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Goffin, Keith. "Planning Product Support for Medical Products." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1826/4468.

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Product support is a key aspect in the marketing of high-technology products, since it strongly influences customer satisfaction and can also be an important source of revenue. Typical forms of support include operator training, equipment maintenance and, if necessary, repair - all of these are normally provided by manufacturers' support organizations. Good support is particularly important in some markets; an example is medical equipment where good operator training and quick repairs are essential because products are used in critical situations. Despite its importance, support has not been extensively researched. This study describes a management investigation of two aspects. Several authors have identified that product support is dependent on product design. Consequently, the same authors emphasize that support should be thoroughly evaluated during product design. This study identifies the range of factors that may be evaluated and shows that most of the companies surveyed do not fully evaluate support during the design stage. These results are not covered by previously published material and have implications for management. As support influences customer satisfaction, it is important to know how customers perceive support. The study investigated the customer attributes of good support, using interviews with medical equipment customers. The results show that a common set of attributes are associated with support, some relating to the product itself and some to the support organization. The characteristics of products which are easier to support were also identified from the interviews. The contribution of the research is that it made an exploratory investigation of the concept product support. It not only gave the first survey data on how companies plan support but also investigated customers' perceptions of product support. Consequently the study provides a foundation from which there is real scope for further management research, into what is becoming recognized as a vital element of high-technology marketing.
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Číhal, Vít. "Návrh strategického záměru importu bulharského produktu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-433402.

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Tato diplomová práce se zabývá kritickou analýzou možnosti importu a následné marketingové strategie importu Bulharského produktu Kiselo Mlyako danou společností na trh České Republiky. Cílem práce je zjistit, jestli je tento produkt vhodný pro daný trh a jestli je tento strategický tah úspěšný. V práci jsou popsány informace důležité k provedení praktické části práce, která obsahuje analýzu trhu i společnosti, která by daný strategický návrh provedla. Práce dále obsahuje souhrn informací, které byly z jednotlivých analýz zjištěny a doporučení, které by společnost měla podstoupit. V poslední řadě je vytvořený stručný finanční plán.
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Hough, Darren William. "Aesthetics and product usability." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23107.

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Marti, Michael. "Complexity management : optimizing product architecture of industrial products /." Wiesbaden Dt. Univ.-Verl, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-5435-6.

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Ostermeier, Lydia. "(Relaxed) Product Structures of Graphs and Hypergraphs." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-167934.

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In this thesis, we investigate graphs and hypergraphs that have (relaxed) product structures. In the class of graphs, we discuss in detail \\emph{RSP-relations}, a relaxation of relations fulfilling the square property and therefore of the product relation $\\sigma$, that identifies the copies of the prime factors of a graph w.r.t. the Cartesian product. For $K_{2,3}$-free graphs finest RSP-relations can be computed in polynomial-time. In general, however, they are not unique and their number may even grow exponentially. Explicit constructions of such relations in complete and complete bipartite graphs are given. Furthermore, we establish the close connection of (\\emph{well-behaved}) RSP-relations to \\mbox{(quasi-)covers} of graphs and equitable partitions. Thereby, we characterize the existence of non-trivial RSP-relations by means of the existence of spanning subgraphs that yield quasi-covers of the graph under investigation. We show, how equitable partitions on the vertex set of a graph $G$ arise in a natural way from well-behaved RSP-relations on $E(G)$. These partitions in turn give rise to quotient graphs that have rich product structure even if $G$ itself is prime. This product structure of the quotient graph is still retained even for RSP-relations that are not well-behaved. Furthermore, we will see that a (finest) RSP-relation of a product graph can be obtained easily from (finest) RSP-relations on the prime factors w.r.t. certain products and in what manner the quotient graphs of the product w.r.t. such an RSP-relation result from the quotient graphs of the factors and the respective product. In addition, we examine relations on the edge sets of \\emph{hyper}graphs that satisfy the grid property, the hypergraph analog of the square property. We introduce the \\emph{strong} and the \\emph{relaxed} grid property as variations of the grid property, the latter generalizing the relaxed square property. We thereby show, that many, although not all results for graphs and the (relaxed) square property can be transferred to hypergraphs. Similar to the graph case, any equivalence relation $R$ on the edge set of a hypergraph $H$ that satisfies the relaxed grid property induces a partition of the vertex set of $H$ which in turn determines quotient hypergraphs that have non-trivial product structures. Besides, we introduce the notion of \\emph{(Cartesian) hypergraph bundles}, the analog of (Cartesian) graph bundles and point out the connection between the grid property and hypergraph bundles. Finally, we show that every connected thin hypergraph $H$ has a unique prime factorization with respect to the normal and strong (hypergraph) product. Both products coincide with the usual strong \\emph{graph} product whenever $H$ is a graph. We introduce the notion of the Cartesian skeleton of hypergraphs as a natural generalization of the Cartesian skeleton of graphs and prove that it is uniquely defined for thin hypergraphs. Moreover, we show that the Cartesian skeleton of thin hypergraphs and its PFD w.r.t. the strong and the normal product can be computed in polynomial time.
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Blackenfelt, Michael. "Managing complexity by product modularisation." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Machine Design, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3097.

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Tsai, Weiyu. "Essays in new product introduction /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8718.

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Orfi, Nihal Mohamed Sherif. "Harnessing Product Complexity: An Integrative Approach." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77292.

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In today's market, companies are faced with pressure to increase variety in product offerings. While increasing variety can help increase market share and sales growth, the costs of doing so can be significant. Ultimately, variety causes complexity in products and processes to soar, which negatively impacts product development, quality, production scheduling, efficiency and more. Product variety is just one common cause of product complexity, a topic that several researchers have tackled with several sources of product complexity now identified. However, even with such progress, product complexity continues to be a theoretical concept, making it difficult for companies to fully implement advances and fully manage product complexity. More and more companies are relying on product family design to handle product variety. Broadly, a product family can be defined as a group of products sharing common elements. The advantages for companies using product family strategies can be significant: they enable efficient derivation of product variants, reduce inventory and handling costs, as well as setup and retooling time. The design challenge however, is to select the product platform to generate a variety of products with minimum deviation from individual requirements. Accordingly, the structure of product families makes designing and evaluating them a challenging process. In order to fully embrace the relationships between variety, product complexity, and product families an understanding of product complexity causes and impacts is essential. This research begins by introducing four main dimensions of product complexity within the context of a generalized definition. Product complexity indicators suitable in product design, development and production are derived. By establishing measurements for the identified indicators and using clustering techniques, a complexity evaluation approach for product family designs is also developed in this research. The evaluation approach is also applied on a component basis, to identify Critical Components that are main sources and contributors of complexity within product families. By standardizing identified Critical Components, product complexity levels and associated costs can be managed. A case application of three product families from a tire manufacturing company is used to verify that this research approach is suitable for evaluating and managing product complexity in product families.
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TERÁN, VÁZQUEZ MARÍA FERNANDA. "“TPM” TOTAL PRODUCT MANAGEMENT/MANEJO TOTAL DEL PRODUCTO." Tesis de Licenciatura, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/94572.

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La presente memoria de experiencia profesional tiene como objetivo comprobar que proteger la calidad e integridad del producto es lo más importante para la compañía, ya que depende por completo del cliente y este a su vez se debe asegurar la correcta rotación y frescura de los productos terminados para evitar que alcancen o rebasen su estándar de edad en cualquier etapa de la cadena de valor, desde su ingreso al Centro de Distribución (CEDIS) y finalmente a manos de los clientes. El puesto de Total Product Management o Manejo Total del Producto (TPM) surgió de la necesidad de contar con un sistema de mejora continua para la administración de todos los elementos que conforman a la compañía Jugos del Valle S.A. de C.V. (JDV), puesto que fue implementado por el grupo The Coca-Cola company gracias a ello, se contribuye la participación en la elaboración de los productos dentro de los estándares de calidad, inocuidad y seguridad que el cliente requiere, de igual forma cumplir al 100% los procesos que lo conllevan y que de este modo se tenga una operación controlada. Al responsable del puesto de TPM, se le conoce como analista TPM ya que es el encargado de aplicar los procesos para todas las etapas de la cadena de valor, es decir desde que se elabora el producto, pasando por almacén de planta, transporte, centros de distribución, rutas, distribuidores, detallistas y por último llegando a manos del cliente final. Las condiciones de manejo para los productos que la compañía requiere dependen del tiempo de permanencia y la temperatura en toda la cadena de valor, desde su almacenamiento, distribución, comercialización y exhibición de los productos. Se tiene que garantizar al consumidor que los productos que se les están vendiendo son recibidos con el grado de frescura y calidad requerida, cabe mencionar que dentro de las bondades adicionales a mencionar podemos destacar el aumento efectivo para la mejora a la rotación y el incremento de la calidad logrado en los procesos productivos dirigidos al mercado de bebidas.
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Sun, Luying. "Product + Service: The Intangible Smart in Everyday Products." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406819515.

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Corbett, Brian. "Configuration design methods and mathematics for product families." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/17283.

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Strejčková, Jitka. "Analýza integrace product placementu do audiovizuálního díla "Probudím se včera"." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-192768.

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The thesis titled Analysis of the integration of product placement in the audiovisual work "I wake up yesterday," focuses on the use of marketing tools product placement in this particular film. The theoretical part defines the issues and their types of promotion. Characteristics of effective legislation in the Czech Republic and related European Union regulations. Pricing for product placement and the possibility of measuring effectiveness. The practical part deals with concrete examples on the matter after legalization in the Czech Republic. The work deals with the number of occurrences of brands in the audiovisual work. Furthermore, the work focuses on, whether product placement was used in accordance with the law and what proportion of occupied product placement in the total broadcast time. What percent was used for active or passive product placement and the share of the dominant and nondominant expresses shot on the product. Furthermore, it is also concentration on realism brands.
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Jang, Namkyung. "Apparel product development : influencial factors of apparel product success and failure /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3036833.

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Cedergren, Stefan. "Performance in Product Development - The Case of Complex Products." Doctoral thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-11215.

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This research addresses the concept of performance in the development of complex products. More specifically, its aim is to study how performance is perceived and measured within large global companies, and how performance measurement systems can be designed in a systematic way. The exploratory results regard how performance is currently perceived and measured. It is argued that performance measurements are focused on the later stages of the development of complex products, thus making it difficult to perform changes during the development. The focus is on lagging rather than leading indicators of performance, hence it is concluded that focus is on reporting the result rather than the causes of the result. In line with these findings is the weak link between what managers perceive as success factors and what is measured, the perception of performance being influenced by what is measured, rather than the reverse. The prescriptive results focus on the development of models and frameworks to be used during the development of complex products. A general method for developing performance indicators is presented. The concept of Products in Development is proposed, this making it possible to monitor how value is created during the development of a product. Both these models aim at complementing the currently used performance measurement system in order to support effective and efficient development of complex products. The method used in this research is mainly focused around the collection of qualitative data through a focused group interview, multiple case studies,and industrial reference-group seminars. A survey has also been used to complement the qualitative with quantitative data. The use of various research methods has made it possible to triangulate the data, thus strengthening the validity of the findings.
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Khurum, Mahvish. "Decision Support for Product Management of Software Intensive Products." Doctoral thesis, Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00511.

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Context: At the core of choosing what features and level of quality to realize, and thus offer a market or customer, rests on the ability to take decisions. Decision-making is complicated by the diverse understanding of issues such as priority, consequence of realization, and interpretations of strategy as pertaining to the short-term and long-term development of software intensive products. The complexity is further compounded by the amount of decision support material that has to be taken into account, and the sheer volume of possible alternatives that have to be triaged and prioritized; thousands or even tens of thousands of requirements can be the reality facing a company. There is a need to develop the functionality that is strategically most significant, while satisfying customers and being competitive, time efficient, cost effective, and risk minimizing. In order to achieve a balance between these factors, all the stakeholders, within an organization, need to agree on the strategic aspects and value considerations to be considered, and their corresponding relative importance. Objective: The objective of this thesis is to provide enhanced decision support for product managers faced with decision-making challenges. This involves, but is not limited to, enhancing the alignment between the product and portfolio management with respect to product strategies, and enabling the use of value as a basis for product management and development related decisions. Method: A number of empirical studies, set in industry, have been performed. The research methods used span from systematic mapping, and systematic reviews to case studies, all aligned to identify possibilities for improvement, devise solutions, and incrementally evaluate said solutions. Close collaboration with industry partners was at the core of the research presented in this thesis. Result: The MASS method presented in this thesis can be used to evaluate strategic alignment and identify possible root causes for misalignment. To strengthen strategic alignment, the Software Value Map and corresponding decision support material, proposed in the thesis, can be used by product managers for making effective and efficient strategic decisions in relation to portfolios, products and process improvement, following a systematic and aligned process. Conclusions: The area of software product management, in the context of market-driven software intensive product development, is a field with unique challenges. The specifics of the solutions are based on industry case studies performed to gauge state-of-the-art, as well as identify the main challenges. The decision support developed takes the form of maps and frameworks that support software product management on product and portfolio level decisions, strategic alignment, value-based requirements selection, and value-based process improvement.
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Cheung, Yau-kay Tony, and 張有基. "Product management systems for consumer products in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31264293.

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Castro, João Nuno Lopes. "Individuals in product development : interactions with teams and products." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62758.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2010.
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This dissertation focuses on how individuals involved in complex product development operate and interact with other people in the project and how they perceive and modify the product. Complex product development requires the collaboration of multiple individuals who are specialists in different disciplines. One of the challenges with the execution of design and development projects is coordinating the contributions of each individual to guarantee an aligned, seamless fit. I review a selection of the literature on team frameworks, coordination methods and empirical product development studies which address teams, individuals and product architectures and structures. I then conduct two studies. One focuses on individual to individual communication requirement stability and the other on individual interaction with product structure over the development period. In the first, I examine how the most important communication channels between individuals in multifunctional teams compare across thirteen different projects. In this study I found a direct correlation between functionally similar projects and their network of important communication links between individuals. This indicates that when faced with a problem of similar nature the profile of connections between individuals - which ones are more or less important - will also be similar. In the second, I study how individuals interact with the structure of a product in four software development projects. I found that most individual work is localized and consists of internal improvement work. When work is done that requires simultaneous modifications of several components, I found that the associations made between components does not follow the existing structural dependencies as indicated by the function calls between components. This behavior is consistent throughout the development of the projects and is not dependent on the design state of the product. The associations made between components are also not a good indicator of future structural dependencies. These observations do not follow the indications from previous work on team interactions and product structure, revealing that individuals make associations beyond those suggested by just the structural connections. It was also observed that individuals are able to identify and work on the most important components in a product and that work is conducted on components irrespective of their age in the system. Finally, a real-time observation of project execution method is proposed based on the several analysis steps developed within this thesis. The use of this method can be advantageous for practitioners to verify the progress of project and control deviations from plan. This thesis contributes directly to the stream of research of coordination in product development and contributes to the practice with new methods to help those involved in large-scale complex product development filter the extensive work done by many individuals and find areas of possible intervention.
by João Nuno Lopes Castro.
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Nilsson, Max, and Hampus Olsson. "Product Layout Optimization for Autonomous Warehouses with Grouped Products." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-19780.

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To utilize space better, warehouses stack their products on top of each other. This increases the risk of injury for workers when storing and retrieving the products. Some warehouses counteract this by using robots to retrieve products to a picking area where a human worker picks the products needed to fulfill an order. This means that it is important for the robots to be effective when retrieving products to reduce the time the worker spends waiting in the picking area. This thesis focuses on the grouping of products in the containers when they are stored in the warehouse. The robots will then retrieve one container at a time and if the grouping of products is done correctly this should decrease the number of retrievals required to fulfill an order. In order to make the decision on which products to group together, an application was developed that data mined previous orders that the warehouse had received in an attempt to extract information about the products. With the help of this information the application then suggests different product layouts that focus on different goals when they are created. The different layouts are then compared against each other in order to determine which layout technique produces the best results. This algorithm has been named the PLO-algorithm. The results showed that when a product is placed with the PLO-algorithm, the most important aspect to consider is the relations it has with the other products it is grouped with. The results also showed that data mining orders that are too old can have a negative impact on the result if not handled correctly. The results also showed that when constructing the warehouse you should try to avoid restrictions that affect which products can be placed together as much as possible since these restrictions can impact the effectiveness of the warehouse in a negative way. The thesis draws the conclusion that there is a clear gain in effectiveness for warehouses to have a planed layout for their products. It is recommended to data mine previous orders to extract relations between the products if possible since this piece of information showed the best results in this thesis. It is also in the warehouse best interest to avoid as many restrictions as possible that affect which products can be placed together since this can impact the results in a negative way. It is also beneficial to not include data that is too old in the data mining since this can impact the results in a negative way if not handled correctly.
För att utnyttja sitt utrymme bättre staplar lagerhus sina produkter på höjden. Detta medför högre risker för personskada vid hämtning och lämning av produkter, en del lagerhus löser detta genom att använda sig av robotar som hämtar och lämnar produkterna i lagerhuset. Robotarna hämtar och lämnar produkterna i en plock zon där en mänsklig arbetare plockar de produkter som behövs för en order. Detta innebär att det är viktigt att robotarna är effektiva i sin hämtning av produkter för att minska väntetiden för arbetarna i plock zonen. I ett försök att effektivisera robotarna fokuserar denna avhandling på gruperingen av produkterna i behållarna. Detta innebär att beslutet om vilka produkter som ska grupperas tillsammans i samma behållare är viktig eftersom om rätt produkter lagras tillsammans så kommer detta minska antalet hämtningar och lämningar som krävs för att uppfylla en beställning. För att hjälpa till med detta beslut skapades en applikation som analyserade tidigare beställningar som varuhuset erhållit i ett försök att extrahera information om produkterna. Applikationen skapar sedan olika förslag på produkt placeringar där de olika förslagen fokuserar på olika mål för att undersöka vilket mål som är viktigast att fokusera på när en produkt ska placeras. Algoritmen i denna applikation har valts att kallas för PLO-algoritmen. Resultaten visade att när en produkt ska placeras med PLO-algoritmen så är det viktigt att gruppera produkten med produkter den har starka relationer till. Resultatet visade också att när data ska analyseras bör inte för gammal data analyseras då äldre relationer mellan produkter som inte stämmer längre kan påverka resultatet negativt om algoritmen ej hanterar detta på något sätt. Resultaten visade också att vid konstruktionen av lagerhuset bör restriktioner som begränsar hur produkter kan placeras, undvikas om möjligt då dessa kan påverka lagerhusets effektivitet negativt. Slutsatsen som kan dras är att ett lagerhus kan tjäna väldigt mycket på att ha en plan när de bestämmer hur deras produkter ska placeras. Om det finns möjlighet att analysera tidigare beställningar efter relationer mellan produkter så är detta rekommenderat då det visade bäst resultat i denna undersökning. Det är även till lagerhusets fördel att försöka undvika restriktioner på deras lagersystem när det byggs eftersom det möjliggör för fler kombinationer när produkterna ska grupperas. Till sist så visar avhandlingen att med datan som användes att det var fördelaktigt att inte göra analys på för gammal data, då detta ger sämre resultat.
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Izadpanah, Seyed Hamedreza. "Méthode d'évolution de modèles produits dans les sytèmes PLM." Thesis, Grenoble, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011GRENI077/document.

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Le système PLM est l’un des outils stratégiques de l’entreprise. Ces systèmes sont sujets à des changements récurrents dans l’entreprise. Les évolutions organisationnelles, le changement de l’offre produit ou encore le remplacement de logiciels PLM peuvent déclencher l’évolution du système d’information PLM. Une des structures les plus importantes dans les systèmes PLM est le modèle du produit, autour duquel s’articule les informations et processus. C’est autour du modèle produit que se concentrent nos recherches. Les causes d’évolution des modèles produits sont des éléments signifiants qui différencient les étapes de la démarche à suivre. Les méthodes d’IDM sont utilisées afin de formaliser la transformation des modèles. En plus, cette démarche bénéfice d’un cadre de similarité spécialement développé pour la configuration de produit. Un exemple industriel est illustré et résolu en appliquant cette démarche. Il s’agit de l’évolution d’un système gérant les modèles spécifiques de produit vers un système qui est capable de construire et d’utiliser les modèles génériques de produit. Un outil informatique support à nos travaux est développé dans le cadre d'Eclipse
PLM systems are among the strategic components of enterprise’s information system architecture. These systems undergo frequent evolutions of enterprise. Organizational evolution or product offer variation as well as PLM application replacement may launch PLM systems’ evolution.One of the important structures in PLM systems is the product configuration, which organize and structure all product’s information and processes. Our research activities concern product model evolution. Reasons of product model evolution specify the appropriate methodology and necessary steps in order to handle it. MDE methods are used to formalize the model transformation process.Moreover, our methodology contains a specific similarity framework dedicated to product configuration. An industrial example was illustrated and resolved by this methodology. The problematic of this example is the migration of a system which manage only specific product configuration to a new system that is capable to construct and use generic models of product
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Rodgers, Paul A. "Product performance assessment." Thesis, University of Westminster, 1995. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/94998/product-performance-assessment.

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This thesis describes a formal methodology for defining and assessing product performance and its implementation in a prototype computer system. The methodology is based on abstract descriptions of the operations that are conducted within the design process. It is, consequently, extremely generic and creates a bridge between physical product performance and actual user requirements. The methodology is based on defining product attributes in terms of observable parameters of the product in use. Defining an attribute in this way inherently reflects its required interaction with the user and consequently can truly be said to be in "user terms" A product will have a range of attributes and a performance indicator is proposed, such that the attributes are combined in a way that reflects their relative importance to the user. At the conceptual stage of the design process, when the actual product does not exist, and only some abstract representation is available, it is vitally important to be able to model or simulate and hence evaluate the product attributes. This area of design has often been associated with non algorithmic design procedures, because of its intangible nature. In this thesis the attribute methodology has been used to implement a prototype Computer Aided Design Evaluation Tool (CADET), which has been used and tested with an existing product range. The methodology being abstractly defined supports a wide range of product attributes. It also gives an indication of how the correspondingly wide range of existing analysis software could be integrated into a powerful single Computer Aided Design system. This work has resulted in the publication of two papers in refereed Journals and the presentation of eight other papers at refereed International Conferences. A list of the publications is included in the Appendices.
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Henk, Michael B. "A study on project iterations and the effects seen on system constraint and project duration." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007henkm.pdf.

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Lindahl, Ingela. "Visual aesthetics in product development : A balance between commercial and creative imperatives." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Industriell ekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-100149.

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The literature presents a number of advantages regarding companies’ strategic focus on product design, arguing that the dimension of visual aesthetics in products may help a company to create commercial success, e.g. through product differentiation and as a means of company brand recognition. However, developing new products that have visual aesthetics as an important dimension is not without difficulty, and may lead to a number of managerial challenges. The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to describe and analyse how companies develop products that have visual aesthetics as an important dimension. The thesis describes and analyses: how the dimension of visual aesthetics affects the characteristics of the new product development process; how companies strike a balance between commercial and creative imperatives during new product development; and how companies source and collaborate using artistic design resources during new product development. Based on findings from five new product development projects and from interviews with managers at twelve Swedish designer furniture manufacturers, the thesis concludes that the dimension of visual aesthetics in products affects new product development in different ways. First, companies’ development of visual aesthetics calls for a more creative, artistic development process whereby, for example, idea generation and evaluation are often flexible in relation to plans made. Moreover, the different and subjective judgement of the aesthetic value of products has implications for new product development, e.g. that the company needs to address and balance imperatives stemming from different audiences, i.e. the designer’s self, peers, and the mass market, during product development. Also, it is concluded that the sourcing of designer resources and the composition of designer portfolios are both critical and related to companies’ desired brand image. A close and trustful working relationship between the designer and the manufacturer is a basis for companies’ successful product development. Theoretically, this research contributes to the product development literature through its findings on companies’ new product development processes in a seldom researched context, i.e. the development of designer products. Additionally, it contributes to the literature on design outsourcing by presenting new findings on the interplay between artistic design resources and managers. Moreover, it also contributes to the marketing literature by providing fresh insights into how companies balance their commercial and creative interests when developing new products.
Design och dess relation till företags marknadsföring är något som diskuteras både i akademisk litteratur och i samhället i övrigt. Genom att förstå och utnyttja design kan företaget skapa kommersiella fördelar, t ex genom att differentiera produkten från konkurrenternas och skapa igenkänning för företagets varumärke. Dock är utveckling av produkter med design som en viktig dimension inte oproblematisk utan kan leda till stora utmaningar för företaget. Tre sådana utmaningar i företag beskrivs och analyseras i denna avhandling. För det första behandlar avhandlingen hur ett fokus på design påverkar företagets produktutvecklingsprocess. Vidare studeras hur företaget balanserar kreativa och kommersiella intressen under produktutvecklingsprocessen. Dessutom behandlar avhandlingen hur företaget införskaffar och samarbetar med formgivare. Den industriella kontext som valts för denna avhandling är den svenska designmöbelindustrin. Avhandlingens slutsatser bygger på fallstudier inom väletablerade och framgångsrika företag inom denna industri. Avhandlingen visar att dimensionen av design påverkar företagens utvecklingsarbete på olika sätt. Först visar studien att de studerade företagens utveckling av designmöbler innebär en kreativ utvecklingsprocess där t.ex. idé-generering och ‑urval sällan grundas i strikta produktplaner utan i stället präglas av flexibilitet och tillvaratagande på uppkomna möjligheter. Vidare är bedömningen av en produkts designvärde subjektiv och svår att formulera i ord. Urvalet av lovande produktidéer grundas därför i hög grad på ledningens goda kunskap om design och erfarenhet inom branschen. Utöver detta påverkas företagens produktutveckling på olika sätt av det faktum att designvärde också skapas genom uppmärksamhet och uppskattning av exempelvis press, mässor och utmärkelser. Det visas också att företagens urval av formgivare är kritiskt och basen för ett framgångsrikt utvecklingsarbete. I de studerade företagen sker utveckling av produkter i nära och förtroendefullt samarbete mellan managers och formgivare. Dessutom kan företag påverka sitt varumärke genom att skapa en genomtänkt strategi för urval av formgivare och samarbetsformer med dessa.
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Bin, Sheng. "Web-based product platform development for mass customization /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36161469.

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Imramovská, Blanka. "Marketingová strategie nového produktu společnosti Malované Mapy, s.r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-204005.

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The objective of this Thesis is selection and adaptation of a suitable concept of a product being created. Selecion of the suitable concept is based on the designated concept and its testing. The testing is performed by the poll method among representatives of the public and business spheres. Determination of the final product concept as well as proposal of the marketing strategy for managers of Malované Mapy, s.r.o company is the outome. It will enable the managers to work on the further steps of developnent of new products. Based on the information from technical literature, the theoretical part explains the basic marketing terminology associated with the theme of the Thesis. This terminology is then applied in the practical part in the area of information processing by the company managers.
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Bishop, Gregory Loren. "A Comprehensive Model for Technology Push Product Development." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd394.pdf.

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Siddique, Zahed. "Common platform development : designing for product variety." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/17698.

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Zhongqi, Jin. "The impact of product newness on new product development processes : an exploration into the information and communications technology products." Thesis, University of Bath, 1997. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760699.

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Lamvik, Trond. "Improving Environmental Performance of Industrial Products through Product Service Systems." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-75.

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This dissertation deals with the unintended sideeffects of utilizing resources and causing environmental load.

The intention of this report is to contribute to a leap improvement in enviornmental performance of industrial products. The results of the dissertation are directed towards companies that want to eliminate, or at best reduce the unintended side effects of their activities and industrial products.

The results are directed to the research community as a contribution to research on the effect of a shift from product-based to function-based economic system, and the potential improvement in environmental performance this may imply.

The main contribution of this dissertation is a strategy for developing product service combinations and thereby closing material loops of industrial products. The result is based upon product development models, creative tools and performance measurement combined with the resolution of the basic physical contradiction into a four step strategy for a long term shift of a business model based on product service combinations instead of products only. The fourstep strategy involves traditional product development models with focus on holistic lifespan thinking. Furthermore, emphasize is made to the need to include the creative tools to conquer psychological inertia and barriers for leap improvements in environmental performance.

The strategy is mainly based upon logical resoning and thought experiments and combined with observations in industry. It is difficult to give a final proof of the usefulness of the strategy, due to the time needed to perform such a strategic shift in the core activities of a business.This research has furthermore contributed to

• a clarification of the source of environmental load during the meetings between product and product life system where any action to reduce the original load will result in load of its own which means that the fundamental cause of load is still not resolved. Any attempt to remove the fundamental cause of side-effect is a true physical contradiction which violates the second law of thermodynamics.

• a clearer understanding of the need not only to integrate the different disciplines across a company’s operations, but also integrate along the value chain to capture the valuable information which arise during meetings between product and product life systems.

• a deeper understanding of the need to include creative techniques into the early phases of product development proejcts where dispositions for subsequent project phases and subsequent product life phases are disposed and locked against subsequent major modifications. Creative techniques contribute to the break out of existing mind patterns and contribute to the creation of solutions which reduce the business-as-usual pattern which acts as a barrier to leap improvement in environmental performance

• a clarification of the need to identify and develop the company’s environmental perspective. The need to develop strategies for improvingenvironmental performance of company internal processes, product systems and systemic networks of actors along the value chain is vital to achieve leap improvements in environemntal performance.

• a deeper understanding of the barriers to overcome to transform products-based business to service-based business.

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Trinka, Mark W. "Product-market opportunities for FPL spaceboard II molded structural products." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10312009-020141/.

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Kussad, Ahmad Adnan. "High speed product positioning of compliant food products for packaging." Thesis, University of Salford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261612.

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Eliasson, Oskar, and Alexander Johansson. "Managing Barriers with Product-Service Systems for Non-Assembled Products." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-69301.

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Purpose - The purpose of this thesis is to investigate what barriers there are when it comes to developing PSS in the process industry for their non-assembled products, both from a provider and customer perspective. Additionally, the purpose is further to investigate how companies can manage these barriers. Method - This master thesis is an exploratory multiple case study with an abductive approach. In total, 25 qualitative interviews were made, with respondents from seven different companies, both companies within the process industry and companies who act as customers to the process industry. The interviews were made during two phases, the first phase was exploratory interviews and the second phase was semi-structured interviews, the collected data were later analyzed with a thematic analysis. Findings - The main findings from this study is divided in five overarching categories, three originating from the interviews provider perspective, and two from the customer perspective, within all overarching categories, barriers and possible ways to manage these are identified. The three provider categories are: Characteristics of the process industry, Market and customer awareness and Extensive transformation required. Additionally, the customers categories are Customers perspectives of servitization and Fundamental management activities. The barriers from these categories has been grouped in a framework after the two constraints time and difficulty. Theoretical implications - This study contribute to the current literature about PSS, which has a clear gap when it comes to PSS for non-assembled products. This study contributes in two ways: Firstly, the findings from this study suggest that some part of the literature about PSS for assembled products could be transferred to products that are non-assembled, above this, the findings also highlighting unique barriers with PSS for non-assembled products. Secondly, this study contribute with clarity about how different barriers should be managed, something that partly lacks in today's PSS literature. Practical implications - With this study, companies within the process industry are provided with support when it comes to investigating new business opportunities, if it is worth for the companies within the process industry to start working with PSS, or if it is not. This study has three important contributions for managers. Firstly, due to the unique characteristics of the process industry, it is suggested that managers broaden the perspective and look wider than just the core-process to find servitization-possibilities. Secondly, managers are provided with useful information regarding PSS which could make them more comfortable when deciding to work with servitization, or not. Thirdly, as the findings shows that the process industry has constrained resources, a framework is presented aiming to aid managers prioritize which barriers to manage. Research limitations - Due to the limited time for this master thesis, only companies within Sweden has been contacted, at each company, a maximum of two persons were contacted.
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Flankegård, Filip. "The use of data within Product Development of manufactured products." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Innovation och produktrealisering, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-35084.

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Levitt, Benjamin (Benjamin P. ). "Product service transformation in product-centric firms." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90716.

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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-97).
In slow or no-growth economies, firms cannot rely solely on recurring business from large, core customers who often delay or cancel capital investments in belt-tightening times. To achieve growth, firms must lever domain knowledge to expand business markets to find new customers. A core method to accomplish this expansion is through service models that can provide recurring revenues without as much up-front investment for customers. However, in a product-centric firm, the process of transforming a product into a service can be complex, and is the motivation for this research. No other complete explanation of this process has been published to date. The goal of researching this process is to give direction to managers who are considering transforming a product into service. The research led to building a service model using the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) Radar System as its subject. The CASA Radar System is an X-Band Phased-Array Radar used for weather forecasting and environmental warning, led by University of Massachusetts with the assistance from several universities and industry partners. The radar system provides capabilities that did not exist previously in larger and less price effective systems, but was only available to be acquired directly, for upwards of $600 million. The CASA model sought to show how transforming the radar system from a product to a service could create value for the UMASS led team by selling more systems in a new service model to new customers, including weather-sensing firms and non-profits that want access to the CASA Radar System and would even pay for it, but were unable to support its standard capital costs.
by Benjamin Levitt.
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Williams, Timothy. "Product ecosystems: Extrinsic value in product design." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132602/1/Timothy_Williams_Thesis.pdf.

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Industrial designers create the everyday products that enrich our lives. In recent decades, the discipline has been transformed by disruptive innovation, social change and the "humanisation of technology", with Industrial Designers now creating total user experiences across multiple products and services. Unfortunately, the design process sometimes fails to adapt to the increased complexity of our world. This thesis describes the development of a new and more holistic way to approach the complex task of design: Product ecosystem thinking. This new design 0ethod demonstrates how products gain value from the ecosystem, providing a conceptual framework for Industrial Designers.
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Bukhari, S. (Syed). "Performance management for product portfolio management, new product development & rapid product development." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201802071150.

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Ever evolving and changing market scenarios have increased the competition between organizations to maximize the performance of their products and operations. In this challenging environment performance of product portfolio management (PPM), new product development (NPD), rapid product development (RaDe) have significant impact on their monetary values. To deal with the existing scenarios, the performance management of the product development and its related internal process of portfolio management is very crucial. NPD and RaDe processes result in a new sales item which needs to be effectively introduced in the product portfolio, but the performance measurement is required to develop the sales item and maintain them in the portfolio. This study is researched and worked upon in five stages. The existing targets and KPIs are studied after a through literature review. The current practices of case companies were identified and the similarities and differences were observed. In the end, a new performance management frameworks was developed to manage NPD and RaDe projects including their impacts to the product portfolio. The developed new performance management framework for NPD and RaDe divides the activities into two phases, planning and development. During the planning phase the PPM targets and KPIs will provide analysis and decision making concept to start NPD or RaDe type of product development to create new sales items into the portfolio. The second phase, the NPD and RaDe development, provides metrics for the NPD and RaDe project execution. The developed framework is generic and will be suitable for both RaDe and NPD activities. In the framework, the company and PPM strategy is aligned with the success factors to achieve the required targets, measured through quantifiable or non-quantifiable KPIs to evaluate the success of the new product and its impact to the product portfolio.
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Akata, Akanay. "Gendering Of Products: In Industrial Design." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/4/1033323/index.pdf.

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This study examines gender typing of industrial products in the activity of industrial design. Thus firstly, the meaning of gender, related theories and gender stereotypes have been reviewed through the literature survey in order to pinpoint the stereotypical attributes assigned to men and women through society and culture. Secondly, the effect of the stereotypical gender attributes on the act of possessing products have been examined. In return, a literature survey on the cognitive aspects of design has been conducted in order to question whether these gender attributes might have a similar impact on the design activity. The findings of the literature survey pointed towards categorical information processing theories as an appropriate tool to gender type products and also as a tool to measure the gender qualities of a product. To test the applicability of the methodology of categorization a study has been conducted with industrial designers and industrial design students in which the students were asked to design gender typed products and industrial designers were asked to rate their perceptions of genderedness of the designs. The test revealed the existence of a mental library consisting of categorized images corresponding to stereotypical gender attributes in the individuals, thus preparing the grounds for the use of this process in the industrial design activity.
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Niven, Catherine. "Evaluating Australian and US consumer product safety regulatory responses to hazardous children's products." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203461/2/Catherine_Niven_Thesis.pdf.

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While there is evidence that unsafe children's products enter the Australian market, no research currently examines product safety regulatory responses to identify their frequency, type and nature. This study built, and then analysed, an extensive knowledge base of Australian and US product safety regulatory responses over the period 2011-17 to provide a more comprehensive understanding of hazardous children's products. This cross-disciplinary research then applied a public health approach to this unique empirical evidence to identify the need for further child product safety research and regulatory reform in Australia.
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Kenger, Patrik. "Module property verification : A method to plan and perform quality verifications in modular architectures." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3965.

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Kuleli, Kerem. "User-product Interaction In New Product Encounters: Prominence Of User Expertise And Product Properties." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606620/index.pdf.

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User-product interaction is a multi-dimensional, multi-faceted and multi-modal everyday encounter. This study concentrates on the two most prominent actors of this interaction, namely, the user and the product, whereby user expertise and product innovativeness are given special attention. Prominence of user expertise in new product encounters, especially those with innovative products, is established through the findings of two case studies.
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Junková, Tereza. "Využití symbolů v marketingové komunikaci." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-72040.

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The diploma thesis clarifies the concrete usage of symbols in marketing communication on the base of examination of the symbol's problems and the marketing research. It was finding out by the research how the symbolism is perceived in marketing communication, how and how much are consumers influenced by symbols, if they even realize the influence, how symbols impress them, which symbols impress them positively or negatively and which symbols they prefer. From the accomplished analysis of the results of questionnaire research follows that the most of consumers realize the symbolism in marketing communication and they are able to recognize it. Respondests were able to match concrete symbols with concrete products in many cases. Different symbols cause different reactions at respondents, which depends on gender, age and education. The usage of symbolism in marketing communication has to respect definite rules and recommendation. Usage of unsuitable symbol can lead to totally different result than was planned. That is why it is necessary to be thorough and to pay attention to the usage of symbolism in marketing communication. The usage of symbols helps the product to penetrate better the awareness of consumers and mainly to ground hard and stay in their mind.
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Hollins, William J. "Product status and the management of product design." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1989. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21218.

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Changes in product design occur either innovatively where new concepts are used (Dynamic Design Status) or incrementally where changes are made without altering the existing concept (Static Design Status). This thesis identifies. the factors that make a product static or dynamic and then proposes the disciplines that should be emphasised when designing a product of a particular status. This is then used in the development of Design Process which is recommended as a user "tool" for directing the Design Manager through the stages of design from the market need, or product idea, through to the stage where detail design commences. Several publications have resulted from this research.
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Parviainen, A. (Antti). "Product portfolio management requirements for product data management." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2014. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201409021800.

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In large organisations today the amount of products is numerous and it is challenging for senior management to have proper control and understanding over all products. As the product is the most important aspect for an organisation to consider, senior management must have ability to manage investments on products and follow development of product related indicators. Managing products as investment on portfolio level, where products are divided into a limited amount of portfolios is a solution for achieving decent control over product investments on senior management level. Product portfolio management is decision making oriented, where the goal is to make the best possible strategic and financial decisions when allocating constraint resources across the entire product portfolio. The product portfolio management aims to increase strategic fit of chosen new product projects, balance in product portfolio and maximizing value of the products. The product portfolio management is constantly ongoing, cross-functional decision making function which is present in all lifecycle states of the portfolios. In this research the product portfolios are seen as investments for mainly internal use of a decision making process. The product portfolios are items that are embodied into the case company’s product data management system and the product portfolios have own lifecycle states. Approach in this research is constructive, where a current state of the case company is analysed and based on the analysis and the literature review a construction is established. The Research questions are: 1) What are the required product structures in product data management systems to support product portfolio management practices? 2) What are the information elements and their lifecycle states and what they should be in product data management systems to support product portfolio decisions? Results of this research are the current state analysis committed in the case company and the construction of product portfolio management structure and lifecycle states. In the construction a portfolio package is defined. The portfolio package is the item used for embodying portfolios into the information systems. An information model for implementing the portfolio packages into the product data management system is introduced. The construction also presents product structure for implementing the portfolio package into the product data management system. Relation of lifecycle states between the portfolio package and other items in a product hierarchy is assessed in a nested lifecycle model. Two models, required and recommended, are suggested for the company to consider for managing the lifecycle of the portfolio package item. All the results are validated from several perspectives.
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Pereira, Juliana Alves. "Search-based product configuration in software product lines." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ESBF-9Q4FQ9.

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Software product lines (SPL) is a software engineering method for creating configurable software systems that can be adapted to a variety of requirements. SPL uses feature models to document the commonalities and variabilities of products. The key challenge is to derive a product configuration that satisfies all business and costumer requirements. Customer requirements are usually neglected, although product configuration has already been investigated in the literature. This dissertation presents a search-based approach to tackle the problem of finding the optimal product configuration that maximizes the customer satisfaction. The latter is modeled as an optimization problem. An exact algorithm and a heuristic are proposed to solve the problem and implemented in a prototype tool. Computational experiments showed that the exact algorithm can find the optimal product configuration for real-life instances found in the literature and that the optimality gap of the heuristic is at most 3%.
Linha de produtos de software (LPS) é um método de engenharia de software para a criação de sistemas de software configuráveis que podem ser adaptados a uma variedade de conjuntos de requisitos. LPS comumente usa modelo de características para capturar e documentar as semelhanças e variabilidades de produtos. O principal desafio é derivar uma configuração de produto que satisfaça todos os requisitos do negócio e do cliente. Os requisitos dos clientes são normalmente negligenciados, embora a configuração do produto já foi investigada na literatura. Esta dissertação apresenta uma abordagem de engenharia de software baseada em busca para resolver o problema de encontrar a configuração de produto ótima que maximiza a satisfação do cliente. Este último é modelado como um problema de otimização. Um algoritmo exato e uma heurística são propostas para resolver o problema e implementado em uma ferramenta protótipo. Experimentos computacionais mostraram que o algoritmo exato pode encontrar a configuração ótima do produto para instancias reais da literatura e que a diferença entre o resultado heurístico e a solução ótima é de no máximo 3%.
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Andrle, Štěpán. "Praxe product placementu v české tvorbě." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-149817.

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This thesis deals with the functioning of product placement in Czech television and film production. The theoretical part describes its role in marketing communication, its specifics and characteristics. Also, these characteristics are illustrated in specific examples. The practical part deals with the current situation in the country. It examines the attitudes and experiences of professionals implementing product placement and production of film and television works. It discusses the process of implementation of product placement. It also describes how the correct product placement should look like, which is then illustrated by specific examples.
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Nallani, Chakravartula Madhavi. "Coal hydrotreatment with coal-derived solvents to produce carbon product precursors." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2005. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=4237.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2005.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 134 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-120).
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Guyton, Allison Amis. "Developing Sustainable Product Semantics for Consumer Products: A Sustainable Designer's Guide." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-07092006-135211/.

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Schütte, Simon. "Designing Feelings into Products : Integrating Kansei Engineering Methodology in Product Development." Licentiate thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Machine Design, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2658.

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Tendencies in product development of today make it likely that many future products will be functional equivalent and therefore hard to distinguish between for the customer. Customers will decide by highly subjective criteria which product to purchase. One task for product development in this context is to be able to capture the customer’s considerations and feelings of products and translate these emotional aspects into concrete product design.

Today a number of different methods, such as Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Semantical Environment Description (SMB), Conjoint Analysis and Kansei Engineering exist and are used in practical applications.

The purpose of this thesis is to understand and apply Kansei Engineering methodology and explore ways to integrate the methodology into an industrial product development process.

This was done by conducting a study on forklift trucks in different European countries and business areas and by exploring ways of integrating Kansei Engineering in product development processes.

The number of Kansei words collected was reduced based on the result of a pilot study using a combination of different tools. A computerized data collection method was used in combination with a modified VAS-scale in order to reduce the time for filling out the evaluation forms The results of the study in the visited Northern and Middle European companies make it evident that Kansei Engineering has to be adapted in several aspects to the circumstances in each situation. The data showed that there are differences in attitude towards reach trucks in the different European countries. These results were used in order to adapt the product requirements for each specific country. Starting at Cooper’s stage gate model Kansei Engineering was applied on a macro level, a micro level and for verifying purpose. Using QFD, Kansei Engineering helps to identify customer needs their importance and the technical responses as well as to conduct benchmarking and to connect the customer needs mathematically to the technical responses.

This study of Kansei Engineering revealed that there was no general model on the methodology available in English literature. Outgoing from a previous flowchart, a conceptual framework of Kansei Engineering was developed integrating the existing Kansei Engineering Types and future tools.


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Ersoz, Keriman Hande. "Price Determination For Bundled Products: Application For A Household Product Group." Thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614640/index.pdf.

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The aim of this thesis is to search for the best way to allocate revenues gathered from a group of products in a household supplies company. In so doing, it purports to determine the price which brings customer perception and organizational benefit to equilibrium. To compare alternatives of revenue allocation methods, data obtained for a main product and its variants from a household company will be analyzed in an organized manner. Three ways of product bundling (pure bundling, mixed bundling, unbundling) is discussed as a framework for underlying different detailed aspects. In the end, pricing and promotional policies of the company is critically evaluated and simultaneous strategy changes are suggested.
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Bringans, Scott D. "Studies on natural product derivatives : HIV therapies incorporating marine natural products." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Chemistry, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6699.

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CV-N is an 11 kDa, anti-HIV protein that binds strongly to the envelope glycoprotein, gp120, expressed on the outer surface of the free virion and also on HIV-infected cells. As such, it represents an important lead for development of anti-HIV therapeutics. Marine toxins such as the halichondrins have potent in vivo cytotoxicities and are lethal to cells. The combination of this potency of the marine toxins with the unique targeting capability of CV-N has been harnessed to produce conjugates that have the potential to selectively target and eliminate HIV-infected cells. Three forms of the protein were developed; the native protein itself, a derivative recombinantly produced in E. coli with an extra cysteine at the C-terminal (CV-N-Cys) and CV-N with the lysine side chain amines converted into thiols (thiolated-CV-N). To facilitate release of the toxin within infected cells an enzymatically-cleavable pHdependent biolinker was incorporated separating the toxin from the protein. The chemistry required for incorporation of protein, biolinker, and toxin, was established through synthesis of fluorescently labelled conjugates capable of reaction with CV-N. Biological testing of these derivatives showed no interference with the anti-HIV activity of the CV-N when conjugated in these model compounds. Synthetic strategies were developed to produce two derivatives of norhomohalichondrin B amine, both containing the cleavable biolinker, but with activation from succinimidyl esters and maleimido groups respectively. Native CV-N was reacted with the succinimidyl ester derived toxin construct to produce a CV-N-biolinker-toxin conjugate. The maleimido derivative toxin construct was reacted with both CV-N-Cys and thiolated-CV -N to produce closely related CV-N-toxin conjugates. Investigations into the binding properties and cell toxicities of these conjugates is currently underway.
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Yang, Xiaoyu. "Methodology and tools for realising product service systems for consumer products." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4279.

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