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Durhams Grand Challenge Interests in the Area of
Production Networks
- Prof Paul Maropoulos
- University of Durham
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Overview of Durhams Track Record
- Theoretical framework of Digital Enterprise
Technology - Global product design and realisation in the
context of lifecycle management - Risk mitigation by the synchronised
product/project and enterprise formation
management on a global basis - Aggregate Planning
- Product and Process Modelling for early stages of
Design, facilitates early planning and production
route generation - Resource-Aware Planning and Capability Analysis
- Planning of networks and production in early
stages of enterprise formation
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Towards Intelligent Resource-Aware Distributed
Enterprises
- The specification and realization of intelligent
and - resource aware distributed enterprises requires
- substantial development of the underpinning
design, modelling, - information management and knowledge retrieval,
- representation and classification technologies.
- This is a very large, and still largely
ill-defined technical area - and as such, it is a fertile domain for the
application of - emergent synthesis methodologies, in order to
- consolidate recent advances in life cycle
management - and distributed, co-operative systems that employ
virtual - and augmented reality web-centric technologies.
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Key Research Concepts to be deployed for this
Grand Challenge
- Resource-Aware Planning (RAP)
- Capability Analysis (CA)
- Competence Profiling Methodology (CPM)
- Engineering as Collaborative Negotiation (ECN)
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Resource-Aware Planning
- Resource-aware planning indicates the creation
of a dynamic inter-relationship between the
planning entities and the enterprise resources,
humans and machines. - The technologies required for implementing the
resource-aware planning methods include - a web-centric co-development environment,
- unique methods for enriching planning entities
with knowledge, - a flexible planning engine supporting business
driven planning scenarios by using evolutionary
computing (Genetic Algorithms and Simulated
Annealing) for the intelligent exploration of the
search space - capability analysis techniques for the
human-centric evaluation of planning results and
improvement feedback generation.
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Characteristics of Resource-Aware Planning (RAP)
- RAP is aggregate planning for the early stages of
the formation of the production network - These early phases are most critical as they
largely determine production network performance
and product lifecycle cost levels - Used for the early specification, design and
evaluation of the production network using
business objectives such as - production levels and variety,
- geographical location and
- quality, cost and delivery targets.
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Capability Analysis
- Capability Analysis is a computational method for
defining the relative priorities of multiple and
dissimilar enterprise capability factors using
user-defined criteria. - The main objectives of CA are
- 1.The ability to compare dissimilar indicators of
performance (capability factors) - 2. To identify improvements, as a result of
distributed negotiation, that provide the largest
gains in performance for a given business
scenario, as defined by enterprise experts.
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Emergent Synthesis as a Result of Deploying RAP
and CA
- Evaluating options/results within a distributed
resource-aware planning environment using
capability analysis, invariably leads to human
intervention resulting in - Ambiguity of intentions,
- the interactive evaluation of interim results
and/or - the interactive specification of new options
concerning the environments configuration by
changing the production network design - During the early phases of production network
design there is also - incomplete information regarding the product,
- incomplete information and fluidity regarding the
selection, availability and deployment of
enterprise resources. - These are characteristics of a Class III emergent
synthesis problem.
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Competence Profiling Methodology (CPM) and
Engineering as Collaborative Negotiation (ECN)
- CPM can be used for capturing the key
capabilities of production network partners
including human skills and production processes
capacity. - The CPM has been used within Automotive and
Defence collaborative sectors - Durham has extended the initial method to be used
as part of an Agility Audit - ECN is a new concept seeking to understand and
formalise the vertical and horizontal negotiation
process as an integral part of the workflow for
complex products/projects that are developed
using distributed environments. - ECN has been defined within CIRP and there is an
international working group developing the
concept.
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Concluding Comments
- Durhams Design and Manufacturing Group has an
established track record in enterprise planning
methods and tools. - The novel concepts coming out of this research
can be used in a Production Network related
Grant Challenge.
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