Figure 4: The working system according to REFA _____________________________________________ 24 Figure 5: Areas of influence on the product development process [Ehrlenspiel 95, pg. 121] _____________ 25 Figure 6: Influencial areas of the product development process ___________________________________ 27 Figure 7: Reference Matrice of Concurrent Engineering (RMCE) _______________________________...

the first extended zeroth-order connectivity index of a graph   g is defined as 0 1/2 1 ( ) ( ) ,   v   v v g      g d      where   v   (g) is the vertex set of g, and v d is the sum of degrees of neighbors of vertex v in g. we give a sharp lower bound for the first extended zeroth-order connectivity index of trees with given numbers of vertices and pendant vertices,...

A large volume of data on variations in serum penicillin levels has been obtained from work carried out with depot preparations of procaine benzyl penicillin in oil (to be published). Figure 1 shows frequency histograms of blood levels obtained in humans 24 hours after a single fixed dose of the same preparation. Large groups of individuals were involved and there was an interesting difference ...

Large firms tend to overlap their boundaries in unstable environments and create strategic alliances and collaborations with their suppliers, customers and partners. In the automobile sector, firms are extended enterprises continuously innovating and creating new products through their dynamic capabilities. A large automotive company seeks to leverage its relationships with its customers and su...

My research in recent years has focused on the relevance of traditional drawing, specifically studio based life drawing, to the contemporary digital environment. Following on from the successful exhibit of my interactive life drawing, Caryatid, at the 2009 EVA conference my aim is to open up discussion on the relevance of traditional practice within the digital arena through an examination of m...

Collaborative design provides creative design solutions and improves product quality as well as enriches participants’ knowledge. Nevertheless, design and supply chain integration in product development processes is not a trivial task. The complex scenario of the dynamic extended enterprise triggers research toward the development of an innovative co-design platform to support multidisciplinary...

We introduce and study the extended-G geometric family of distributions, which contains as special models some important distributions such as the XTG (Xie et al. 2002) geometric, Weibull geometric, Chen (Chen 2000) geometric, Gompertz geometric, among others. This family not only includes distributions with bathtub and unimodal failure rate functions but provides a broader class of monotone fa...

An Extended Enterprise (EE) is a new form of organizing Business-to-Business (B2B) cooperation among business partners. Here, independent companies form a network to develop and deliver a product to a customer. An EE extends the concept of a virtual enterprise because it persists even after the product is delivered. Thus, the EE serves as a container for knowledge captured during product develo...