Mourad Messaadia

A Framework for Improving the Sharing of Manufacturing Knowledge through Micro-Blogging

The purpose of this paper is to report on an industrial investigation, conducted within a leading power generation manufacturer, to better understand the organisational processes and challenges present in relation to the management and sharing of knowledge during product manufacturing. Findings reveal that the organisation is failing to fully benefit from web 2.0 technologies and particularly micro-blogging. Details of the investigation results are presented and a conceptual framework is proposed to demonstrate how organisations may enhance the sharing of explicit manufacturing knowledge using micro-blogging tools.

Collaboration management framework for OEM – suppliers relationships: a trust-based conceptual approach

ABSTRACT Due to the increased competitiveness and the diversity of requirements in today’s markets, manufacturing companies need to join their competencies and resources to propose innovative solutions for each specific market, with the possibility to transpose these solutions to another market, by means of slight adaptations. Thus, manufacturing firms must constantly conduct new collaborations with known partners in most cases, but also with new partners. The critical question for managers in this latter case is how to define the best collaborative strategy according to the goals of the project and the specificity of the target market. This paper tackles the problem by proposing a conceptual framework for supporting the management of collaborative situations in the case of Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Based on the concept of trust level, the framework proposes a classification of different collaboration modes to be adopted in various contexts of inter-enterprise relationships, in manufacturing sector. The aim is to support the flexible navigation between different collaborative situations by taking into account all decision-making levels from the strategy to the implementation of the information technologies (IT) systems at the operational level.

System Engineering and PLM As an Integrated Approach for Industry Collaboration Management

Abstract The aircraft sector is currently changing, such as automotive sector twenty years ago. This tends to modify changes the OEM and suppliers relationship. One of the main OEM developments perspectives is the supplier vertical integration, early in the product life cycle. This suppliers vertical integration should allow added value by increasing products and process innovations proposition. For the supplier this integration means developing new skills, new organization and new tools. Collaboration is done in several ways. These modes are not easy to implement for SMEs and evolve over time. For this, we must implement a PLM tool that will facilitate these modes of cooperation and especially to allow the transition between these modes. The PLM tool is specified according to a system engineering (SE) deployment.

On systems engineering deployment and requirements evolution

The paper is on systems engineering deployment and requirements evolution issues. The approach presented relies on the necessity for systems engineering deployment as a way to customize such concepts for specific applications; a case study is given concerning product lifecycle management (PLM); in the other hand the requirements evolution aspect is addressed in a systems engineering framework and the study analysis of the its impacts on safety issues.

Investigation into current industrial practices relating to product lifecycle management in a multi-national manufacturing company

ABSTRACTProduct Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems have gained growing acceptance for managing all information relating to products throughout their full lifecycle, from idea conceptualisation through operations to servicing and disposal. This paper, through an in-depth exploratory study into a leading power generation manufacturing organization, presents current PLM issues experienced by manufacturing companies, exploring three separate topics: 1) PLM, 2) Knowledge Management and Lessons Learnt and 3) Product Servicing and Maintenance. Following a review of published literature, results of the investigation are presented, analysing the responses of 17 employees interviewed. With respect to Product Development, it was found that information traceability is time consuming and change management requests take too long to complete. Results relating to knowledge management indicate that the Company operates a ‘who you know’ culture, but do aim to capture lessons learned on the manufacturing shop floor and asse...

A Recursive K-means towards trade-off between PLM Competences, Positions, and Offers

Abstract Last decade recognizes a high job demand, more specialized trainings with very oriented jobs offers. This situation makes hiring and recruitments officers in the difficulty to select and find easily the appropriate candidate as well for candidates to choose the best practices and trainings to find later a respectable position. This work aims to help all actors in the job sector by modeling the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) competencies and analyzing the demands especially in industry 4.0. First, the enterprises needs, in terms of skills, are identified through various job offers distributed on online media. Job offers are structured according to profile, geolocation and required competencies, etc. Then, the analysis is based on information retrieval and text mining through a statistical measure used to evaluate how important a competence to a job offer in a given collection. This contribution applies the Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) to determine what skills in a corpus of job offers is the most requested in PLM jobs. This contribution ad-dresses more than 1300 job offers, written in French, and posted in France. The offers cover more than 388 K words, from which 20 types of PLM job titles and 106 terms are related to the job competencies. The obtained results allow us to identify the most requested jobs, skills and classifying jobs and competencies for a better guidance of PLM job actors.

PLM Adoption Model for SMEs

PLM adoption can be a source of competitiveness and sustainability for SMEs. In the other hand, the introduction of new ICT (Information and communication technologies) technologies, such PLM, is a complex process that involves challenging the existing organization, not only in terms of information flow but also the human resources management and OEM/Suppliers relationship level. As seen in literature review, there are a number of factors that facilitate the adoption of ICT technology, but we also identified a number of obstacles that will need to act as the adoption takes place. The paper focused on issues regarding the ICT adoption, especially PLM solutions by SMEs. Based on investigation, this paper proposes a mathematical model of PLM adoption.

Towards Supplier Maturity Evaluation in Terms of PLM Collaboration

The product lifecycle management (PLM) system has a significant role to support the collaboration and manage the partnership between OEM and supplier to enable the success of supplier integration. Today great rates of cooperation as suppliers have been dedicated to SMEs.

ICT for Design and Manufacturing: A Strategic Vision for Technology Maturity Assessment

Based on the EU-FP7, ActionPlanT project aims at assessing and ranking Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that will have the most impact on European competitiveness. One of the outcomes is a classification of ICT for design and manufacturing. ICT, used inside companies, can be classified in different levels according to company’s organization. The paper describes layered software architecture for design management and manufacturing execution of company which intensively uses ICT. The ICT classification can link two perspectives which are developed industrial strategy and used design and manufacturing technology. Results of this work were used in the FP7 project for integrating strategy with design and manufacturing levels.