Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617969
A. Shaikh
A stage-gate based methodology has been created to develop new semiconductor technologies. Each stage, gates and deliverable of some of the critical features are described for the benefit of the reader. This methodology has been in place and been successfully used for over six years to develop new semiconductor technologies. There have been several positive outcomes by using the methodology. It creates discipline in the organization. The methodology is getting adopted and the organizational familiarity is increasing. With increasing adoption throughout the corporation, other corporate infastructural systems start linking with it. As a result the corporate management can easily gain pertinent information on development progress of the new technology platforms. In implementing the methodology, there are several challenges ranging from corporate stamina to individual acceptance. In some circles following the methodology may be viewed as bureaucratic and slow. Overcoming these challenges instills the methodology with deeper roots, and improves its probability of success.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618014
T. Marion, R. Sipahi, Ilker Delice
Resource constrained early-stage firms commercializing assembled products face supply chain (SC) problems that could ultimately cause the company to fail. Delays, complexity, and associated cost overruns throughout the SC can quickly drain cash flow, putting the new firm in a disadvantaged position. This is exacerbated by the increased use of outsourced global suppliers, demands of resellers, and pressure for rapid growth. A decision-making tableau over a conceptual SC model is revealed, which identifies qualitative behavior of inventories with respect to delays inherently present in the SC. This tableau can aid the entrepreneurial manager in strategic decisions. A case example is given followed by discussion on the results, limitations, and direction of future research.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618002
A. Barbosa‐Póvoa
Operations and Supply Chain Management are necessary cornerstones for any organization that wants to compete in the current global economy. Traditionally, supply chains have been seen as operational structures that produced and distributed products to different market places geographically disperse around the globe. Organizations were mainly concerned with the satisfaction of their costumers at a minimum cost. In parallel supply chain research communities tended to focus on sub-sets of the associated management decisions instead of looking in a cross-functional and co-coordinated way to the different existent levels of decisions within the supply chain. This paradigm is however changing and advances in global competition, with a parallel exhaustion of natural resources and increased society awareness towards environment, created a new way of thinking when managing supply chains and operations. Companies are now realizing new business opportunities associated with a life cycle approach to their products. The need of seriously exploring the concept of global sustainable supply chains within a collaborative perspective is seen as a goal to improve companiespsila revenue growth and costumerpsilas recognition. Optimized structures and practices are being adopted while accounting concurrently with economical and sustainable issues. In support of such decisions operations and supply chain optimization as well as associated sustainable issues have been receiving a rising attention by both academic and industrialists. But a large amount of work is still to be done and a number of related issues is still therefore to be explored. The International Engineering Management Conference, Europe 2008 focus on the area of operations and supply chains with a special emphasis on supply chain optimization and sustainability. Fifteen papers were accepted containing a wide variety of methodologies and applications where some of these issues are explored.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618004
Carla A. S. Geraldes, M. Carvalho, Guilherme A. B. Pereira
Todaypsilas competitive and volatile market requires flexibility, quality and efficiency from the logistics operations. In this context, warehouses are an important link of the logistic chain and warehouse management plays an important role over customerpsilas service. Throughout this work we analyze a mathematical model aiming to support warehouse management decisions. A case study is used for that purpose and the model jointly identifies product allocation to the functional areas in the warehouse, as well as the size of each area. This case study also evaluates the performance of the model when real data is used. Model is solved using LINGO 9.0 mixed-integer commercial solver, and potential savings achieved using the proposed technique are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618024
V. Lazzarotti, R. Manzini, Emanuele Pizzurno
The successful establishment and management of an effective innovation network is often a critical challenge for SMEs, meanwhile basic for performance outcomes. In fact for small organizations, extramural collaborations represent a key element in developing product/process innovation. An empirical study in the calibration industry provides some insights on this topic.
{"title":"Managing innovation networks of SMEs: a case study","authors":"V. Lazzarotti, R. Manzini, Emanuele Pizzurno","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618024","url":null,"abstract":"The successful establishment and management of an effective innovation network is often a critical challenge for SMEs, meanwhile basic for performance outcomes. In fact for small organizations, extramural collaborations represent a key element in developing product/process innovation. An empirical study in the calibration industry provides some insights on this topic.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121514624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617944
G. Szűcs, G. Sallai
This paper deals with multi criteria decision analysis in an engineering area (info-communication networks) by combining two effective mathematical modelling tools: analytic hierarchy process and Bayesian network. An extension of Bayesian network is introduced, this vector Bayesian network is able to calculate the effects of the node faults in info-communication networks on different errors occurred at end users. We have developed a method combining expert knowledge and probabilistic theory to analyse fault spreading problem. A numerical example of network problem is worked out in order to certify our theoretical conception.
{"title":"Combination of analytic network process and Bayesian Network model for Multi-Criteria Engineering Decision problems","authors":"G. Szűcs, G. Sallai","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617944","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with multi criteria decision analysis in an engineering area (info-communication networks) by combining two effective mathematical modelling tools: analytic hierarchy process and Bayesian network. An extension of Bayesian network is introduced, this vector Bayesian network is able to calculate the effects of the node faults in info-communication networks on different errors occurred at end users. We have developed a method combining expert knowledge and probabilistic theory to analyse fault spreading problem. A numerical example of network problem is worked out in order to certify our theoretical conception.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133831278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617990
A. Tapaninen, M. Seppanen
Climate change and the continuous need for alternative energy sources like biofuels has highlighted the potential for the technological alternative of innovative domestic household pellet heating systems for single-family houses. The diffusion and adoption of pellet heating system has been studied earlier but only scant attention has been given to the technological attributes in influencing adoption decisions. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the customerspsila perceived factors in adopting pellet heating bioenergy technology in Finland. These factors are observed in relation to the adoption theories. The results indicate that the customerspsila adoption decisions are, at least partially, governed by technological attributes which can be attributed to existing theoretical models. The managerial implications of the results and avenues for future research are also discussed.
{"title":"Characteristics of innovation: Perceived factors in adopting pellet heating technology","authors":"A. Tapaninen, M. Seppanen","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617990","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change and the continuous need for alternative energy sources like biofuels has highlighted the potential for the technological alternative of innovative domestic household pellet heating systems for single-family houses. The diffusion and adoption of pellet heating system has been studied earlier but only scant attention has been given to the technological attributes in influencing adoption decisions. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the customerspsila perceived factors in adopting pellet heating bioenergy technology in Finland. These factors are observed in relation to the adoption theories. The results indicate that the customerspsila adoption decisions are, at least partially, governed by technological attributes which can be attributed to existing theoretical models. The managerial implications of the results and avenues for future research are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131319468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617974
E. Bothos, Dimitris Apostolou, G. Mentzas
Several methods and software tools exist for evaluating new ideas in corporate environments, which provide significant help to decision makers when selecting the most promising suggestions for innovation. In this paper, we identify five criteria for assessing idea evaluation methods (number and type of ideas, number and motivation of evaluators, type of feedback) and we use them to review prominent methods (multi-criteria analysis, statistical analysis, qualitative research, rapid prototyping, feasibility studies and Information Aggregation Markets). We identify Information Aggregation Markets as a prominent new method and we present a novel system that implements the concept of Information Aggregation Markets as well as early results from its evaluation.
{"title":"Idea selection and Information Aggregation Markets","authors":"E. Bothos, Dimitris Apostolou, G. Mentzas","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617974","url":null,"abstract":"Several methods and software tools exist for evaluating new ideas in corporate environments, which provide significant help to decision makers when selecting the most promising suggestions for innovation. In this paper, we identify five criteria for assessing idea evaluation methods (number and type of ideas, number and motivation of evaluators, type of feedback) and we use them to review prominent methods (multi-criteria analysis, statistical analysis, qualitative research, rapid prototyping, feasibility studies and Information Aggregation Markets). We identify Information Aggregation Markets as a prominent new method and we present a novel system that implements the concept of Information Aggregation Markets as well as early results from its evaluation.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115912257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617970
C. González-Brambila
Mexico is among the set of countries that look at Science, Technology and Innovation a fundamental mechanism to support competitiveness, reach higher levels of economic growth and increase the social welfare of its citizens. This paper provides a description of the main policy initiatives to foster innovation in Mexico. Afterward, some characteristics of innovation practices in private-sector businesses and how these features have evolved over a 5-year period are presented to assess the impact of those policy initiatives. To this purpose, results of the 2001 and 2006 national innovation surveys are used.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617966
A. Tapaninen
Climate change and the continuous need for energy has influenced the developing of bioenergy technologies. Wood pellet heating is a rather new potential for sustaining heating technology of domestic households. However, adopting pellet heating systems has been rather slow in Finland. The diffusion and adoption of the pellet heating system has been studied earlier but only scant attention has been given to the personal attributes in influencing adoption decisions. The main purpose of this article is to empirically study the attributes of residential customer segments. Theoretically the paper is based on the innovation decision theory and sequence of customer segments adopting technological innovations in different phases of the product life cycle. The empirical material consists of inquiries (n=154) canvassed in the Hameenlinna Housing Expo Finland in summer 2007. The results show the significance of the gender and age in adoption of pellet heating. The managerial implications and future research avenues are also discussed.
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