Nikolaos Bilalis, E. Maravelakis, A. Antoniadis, V. Moustakis
{"title":"Mapping product innovation profile to product development activities - the I-DSM tool","authors":"Nikolaos Bilalis, E. Maravelakis, A. Antoniadis, V. Moustakis","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2004.1408845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2004.1408845","url":null,"abstract":"The quality of the decisions during the design phase of a product development process is strongly connected with the assessment of the product, process and organizational innovation dimensions. The developed methodology addresses the three dimensions, using 3D innovation attributes, in order to obtain a product innovation profile through an innovation survey. An innovation design structure matrix tool (I-DSM tool) is used for mapping and analyzing the dependencies between the innovation attributes. Furthermore an innovation improvement impact value for each attribute is introduced and an optimal improvement strategy is defined. Next the product innovation profile is mapped with the product development activities, in order to evaluate the effect of the proposed strategy to the activities cost and durations.","PeriodicalId":412957,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125660146","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":"The evolution of three generations innovation management-from event view, process view to capability view","authors":"Q.R. Xu, X.R. Liang, L. Zhu","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407446","url":null,"abstract":"The microinnovation management can be summarized into three perspectives, 1, the sources of innovation and the principal of innovation, 2, the process of innovation, 3, innovation value-added. Addressing on different answers of the three questions above, the concept of three stages evolution emerged by deeper research and practices in innovation management. The three stages are been through \"event view\", \"process view\", to \"capability view\". This paper conducted theoretical study and real world practices regarding the three views, and concluded outcome that \"capability view\" is inevitable trend of innovation management.","PeriodicalId":412957,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121935616","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 knowledge typology for new product development engineering processes","authors":"B. Donnellan, B. Fitzgerald","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407454","url":null,"abstract":"In today's competitive and turbulent environment companies engaged in new product development (NPD) need to have a sophisticated understanding of the types of knowledge critical to the each phase of the NPD process. This types of knowledge is used in so-called \"stage-gate\" NPD processes. This work will describe a typical NPD stage-gate process and indicate the critical knowledge types needed at the different stages. The identification of the critical knowledge used at each stage was done by combining knowledge of the literature and practical experience of running NPD processes in an industrial setting. The different types of knowledge required at different stages of the development process will be described and elaborated on. When providing knowledge management systems to support the NPD process, one needs to consider providing a system that can cater for knowledge that may take Different forms. This research contributes to our understanding of the nature of those knowledge forms.","PeriodicalId":412957,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122281999","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":"An approach to design reverse logistics networks for product recovery","authors":"R. Kusumastuti, R. Piplani, G. H. Lim","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2004.1408892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2004.1408892","url":null,"abstract":"Shortened product lifecycle has resulted in increasing number of obsolete products, leading to growing environmental concerns. Product recovery, which is a way of reducing waste, is gaining popularity in recent years. To effectively implement product recovery activities, a reverse logistics network design that can facilitate reverse flow of used products in an efficient way is required. In this paper, an approach to design reverse logistics network for product recovery, incorporating multi-objective functions, multi-period planning horizons, and uncertainties is presented. This approach consists of both mathematical and simulation models; the former utilizes mixed integer programming (MIP) to model the multi-objective, multi-period problem of network design, whereas the latter is employed to incorporate uncertainties. Due to its complexities, spanning-tree based genetic algorithms are utilized to find non-dominated solutions. The preferred non-dominated solutions are simulated under several scenarios of uncertainties to determine the best-preferred reverse logistics network design.","PeriodicalId":412957,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127971671","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":"Research on influence of traditional and modern agricultural methods and technology on a level of pollution of the rivers both agricultural areas","authors":"K. Kachiashvili, D.V. Nakani","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2004.1408907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2004.1408907","url":null,"abstract":"By support of World Bank the Georgian government has prepared \"The Project of agricultural research, introduction - consultation and training\", which is financed by the help both of the international development association (IDA) and global environment fund (GEF). Within the framework of the given project in the basin of the river Khobistskali, which runs into the black sea within the limits of Georgia, on farms introduce the biological methods of struggle against the agricultural pests, carry out the measures of reduction of erosion fields and increase of agricultural cultures productivity, build bio-installations for processing of stock-raising wastes and manufacture of high-quality organic fertilizers. The purpose of realization of these measures is the increase of socially-economic condition of the population and improvement of ecological condition as the environment, as growing agricultural products by the farmers. For estimation of the achievement of socially-economic and ecological effects by introduced the new technologies here realize monitoring of pollution: river waters, waters which are washed off from farmer's fields and stock-raising farms, soils of agricultural fields on the different depths and underground waters. By the help of the computer processing of monitoring results by the modern methods of the data analysis investigated the pollution process of the rivers from farms. Are restored dependences between of soil pollution levels, superficial and underground waters, contents in ground of nitrates and phosphates and volumes of received harvests.","PeriodicalId":412957,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115983849","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":"Balancing centripetal and centrifugal forces in a lifecycle model of innovation: a meta-analysis","authors":"M. Werwath","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2004.1408826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2004.1408826","url":null,"abstract":"Organizations struggle to become consistently innovative throughout their lifecycle. This struggle becomes especially important to organizations when the capacity to innovate becomes depleted due to adverse economic and business conditions. This study analyzes the antecedents to organizational innovation using a quantitative meta-analysis of the extant literature within the context of an established theoretical frame for the field. This study expands the theoretical frame of Willow Sheremata [Sharma, S, 1996], which distinguishes between centrifugal and centripetal forces, by analyzing and categorizing ninety-four studies (outcomes) and analyzing their impact on innovation. This paper directly addresses the balance of centrifugal (new idea generating) and centripetal (integrating) forces optimally needed as a function of the organization's lifecycle. It is posited that organizations need more centrifugal forces during the infant (initiation) stages of the lifecycle in order to generate the ideas and energy needed to establish strategic direction. Once established, more centripetal forces are needed to integrate the organization's energy and channel it toward implementation of the new strategy. It is further posited that centrifugal forces are particularly needed during the initiation stages of a radical innovation while centripetal forces are needed during all stages of the incremental innovation. A meta-analysis comparing subsets of the data concluded that centripetal forces have a positive moderating effect on both radical and incremental types of innovations studied, and during the implementation and initiation phases of innovation. It was also shown that centrifugal forces have a positive moderating effect only on radical innovations during both initiation and implementation stages while positively moderating incremental innovations during only the initiation stage of innovation.","PeriodicalId":412957,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)","volume":"104 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132132305","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":"Environmental technology transfer in the galvanic industry: beyond implementation of the IPPC directive","authors":"E. Cagno, L. Tardini, P. Trucco","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407150","url":null,"abstract":"In an industrial context, a company's ability to manage the environmental issue strategically is an important competitive advantage. Pollution prevention is one of the principal factors in the innovation of production processes, above all in the galvanic industry. This is also due to the recent evolution of the European regulation framework, for which new technological standards are fixed by the end of 2005 (best available techniques, BAT). The paper provides a technical and economic assessment of the Italian galvanic industry. In the first part, BAT included in the BREF report (\"surface treatment of metals and plastic materials using electrolytic or chemical processes\") are analysed and classified according to the their documented economic performance (pay-back time and internal rate of return) and the complexity of implementation. The analysis confirms that all the proposed BAT are able to generate significant production cost savings with a short PBT. The second part of the paper presents a broad-based survey of the galvanic industry in Italy. The survey reveals a considerable gap between the proposed BAT and the technological solutions currently installed in Italian firms. At present, it is difficult for Italian SMEs to access the critical know-how necessary to make strategic decisions regarding the techniques and technologies that could improve their processes.","PeriodicalId":412957,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132376392","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":"Optimization of machine flexibility in an ion plating cell","authors":"F. Chan, K. Au, P. Chan","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2004.1408908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2004.1408908","url":null,"abstract":"In 1970s, manufacturing system performance was heavily depended on productivity. Manufacturers only concentrated on increasing productivity by increasing the number of workforce. The concept of flexibility began to introduce into the industry since 1990s, manufacturers realized that flexibility was a better solution to improve productivity by responding the changing environment in manufacturing system. However, limited researches on machine flexibility in ion plating (IP) industry were studied, most of them have focused on product development and quality of coating. The aim of this paper is to determine the optimal level of machine flexibility in an ion plating cell (IPC) to improve the entire system performance. A machine loading sequencing (MLS) model based on multi-objectives genetic algorithms (GA) was developed. In the case study, industrial data of a precious metal finishing company has been input into the proposed machine loading sequencing genetic algorithm (MLSGA) model. Different level of machine flexibility will be assigned into different machines to determine the optimum while the overall system performance (i.e. on-time delivery, quality of product and production cost) has been maximized. The results demonstrated that the machine flexibility level in IPC should be zero under the recent IP technology. However, when the quality of coating is improved, machine flexibility should be introduced.","PeriodicalId":412957,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134036178","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":"TRIZ-aided technology mapping for information system implementation","authors":"Jackie W. W. Chan, K. M. Yu","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407112","url":null,"abstract":"The accelerating development of technology transfer and knowledge diffusion activities have a profound impact in technology oriented companies. Technology mapping is a high level-planning tool for supporting the planning and control of technology management, and to support national and sector 'foresight' initiatives. However, existing models on technology transfer have investigated separately on the methods, stakeholders, and the elements of how the transferers and transferees assimilate, adopt, develop, and transfer the technology in various organizational settings. This research investigates for a structured approach via knowledge networks for the analysis of technological merits that leads to a competitive advantage, with due considerations basing on the impact of technology to a value chain. A 3-dimensional model in the context of technology mapping for the transfer of technology using TRIZ (theory of inventive problem solving) is proposed. A case study is discussed to illustrate the systematic application of the model.","PeriodicalId":412957,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134230639","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":"Sustainable path to growth: technological capability and innovation strategy for China's private enterprise","authors":"Xiaobo Wu, S. Zheng","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407152","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we give a brief introduction of private economy's important role in economic development of China and recognize the bottlenecks that hinder their sustainable growth. Analyzed from the dynamic resource-based view, we propose the technological evolution of Chinese private enterprise. We classify six types of strategies based on innovation and point out that innovation is the avenue to upgrade their technological capability in the long run. This paper attempts to present possible guidance to private enterprise by matching the evolution process and innovation strategy.","PeriodicalId":412957,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130704964","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}