PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology最新文献

{"title":"Heuristics in decision making","authors":"F. Albar, A. Jetter","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262123","url":null,"abstract":"Heuristics are simple rules of thumbs for problem solving that follow a logic that is quite different from consequential logic. They have long been regarded, as an inferior technique for decision making that is the source of irrational decision behavior. Recently, decision making researchers have demonstrated that some heuristics are highly efficient and can compete with complex decision models in some application domains. This paper explores the different streams of research, summarizes the state of the art decision making model, and discusses its implications for complex decisions in engineering and technology management.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125681039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards a metric management approach for multi-emerging technology based fabrication facilities","authors":"R. Tierney, S. Walsh","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262198","url":null,"abstract":"Multi Technology, High Product Mix, Low Volume fabrication facilities (MT-HMLV) are the harbingers of next generation economies. Yet MT-HMLV's are fraught with ineffective operation and strategic management practice. Practices they often borrow from the metric management approach endemic of single technology high volume production facilities. If this is true in a time of recession and increased globalization then these facilities are at risk. We focus on one very important group of these facilities; those which are working at the interface of micro technology, nanotechnology and semiconductor micro fabrication. This group is not atypical. Due to the high degree of success that the metrics management approach has enjoyed in High Volume Semiconductor Fabrication facilities (HVSF) they are the “Defacto” standard for any fabrication facility remotely akin to semiconductor fabrication and this group is. However, simply applying HVSF based metrics to our group of MT-HMLV facilities are proving ineffectual. We employ an extensive literature review and the case study methods to ascertain why these commonly used metrics have been so ineffectual. Further, we utilize these same techniques to develop a more useful metrics management approach for our specific group of MT-HMLV's facilities. We base our metrics on the unique nature of MT-HMLV facilities as well as traditionally used HVSF metrics and R&D metrics.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126951094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A sustainable management of treatment plant for dairy wastes with the use of its by-products","authors":"S. Nikolaeva, E. Sánchez, M. Moya, M. Durán, Bernal Mederos","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261973","url":null,"abstract":"One of the main problems related to environmental protection in Costa Rica is the adequate management and treatment of piggery and dairy wastes. Pig and dairy farms with hundreds to several thousand of animals are in operation without adequate system for treatment and disposal. Manure, urine and rests of food are washed out from the cages with volumes of water not adequately controlled causing a great variation in the volume and concentration of the effluents. This situation has caused the failure of conventional wastewater treatment plants. The successful application of anaerobic technology ‘AFBRs’ to treat the wastewater of dairy milk with the utilization of biogas in order to produce electricity for the dairy equipment in the milk farm located in the province of Cartago, Costa Rica is presented. As result offers to the industrialists an ecologically viable system and with the use of all its by-products, which allows to describe it like a clean production.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125869138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring potential R&D collaborators based on patent portfolio analysis: The case of biosensors","authors":"Ming-Yeu Wang, Tzu-Fu Chiu, Wei-Ying Chen","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262161","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to develop a framework which modifies the patent portfolios analysis to identify potential R&D collaborators for enterprises. The proposed framework uses association analysis of patent documents to identify important technologies related to the technologies or products in question. This study also designs three indicators, namely technology field scale, relative technology advantage, and relative technological integration capability, to draw patent portfolio diagrams. The diagram can show the important complementary technologies for enterprises, providing valuable suggestions for potential R&D collaborators. To illustrate this framework, this study uses the framework to identify potential R&D collaborators for biosensor-related enterprises based on patents. Experimental results show that the patent portfolio diagrams can properly position biosensor-related enterprises and clearly show important complementary technologies for enterprises. Enterprises with important complementary technologies are good candidates for R&D collaboration.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127351453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Method to embed information collection/utilization mechanism for recurrence prevention into product design process","authors":"M. Inoue, A. Aoyama","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261936","url":null,"abstract":"As the competition among companies is intensified, the product design section is required to improve product features with shorter lead time and less cost. One of the most effective ways to reduce lead time and cost is to achieve perfect transition from design to manufacturing. An effective way to reduce trouble in transition from design to manufacturing is to prevent the recurrence of once experienced troubles. It is said that the 95 percents of troubles are experienced more than once. Traditionally, the functions of recurrence prevention have been organized and carried out by knowledge leaders. However, it is instable and inefficient because the quality of recurrent prevention is highly dependent on the quality of knowledge leader. This research proposes to embed information collection/utilization mechanism for recurrence prevention into product design process.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123144515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"WiMAX: Forecasting by integrating scenario planning and Bass model methodologies","authors":"Youngkoo Yoon, S. Patino, Nathaniel Jarpa, Hamad A. Alanazi","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261828","url":null,"abstract":"The primary objective of this paper is to develop a forecast for mobile WiMAX as an emerging technology using Scenario Planning and Bass Model methodologies. To understand why these methods were applied in assessing a forecast for the adoption of WiMAX, the paper will discuss the technologiy's evolution, functionality, and market competition. Literature review on the methodology and applications of forecasting in the mobile communications industry will be considered to help provide examples of technology forecasting estimations. The results obtained for each scenario will then be compared and analyzed to the behavior of WiMAXs subscribers in both the United States and Korea. The paper intends to discuss the differences in the United States and Korea models. Significant consumer interest variations, price, and population patterns are presented. The key to forecasting WiMAXs adoption technology rates is to understand the difference in consumer reactions that exists within countries. The analysis will conclude that WiMAX will diffuse in Korea at a faster rate due to high response from imitators. With big market potential and a clear vision of subscriber needs, the next major evolution is expected to occur in the area of personal broadband services. The WIMAX standard promises to deliver high speed, cost-effective and high quality services with long distance broad coverage.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122373358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dynamic and quantitative exploration on technology evolution mechanism: The case of electrical conducting polymer nanocomposite","authors":"H. Su, Pei-Chun Lee","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261834","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to obtain global overview on electrical conducting polymer nanocomposite development along time horizon as well as to obtain dynamic and quantitative exploration on technology evolution mechanism, a total of 1421 electrical conducting polymer related nanocomposite patents are retrieved from USPTO patent database and patent citation network is generated by combing both patent citation and social network analysis. A patent citation network can therefore be visually obtained and network properties, e.g. degree centrality, betweenness centrality, closeness centrality, representing several technology evolution mechanisms are calculated. Each patent can be positioned at a specific location of the patent citation network and technology evolution mechanisms for each patent can be quantitatively analyzed.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123942461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Project strategy: Success themes for strategic projects","authors":"Zhiye Huang, M. Poli, Hasan Shabbir Mithiborwala","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261992","url":null,"abstract":"The success rate of projects is low. Adopting a measurement regime and consistently applying it has a strong positive impact on project success. However, there is no accepted methodology for measuring project success. Key issues that impact project success are: — Untested claims exist about success dimensions, measures and critical variables. — Existing models ignore interdependency among success dimensions and management variables. — Existing techniques fail to measure the effects of management variables and success measures on overall project success. Project success assessment is integral to top management's decision-making process. Measures should be set prior to project initiation. A new approach is taken in developing a decision-making model to assess and forecast project success qualitatively and quantitatively. This paper deals with the multidimensional nature of project success measurement. Success dimensions and success factors are explored to determine their impact on measuring project success. Using these results, a project success scheme is created using ANP. This success scheme is used to design a decision-making model. The proposed framework provides project stakeholders with a forecasting and diagnostic tool to evaluate progressively and objectively the project's chances of success to assist in improving overall project performance.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124010207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forward patent citations as predictive measures for diffusion of emerging technologies","authors":"M. Fallah, E. Fishman, R. Reilly","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262201","url":null,"abstract":"An extensive literature traces diffusion of knowledge and inventions using backward patent citations — i.e. patents cited by a new patent. Backward citations show how knowledge imbedded in past inventions influences new inventions. What can we learn from forward citations? Can forward citations be used to forecast the evolution of emerging technologies? In this study we analyze forward citations for three classes of technology — biotechnology, telecommunications and alternative energy. We use patent metrics to measure the rate of technological innovation. Following the existing literature, we examine the incremental advances in the three selected technological fields as indicated by forward patent citations. Our initial proposition is that forward citations should follow a classic S-curve distribution. The paper examines this proposition. Our study entails: selecting groups of patents issued at least 20 years, and some as far as 30 years ago; extracting the number of forward citations issued each year for each patent through 2008; and fitting the cumulative forward citations to a variety of models such S-, linear, quadratic and logistic curves. The analysis and findings are discussed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124097147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Windmills & CSFs for ERP-diffusion of technovation in academia-industry: A qualitative analysis","authors":"M. Rashid, Z. Nas, M. Shami, Uzma Muhmood, Naila Gul, Ceylan Oklu","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261794","url":null,"abstract":"The enterprise resource planning (ERP) is one of the strategic-consideration in any multifaceted manufacturing industry. In past one decade, globally the requirement of ERP for academia and industry has experienced exceptional augmentation. Globally aviation industry has adopted ERP-Software packages in pursuit of competitive advantage over rival industries. The innovation in material and manufacturing management systems has altered the dynamics of shop-floor-scene. The induction of advanced manufacturing technologies, Nano-technology, Composite-materials and psychometric testing of highly skilled labor in a target focused team environment has enormously enhanced the prospect from 5Ms [these 5M-resources are namely Man, Machine, Material, Money and Minute (time)]. The resource-management and supply-chain-management is becoming extremely complex and require dedicated ERP modules for better management and effective control over the industrial and financial activities through integrated business intelligence (BI) software. While most of the companies have shifted from conventional manufacturing operations to MRP supported operations, yet the rate of success for adaptation of ERP is far less than expectations. Hence, it has become more critical to observe the methodology for diffusion of ERP technology in a complex manufacturing industry. Conversely, in the absence of sufficient knowledge-areas the critical variables responsible for diffusion of ERP has emerged as inevitability for implementation of ERP in an industry. In contemporary competitive global-village the ERP-implementation is a cumbersome process and takes years before it yields and reveals its effectiveness. A number of working principles and guidelines have already been developed in other industries and can be employed in a variety of ways in aerospace manufacturing industry for optimum performance and to earn competitiveness through ERP suites. This paper provides critical success factors (CSFs) for diffusion of ERP knowledge areas i.e, technovation (technological-innovation) equally applicable to a multifaceted-industry or a “university-aerospace-department” involved in R&D programs in a joint venture with Industry.","PeriodicalId":185147,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124554908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}