Hierarchies of adaptable learning during product development

Tourassis, Vassilios D.; Chatzimichali, Anna

Abstract

Shorter product lifecycles, shrinking time-to-market and increasing global competition, drive companies to premature transitions from the development laboratory to full-scale commercial production. This ramp-up period is usually considered as a transient phenomenon and often ignored by a large body of literature. Hence, the current push for accelerated development and quality manufacturing of new products, has increased the need to model and measure production performance during ramp-up. Despite this need for a concrete framework of these early stages of the product life cycle, a useful model of ramp-up, formalizing this tradeoff between product design and process modeling during the execution phase, is missing. In this context the present work deals with this issue throught a structured methodology that highlights the system sensitivities by decoupling process and product design, proposing an algorithm that uses empirical evaluation measures of manufacturing complexity. © 2011 IEEE.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
• Acceptance Date: May 4, 2011
• Publication Date: Dec 23, 2011
• Deposit Date: Sep 25, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 25, 2018
• Journal: Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
• Print ISSN: 1062-922X
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 458-464
• ISBN: 9781457706523
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083708
• Keywords: ramp-up, new product development, learning curve
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/957548
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083708
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• Contract Date: Sep 25, 2018