Abstract
Engineering-To-Order (ETO) companies making
complex and highly engineered products, face the challenge of
delivering highly customized and engineered products with high
quality and short delivery time. In order to respond to those
challenges ETO companies strive to increase commonality between
different projects and to reuse product related information. For that
purpose companies need to be able to retrieve previously designed
products and identify which parts of the design can be reused and
which parts to redesign. This allows companies to reduce
complexity in the product range, to decrease the engineering hours
and to improve the accuracy of the product specifications. In this
article we suggest a framework where product features from the
company’s configuration system are listed up in order to compare
with previously made products by retrieving information from
internal ERP/PLM systems. The list of features consists of defining
features with potential sets of values e.g. capacity, dimensions,
quality of material, energy consumptions, etc. When identifying a
specific previously designed product, it allows access to all of the
specifications of the existing product along with the engineering
hours used, materials used, and hours used in the workshop. The
aim of this paper is to make a framework for setting up a database
before starting the comparison.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 17th International Configuration Workshop |
Editors | Juha Tiihonen, Andreas Falkner, Tomas Axling |
Number of pages | 7 |
Publisher | University of Helsinki |
Publication date | 2015 |
Pages | 139-145 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Event | 17th International Configuration Workshop - Vienna, Austria Duration: 10 Sept 2015 → 11 Sept 2015 Conference number: 17 |
Conference
Conference | 17th International Configuration Workshop |
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Number | 17 |
Country/Territory | Austria |
City | Vienna |
Period | 10/09/2015 → 11/09/2015 |
Series | CEUR Workshop Proceedings |
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ISSN | 1613-0073 |