Product life cycle-based digital plant modelling method for process industry

A Concurrent Function Deployment Process for Product Life-cycle Management

In this paper, an alternate framework for deployment called Concurrent Function Deployment (CFD) for managing a product's life-cycle process is described. The framework considers parallel deployment of several value characteristics as opposed to a single value such as Quality. The American Supplier Institute's (ASI's) quality function deployment (QFD) concept [Sullivan, 1988] is a typical case ...

Optimizing Software Product Integrity through Life-Cycle Process Integration

Managed and optimized – these are the names for the levels 4 and 5 of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) respectively. With that the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) pays tribute to the fact that, after the process has been defined, higher process maturity, and with that higher product maturity, can only be achieved by improving and optimizing the life-cycle process itself. In the last thr...

Good Modelling Practice keywords: simulation modelling process, modelling life-cycle, quality-assessment, evaluation of modelling products

Introduction Modeling and simulation is nowadays a standard tool in the toolbox of many workers in the different fields of applied sciences. In The Netherlands several hundreds of modelers are involved in modelling for water management. But modelling might be a routinely applied method to investigate problems, it is not straightforward, but rather subjective, depending on the modelling team and...

Neural networks in process life cycle profit modelling

Changes in operational environment of the process industry such as decreasing selling prices, increased competition between companies and new legislation, set requirements for performance and effectiveness of the industrial production lines and processes. For the basis of this study, a life cycle profit (LCP) model of a pulp process was constructed using different kind of process information in...

An Ecodesign Method for Product Architecture Definition Based on Optimal Life-cycle Strategies