Modelling the engineering design system to improve performance

Girard, Philippe; Doumeingts, Guy

doi:10.1016/j.cie.2003.09.008

Cited by 39 publications

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“…The scientific basis based on the GRAI R & D approach [Girard and Doumeingts, 2004] is formalized by the GRAI Engineering methodology [Merlo and Girard, 2003] to deploy the principles of design steered by the integration of product -process -organization. The ATLAS project (Aides et assisTances pour la conception, la conduite et leur coupLage par les connAissanceS -Help and support for design, coordination and their coupling by knowledge) includes six French academic institutions and two French companies which propose an instrumentation design activity based on the coupling of product design and project design.…”

Section: Atlas Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Competence Management into a Coupled Project-System Design Management

Wehbe

Merlo

Pilnière

2013

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract.Competence management has recently become an important issue in companies. Closely related to knowledge management, it considers the capacities of an individual to perform by using his/her knowledge. This knowledge management becomes a tool for companies to manage human resources in the long run. The ability to characterize useful competences, to evaluate how they are improved through past experience and successive jobs occupied, and thus to select project team members according to fully or partly existing skills are some of the concerns that business managers have to tackle. This paper focuses on the coordination of design activities in order to propose a tool dedicated to project managers on an operational level to manage skills for better team building. The aim is to improve team performance in the short and long term while preserving a link with the human resources department. Our work is based on the results of the ATLAS project which studies the coupling between systems design and management. We propose an initial tool to manage skills in a design project.

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Section: Atlas Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Competence Management into a Coupled Project-System Design Management

Wehbe

Merlo

Pilnière

2013

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…The control of the design process can then be defined as the understanding of existing design situations (in the real world) in order to evaluate them and make decisions that will modify and improve the future process. The control problem here is a problem of decision-making to support designers in their activities [8,9] in order for them to achieve an objective in a specific context ( Fig. 1).…”

Section: Design Co-ordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Actors’ networks management for design co-ordination

Serna¹,

Merlo²,

Zolghadri³

et al. 2011

Int J Interact Des Manuf

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In a worldwide context of collaborative development of new products and/or services, companies have to control the design process to increase design performance. Formal and informal networks of actors are activated during the very first phases of product development projects in order to define the company's partners in a more efficient way. Our goal is to study relationships between co-design projects and networks of partners in order to help project managers in setting up design teams. This leads to the identification of several drivers which influence the actors' network use and leading. Drivers such as project organisational structure, concurrent engineering techniques, groupware-like and knowledge-based systems support and enhance such networks. We will base our experimental issues on an industrial case study from energy production sector. This industrial case explores the structure and the management of actors' networks.

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“…These concepts are based on the GRAI-R&D model [30] integrated in the concept of design environment [6], in order to offer a global framework to manage the creation, the implementation, the follow-up and the evolution of these dedicated environments.…”

Section: Relations With Collaborative Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%