I describe our approach and mechanisms to support the engineering of organizational processes throughout their life cycle. I describe our current understanding of what activities are included in the process life cycle. I then go on to describe our approach , computational mechanisms, and experiences in supporting many of these life cycle activities, as well as compare it to other related eeorts...

In this paper an innovative approach is presented, which enables modeling and exchanging information about the uncertainty of product properties along the product life cycle providing improvement for product development. A system which is called “COPE” (Collaborative Ontology-based Property Engineering System) is proposed, which uses the advantages of an ontologybased approach. The proposed sys...

Today a lot of small, medium and also large companies have a project organizational setup. This means that the major part of the development activities are gathered thru the conduction of a project that at its completion will deliver a new version of the product. In this situation managing versions and resources for some of the product components (subsystems) could be a problem or performed in ...

Abstract Digital Twins are virtual representations of a product-service-instance and, as technology, represent an important part the realization Industry 4.0. They manage data associat-ed product instance and can also have functions for simulation to achieve cost resource savings while simultaneously increasing quality. In this paper, need action implementation systematic approach returning int...

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As technology increases and performance requirements continually tighten, the cost and required precision of assemblies increase as well. There exists a strong need for increased attention to tolerance design to enable high-precision assemblies to be manufactured at lower cost. For automotive and aircraft industries, the tolerancing process has become an important issue in product and process d...

Todays efforts to optimize industrial production processes exceedingly focus on tools’ life cycle costs. Toolmaker and its customer are the two entities influencing tools’ life cycle costs. Due to lack of information exchange neither life cycle assessment nor cost efficient life cycles can be realized. An effective lever for penetrating information exchange and therefore gaining cost efficiency...

A life cycle approach was adopted for energy, green house gas (GHG) emissions and renewability assessment for production of 1ton of Jatropha biodiesel. Allocation and displacement approaches were applied for life cycle inventory, process energy and process GHG emission attribution to co-products. The results of process energy and GHG emission analyses revealed that the amount of process energy ...