Ever more complex engineering processes, shorter product lifecycles, increasing cost pressure and a wider range of product variants force plant manufacturers and operators to enhance adaptivity and interoperability of their plants. In addition to the modularization of hardware, this requires a high degree of flexibility of the associated software. In view of these challenges methods and mechani...

In this paper we discuss our development of the Emotion Sampling Device (ESD). We introduce the major properties of the device and advocate the need for a tool that can be effectively incorporated into product development lifecycles to inform the usability evaluation process as well as other areas of product design. As well as providing an insight into the properties of the ESD and to what exte...

We present a case study that utilizes UML modeling methodology for typical business applications. Such applications generally contain a GUI front-end for manipulating database tables and are object-relational systems that deal with both relational databases and object-oriented technology. To model such applications, we use UML Profiles and metamodels based on a three-tiered application architec...

For all companies that consider their Information Technology Department to be of strategic value, it is important to incorporate an innovation value chain into their software development lifecycles to enhance their teams’ performance. One model is TDD (Test-Driven Development), which is a process that detects failures and improves the productivity and quality of the team’s work. Data were colle...

Shortening product lifecycles and small lot sizes require manufacturing systems to adapt increasingly fast. Many existing machine tools, handling and logistics systems provide a generic functionality that is not bound to a specific product. But this flexibility and reconfigurability on the level of individual resources is lost in automated systems that are limited to the production of a fixed s...

All successful infrastructure products and processes exemplify the collaboration of engineering economics in space time. In their respective domains, two specialized professions optimize supply demand (S / D) energy money. If priorities diverge, structural economic failures result. The various stages a bridge lifecycle transitions between them are examined as vulnerable nodes links where diverg...

Abstract In order to achieve the CO 2 targets stipulated within Paris Agreement, future buildings must be constructed in such a way, that their emission profile will close zero. this, radical shift towards circular construction manner which encompasses topics like material reuse (i.e. design for multiple lifecycles), design-for-disassembly (allowing maximum recovery of materials and minimizatio...

Distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems have become critical in domains such as avionics (e.g., flight mission computers), telecommunications (e.g., wireless phone services), tele-medicine (e.g., robotic surgery), and defense applications (e.g., total ship computing environments). These types of systems are increasingly interconnected via wireless and wireline networks to form systems ...