Product System

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Product System

• Technology System Production System
• Technology in Product, Service, Production, or
  Operations

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Introduction

• Invention of technology system is the first part
  of innovation, and the second part of innovation,
  commercialization, occurs by designing the new
  technology into new products (or services or
  operation).
• The idea of a technology system is fundamental to
  innovation theory so is the idea of a product
  system.
• But there is an important difference between
  them A technology system is knowledge
  and a product system is a utility.

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Introduction

• The knowledge of a technology is embodied in the
  design of a useful product.
• A product system including product architecture
  and complexity, and the differing roles of
  technology in product, services, production, and
  operation systems.
• Case Study Invention of Electronic Computer

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Case StudyInvention of the Computer

• The computer was one of those great inventions
  that change human civilization.
• ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator and
  Computer, the worlds first electronic
  computer.
• was designed and built to calculate artillery
  firing tables for the U.S. Army's Ballistic
  Research Laboratory.
• The contract was signed on June 5, 1943 to the
  University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of
  Electrical Engineering and unveiled on February
  14, 1946.
• ENIAC was conceived and designed by John Mauchly
  and Presper Eckert of the University of
  Pennsylvania.

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Case StudyInvention of the Computer
Fig 5.1 Eckert is in the foreground and Mauchly
is in the center. (ENIAC,1946)
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Case StudyInvention of the Computer

• Altogether the circuit cabinets weighted 30 tons,
  and drew 174 kilowatts of power.
• The major problem was tube failure. Total 17,468
  tubes are used in ENIAC they are likely to have
  one failure in every 8 minutes on average.
• Besides, ENIAC was not easily programmable need
  physically connect the circuits.
• 1951, the worlds first commercially successful
  stored-program electronic computer, UNIVAC, the
  Universal Automatic Computer, delivered to United
  States Census Bureau designed by Dr. Presper
  Eckert and Dr. John Mauchly.

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Glen Beck (background) and Betty Snyder
(foreground) program the ENIAC. (U.S. Army photo)
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Programmers Betty Jean Jennings (left) and Fran
Bilas (right) operate the ENIAC's main control
panel at the Moore School of Electrical
Engineering.
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Technology System and Product System

• The difference between a technology system and a
  product system are

In the details and fully connected steps of the
core technology in the product system.
In completing the product system with the
necessary secondary technologies.
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Technology System and Product System

• The Automobile System

Starting Ignition Subsystem
Fuel Subsystem
Body Subsystem
Engine / Transmission / Drive Train Subsystem
Steering Subsystem
Breaking Subsystem
Wheel / Suspension Subsystem
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Technology System and Product System

• A product system is a completed and connected
  transformation technology system used by a
  customer.
• Technical progress in product can occur from
  technological inventions to improve the product
  design or to improve its production process.

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Technology in Product, Service, Production, or
Operations
Production System
is a completed and connected set of
transformational technology systems used in
producing a product.
Service System
is a completed and connected set of
transformational technology systems used in
communication and transacting operations within
and between producer / customer / supplier
networks.
Operations System
is a completed and connected set of
transformational technology systems used in
communication within and operating a business
enterprise.