Applying Concurrent Engineering in a company has a significant influence on the way information is dealt with. This influence is discernible for information on orders, products and resources. The impact of this influence on the product is determined, from which an extended role for the product information structure comes forward. On this product information structure, the overall product life c...

Sometimes , products resulting from design for environment (DFE) endeavours are sub-optimisations from an environmental perspective, because the tool determines the process and not vice versa. For a more systematic way of getting the focus right, a hierarchy of focusing is introduced: 1. What is the function provided and what is the optimal way of providing it while making a business out of it?...

This paper reveals that logistics may conservatively amount to 18% of the levelized cost of energy for offshore wind farms. This is the key finding from an extensive case study carried out within the organization of the world’s leading offshore wind farm developer and operator. The case study aimed to, and produced, a number of possible opportunities for offshore wind cost reductions through lo...

As a matter of fact, SOA-based systems have a huge internal complexity due to plenty of services. On the one hand, this complexity enables and strongly supports the flexible alignment of the enterprise architecture with business processes. On the other hand, it requires a special management and control framework – provided by SOA Governance. For IT Governance, many accepted approaches exist. In...

Agile software development methods have been developed and evolved since early 1990s. Due to the short development life cycle through an iterative and incremental process, the agile methods have been used widely in business sectors where requirements are relatively unstable. This paper explains the differences between traditional software development methods and agile software development metho...

Substation refurbishment planning was traditionally initiated by deteriorated network performance indices and the physical observed state of the network. However, it can also be too late, resulting in deteriorated customer service and unnecessary company risk. A Plant Health Index is developed, to understand and assess the condition of equipment during its life cycle. The plant health index wil...

What is the secret behind the highly success of Apple Inc.? How the Brand has conquered a considerable proportion of the market share as increased Brand Loyalty with the new Tablet product of Ipad? The answer is already given: Brand Loyalty. This paper attempts to analyze the principal factors and activities that conform his Marketing Strategy, and the advantages and disadvantages of a Price Sk...

For several years, digital engineering has increasingly taken a more important place in the strategic issues of mechanical engineering companies. Our proposition is an approach that enables technical data to be managed and used throughout the product life-cycle. This approach aims to provide assistance for costing, development and industrialization of the product, and for the capitalization, th...

  A product life cycle is the life span of a product in which the period begins with the initial product specification and ends with the withdrawal from the market of both the product and its support. A product life cycle can be divided into several stages characterized by the revenue generated by the product. This study investigates inventory control policies in a manufacturing system for a si...

As companies try to maintain and strengthen their competitive advantage, they should be aware of the level digital maturity. The study aims present a methodology that helps determine position small medium-sized enterprise in maturity life-cycle. This is performed on basis models, company growth theories. A number studies models have been prepared various sectoral criteria, but these are all one...