Project Title: Distributed documentation services for variants of complex product families
Project Description: Commercial processes around variants of complex product families are becoming increasingly distributed: in a business context- they involve different enterprises on both the customer and the supplier side (the virtual enterprise) - ; in space - services must be available globally (e.g., for mobile products such as aeroplanes and ships, and for complex products offered on global markets) and are offered by virtual enterprises -; and in time - the processes are concerned with the full life time of the variant products and related services, these life times may span several decades-. Simultaneously, product and process information is gaining importance and the supporting technology (hardware, software, interfaces, communications and concepts) is developing at an accelerating pace, with growing diversity in the infrastructure (components from multiple suppliers, geo-economic differentiation, evolution of the technology over time, etc.). This doctoral research project will focus on questions of the architecture of the documentation infrastructure, with the goal to arrive at a theory that can underpin documentation services for variants of complex product families. The research will start from achievements in areas of product family modelling (Generic Bill of Materials) and enterprise modelling. In the case of standard products within one company the manufacturing routing can be integrated in well-known ways with the Bill of Material. When moving towards product families and networked organizations, it must be investigated how this integration canbe further developed. It is expected that the concepts of generic bill of material can be scaled up for integrating the network enterprise processes around variants of complex product families. In this project modelling methods and architecture are developed and tested in a number of cycles with increased complexity (single company, multi-site, extended enterprise, virtual company).
Project team: The project team, comprising experts in both industrial engineering and computer science with one postdoc and one other doctoral student working in related areas, will support the doctoral student in making an important contribution to a theory in which enterprise modelling and product modelling are further integrated.
Members: Prof. dr. dipl-ing. D.K. Hammer Prof. dr. ir. J.C. Wortmann Dr. A.T.M. Aerts Dr. J.B.M. Goossenaerts Dr. H.M.H. Hegge
Job requirements: You must have a MSc degree, preferably in industrial engineering or computer science with a specialisation in the application of information and communication technology in operations management. You are capable of working with new software technologies and abstract theories and concepts. You have a keen interest to apply these in practical situations. In addition,you are an independent worker who is able to maintain contacts with various internal and external working relations.
For more information please contact: Prof.dr.dipl-ing. D.K.Hammer (hammer@win.tue.nl) or Dr. J.B.M. Goossenaerts (j.b.m.goossenaerts@tm.tue.nl)
How to apply: Please send a written application together with a recent résumé to the Personnel Dept. of the Faculty of Technology Management, attention of Mr J.M. Sieben, P.O.Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands.
Please include the job vacancy code (V39238).
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