A Large Dutch Engineering Service Adopts the Best Value Approach

Engineering to help: The value of critique in engineering service

This article is a reflection on significant recent growth in engineering education programs devoted to service-learning, sustainable development, humanitarian engineering, and so on, which we group under the term “engineering to help” (ETH). ETH programs are touted for their ability to provide engineering students, mainly from wealthy nations, with an opportunity to practice small-scale enginee...

Choosing the Best Bundle of Projects: A DEA Approach

Service Engineering: a novel engineering discipline for producers to increase value combining service and product

In order to pursue sustainability, commercial activities between the supply and demand sides must be somehow changed. In the context of eco-design, producers must need a much bigger framework than is available in current eco-design techniques. This calls for establishing a new discipline. This paper aims at proposing a novel engineering discipline for producers toward sustainable production and...

Service Engineering: The Sensoria Model Driven Approach

Service engineering and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have recently been embraced by both industry and research, as they promise high reusability and maintainability, and a flexible environment for future changes in business requirements and workflows. In this paper, we present a model-driven service engineering approach called the SENSORIA Development Approach (SDA). The SENSORIA proje...

Service/Product Engineering: a new discipline for value production

Manufacturers are required to supply more services in addition to just material products to customers recently. A new methodology is necessary to create value by combining services and products in this context. To serve this need, we propose a new engineering discipline called Service/Product Engineering (SPE). SPE differs from traditional, primitive engineering and concurrent engineering in th...