During the past three decades, cost estimation systems have experienced some major technological innovations and paradigm shifts both in industry and academic research. There are numerous papers available reporting on research findings and the techniques used in cost estimation. This paper presents a review of current academic work and an evaluation of the available commercial cost estimation s...

Product/Service Systems have recently grown in manufacturers’ interest. This paper presents an international survey of manufacturers from Sweden, Japan, Italy and Germany. The results show that customer connection and demands along with increased competition were main driving forces for product/service systems. Also, most product/service systems include physical products, maintenance and repair...

The paper presents intrinsic properties of cross-organizational collaboration in shared information spaces and motivates the concept of ambient communities with particular reference to the tourism sector. Our approach is informed by an ethnographic analysis of assembling innovative information-based products for tourists. Qualitative data collection methods combined with online ‘tells’ reveal t...

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 climate challenges are confronting companies’ development activities in many ways, but particularly in terms of how to coherently address sustainability operations in advanced engineering tasks. Advanced engineering tasks are recognised to incorporate the early stages of technical product development, thereby specifically focussing innovation and the possibilities to rethink both businesses...

Manufacturing firms concentrate on their core competences to prevail in fierce competition. This concentration lead manufacturing firms to shift large shares of their value creation to their suppliers. As a result, the supply network drives the economic performance of manufacturing firms through three measures; individual performance of suppliers (1), their arrangement and the structure of the ...

Employment Protection and Product Market Competition by Sebastian Kessing A firm facing employment protection will defend its market position more fiercely than a firm operating without such restrictions. However, ex ante it will be more reluctant to expand its market position. For the benchmark case of contest competition, the defensive effect dominates. A firm facing employment protection has...

Innovation is studied to great extent in many disciplines. Especially consumer focused innovation studies are popular. Inspired by this fact the purpose of this paper is to study the new product innovation process of a specialized metal manufacturer in Northern Europe. New product innovation process is depicted and specific focus is given to new technology development to create new products for...

The main goal of this paper is to present a software solution to analyze and to detect textual based requirements in the first stage of product development. After detecting the orders and requirements, the algorithm is supposed to generate automatically the related codes used for the identical requirements. This code will be used later in a related software or machine.

Developing quality software rapidly and at low cost has been an elusive goal. Nevertheless, meeting this goal is essential in today's competitive environment where more and better products appear at accelerating rates and customers demand systems that support "what users need to do" in a natural and cost-effective manner. This paper discusses the processes used by the TeamLinks for Macintosh pr...