Information technology can only support concurrent engineering if engineering works are well understood. The prevailing approach to do this is process modeling. We found, however, that traditional process modeling techniques such as IDEF0 obscure some aspects of human works, such as communication, collaboration, coordination, client-worker relations and client satisfaction and suggest an ideali...

Considering environmental impacts in the design phase of chemical processes is one of the greatest challenges for the chemical industry. In this work, we propose a systematic process design procedure that incorporates Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as an environmental metric in addition to the conventional economic optimization. Integration Definition Function Modeling (IDEF0) is used to represent...

We present an activity model of novel chemical process design. This model defines different stages of early process design, i.e. process chemistry and conceptual design, with appropriate process evaluation indicators. Environmental, health and safety (EHS) aspects are considered new assessment criteria together with conventional economic and technical indicators. The type-zero method of Integra...

Many tools are in use for representing and analyzing business processes, but little information is available on how these tools are used in practice by process design teams. This paper analyzes one process mapping workshop in detail. Over three days, two facilitators and five representatives of the organization and business functions redesigned the core auto insurance business at a mid-size Swi...

Supply chain management is about improving the products, processes and functioning of the chain of enterprises involved in the delivery of products and services from raw materials. This paper provides a brief review of supply chain management and reviews some supply chain transformation methodologies. A standard methodology that guides in the transformation of the supply chain is presented. Als...

Many experts state that: a) specifying "all the small parts of a system" and b) correct expected system usage, can make Agile Software Development more effective. Unified Modeling Method (UML) addresses the former; Usability Engineering addresses the later. Taken together, they create a systems de-velopment framework, capable of: a) specifying functions, data, behavior and usage, b) rapid proto...