and difficult. In particular in loosely coupled networks of small and medium sized enterprises with the goal to develop knowledge intensive products and services. In the past these enterprises developed key competences due to the specialization on nice markets. Unfortunately these competences are no longer enough to develop...
The paper argues that an optimization of product development processes can be achieved through detailed description of the relationships in the product model as well as the relationships in the design and production process. This is especially true under rapidly changing market conditions when the design process is not only determined by the design task but by constant outside change requests that...
This paper deals with fibreless optical link in combining with Radio Frequency (RF) link. Each of links has advantages which make them convenient for reliable high speed communication link The transmission medium is air for both links. Atmospheric phenomena cause decreasing of transmitted signal in different ways. The fog, dust and small particles are critical parameter for Free Space Optics (FSO)...
Process mining consists of mining event logs generated from business process execution supported by Information Systems (IS). Process mining of software repositories has diverse applications because vast data is generated during Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and archived in IS such as Version Control System (VCS), Peer Code Review (PCR) System, Issue Tracking System (ITS), and mail archives...
Software Configuration Management (SCM) auditing is the fourth of four sub processes recommended by the IEEE and the ACM in this area. This research is the continuation of ongoing experiments in the use of heuristics for predicting fault rates in systems that support SCM. This paper allocates financial indicators to the business model for a hypothetical Telecommunications company and predicts the...
Six Sigma has been used by large companies to improve the performance of their manufacturing processes. However, the interest and the application of this methodology in small and medium size companies is something emerging, despite being little widespread in the literature. This article shows the applicability of Six Sigma in a small Brazilian company, explaining the application strategy and its impacts...
This paper follows DMAIC methodology of six sigma to identify and analyze the root causes of the problem of damage of ACP (Aluminum Composite Panel) sheets which leads to customer complaint and suggest solutions to counter it. This problem not only leads to decreased profits but also loss of revenue, loss of market share, and customer dissatisfaction.
Recent years have seen the popularization of model based development (MBD) using models based on block diagrams. In many mechatronics systems, including automobile engine control and the brake control, a closed loop control is used to manage controls based on feedback data from control target objects. In order to develop a closed loop control using model base, a plant model that simulates the behavior...
Many companies struggle with unexpectedly high maintenance costs for their software development which are often caused by insufficient code quality. Although companies often use static analyses tools, they do not derive consequences from the metric results and, hence, the code quality does not actually improve. We provide an experience report of the quality consulting company CQSE, and show how code...
This paper is based on frequently changing face of software development industry and to remain in the competition, organizations have to engage with the new situations every day. Agile methodology is known to maintain the speed which is essential to remain in the competition, along with it, there is a need of improvement at each step which can be covered by following CMMI. This paper shows how the...
The capability to shorten the process of engineering technical systems, from the mission to build the system to the final commissioning of the system, has become a critical factor for company success. This engineering process has become a time and money consuming part of the overall life cycle of a technical system. Common approaches for tackling this problem are the improvement of functions of isolated...
In order to have a successful software development in Global Software Development (GSD) environment, GSD community needs to define RE process by considering the situational characteristics. Currently Requirement Engineers (RE) are facing challenges in identification of the possible situational factors that can influence RE activities. There is a lack of such framework which can help requirement engineers...
This article describes the basic principles of the company operations and provides the survey of software systems that implement various methods of planning. The theoretical relationship between strategic and tactical planning in modern software systems is defined. A new conceptual framework for interaction between strategic and tactical planning through business processes is proposed.
Nowadays, companies are more than ever forced to dynamically adapt their business process executions to currently existing business situations in order to keep up with increasing market demands in global competition. Companies that are able to analyze the current state of their processes, forecast its most optimal progress and proactively control them based on reliable predictions will be a decisive...
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