Design and implementation of an MDA interface for flexible data capturing

Aufenanger, Mark; Blecken, Alexander; Laroque, Christoph

doi:10.1057/jos.2010.13

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“…Firstly, the rationale for a middleware solution is the extensive diversity of production data sources. Research on including MDA tools 22 in data collection or on other possibilities to achieve homogeneity in data structure is important for reaching the future state outlined in Section 2.2. Secondly, additional case studies are needed to further validate the feasibility of automated data management and the proposed solution in particular.…”

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“…MDA incorporates both the collection and some initial processing of raw data from production resources. 22 This gives a good consistency in data formats, which is very convenient but requires that the concept, and its related technical solutions, is applied already in the collection of raw data. Another interesting approach is the ontology-driven framework for data transformation, so far mainly applied in ecological and biodiversity research.…”

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Automated input data management: evaluation of a concept for reduced time consumption in discrete event simulation

2012

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Input data management is a crucial and time-consuming part of a simulation project. Consequently, improvement of this process has substantial potential to increase the rapidity of simulation projects, thus enabling more detailed analyses in design and development of production systems. This paper presents the development of a concept and an associated software demonstrator called the Generic Data Management Tool (GDM-Tool), which automates several critical and time-consuming data input activities. More specifically, raw data are extracted from multiple sources, with different data structures, and transformed to simulation input through data cleaning, calculations and distribution fitting, all done in one automated process. Finally, the simulation input is presented in the Core Manufacturing Simulation Data format, for further use in simulation applications. As a first step towards validation, the GDM-Tool was evaluated during a case study in the automotive industry. The results show that the time needed for input data management was reduced by 78%, as relative to a traditional manual approach.

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