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Journal articles on the topic "Through Life Information Management"
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Ball, Alexander, Manjula Patel, Chris McMahon, Stuart Green, John Clarkson, and Steve Culley. "A Grand Challenge: Immortal Information and Through-Life Knowledge Management (KIM)." International Journal of Digital Curation 1 (December 2, 2008): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v1i1.5.
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‘Immortal information and through-life knowledge management: strategies and tools for the emerging product-service business paradigm’, is a Grand Challenge project involving eleven different UK universities and incorporating substantial industry collaboration. It is investigating a range of issues associated with the move towards a product-service paradigm in the engineering sector, in particular the long-term curation of digital data, learning from production and use, and appropriate governance and management techniques.
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Adamski, Adam, and Julia Adamska. "Quantum-Information Processes in Awareness Management." Biomedical Research and Clinical Reviews 6, no. 3 (2022): 01–04. http://dx.doi.org/10.31579/2692-9406/104.
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Human mental life is a form of existence of information not only electromagnetic, but also acoustic, spin, soliton and bioplasm. That is, the layout the biological human in addition to the biochemical way uses the message of information using energy and information converters in living cells. The human biological system creates the pictorial structure of the world not only through sensory perception, but also on the basis of soliton, spin and bioplasm waves. The action of solitons in the biological system of man gives the basis for seeing the psychobiological structures of man in a different light, as presented in biology, medicine and psychology. The science to date recognizes only the action of an electromagnetic wave on the sense of sight. It can be concluded that we are dealing with a second center that creates the structure of the world image and is responsible for health and the development of diseases in humans. According to the authors, consciousness cooperates with the cosmos and is guided by the laws of quantum mechanics. Under its law, there is room for artificial consciousness. In their deliberations, the authors will understand that it is a dynamic structure of quantum-cybernetic-information team processes taking place in the bioplasm of the brain, which is in synergistic interaction with biocomputer simulation, guided by the emission of coherent light, modulated by a soliton wave.
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McMahon, Chris, Matt Giess, and Steve Culley. "Information management for through life product support: the curation of digital engineering data." International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management 1, no. 1 (2005): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijplm.2005.007343.
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Rofi, Aliyyu, Fadillah Putra, and I. Gede Sentanu. "Creating Innovation of Public Value Through Management Information Systems." Jurnal Bina Praja 13, no. 3 (2021): 513–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.21787/jbp.13.2021.513-528.
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Abstract: The use of information technology cannot be escaped from everyday life in society. In the context of improving the public sector, the government is required to improve performance, responsibility, and public trust and focus more on providing better services by revitalizing public administration by increasing transparency and prioritizing service quality. The Bureau of Personnel uses the “SIMPEG” application in the form of digitizing the public sector which is considered an extraordinary opportunity to create public value. This research is focused on the approach of the SIMPEG pre and post-mobile SSO. The method adopted by this study was mixed methods. The implementation of SIMPEG mobile SSO at the Ministry of Home Affairs has fulfilled the three aspects of the public values stated by Moore, namely legitimacy and support, operational capabilities, and public value. However, based on the findings within the field, some things are still not appropriate. For example, there is still the use of paper-based administration, so that the mobile SSO service has not been optimized. Based on the dimensions of system quality, information quality, and service quality, SIMPEG based on web-based are categorized as quite sustainable, whereas after using SIMPEG mobile SSO application was classified as very sustainable. When viewed from the results of stress and RSQ values, it can be said that the results of the MDS in this study describe a good model and can represent the problems being discussed and conclude that only SIMPEG mobile SSO application is recommended for sustainability.
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Lee, Kuo-Wei, Maria Corazon L. Lanting, and Maneesap Rojdamrongratana. "Managing customer life cycle through knowledge management capability: a contextual role of information technology." Total Quality Management & Business Excellence 28, no. 13-14 (2016): 1559–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14783363.2016.1150779.
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Dogan, Huseyin, Michael J. de C. Henshaw, and Gillian Ragsdell. "The Risk of Information Management Without Knowledge Management: A Case Study." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 10, no. 04 (2011): 393–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649211003085.
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This paper appraises the criticism that "Knowledge Management (KM) is little more than re-packaged Information Management (IM)" through analysis of the relationships and inconsistencies between IM and KM. This is supported by a case study of the loss of an UK Royal Air Force aircraft known as 'Nimrod' as reported in the Haddon-Cave Independent Review. The first part discusses the research methodology adopted and analyses the literature including the theoretical characteristics and practical aspects of IM and KM. This is supported by logical models and relationship tables for comparison. The second part develops an analytical framework by applying evaluation criteria, based on principles for Through Life Management of information, to a case study to address the statement that "information is inadequate without knowledge." The logical models and case study insertions uncovered important conclusions: (1) KM is frequently confused with IM and reliance on IM only can sometimes result in a disaster; (2) it is imperative to understand the distinctions between IM and KM as "management of knowledge" is concerned with socio-technical, hence human, aspects to a greater extent than IM; (3) IM should be considered as a prerequisite to engaging KM; and (4) KM should be perceived as the creation and management of knowledge as a human centred attribute that involves a learning and transformation process. This paper systematically applies the derived logical models and analysis framework to a case study to better understand and illustrate the implications of Through Life Management of information and knowledge.
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Badiru, Adedeji B. "Half-Life of Learning Curves for Information Technology Project Management." International Journal of Information Technology Project Management 1, no. 3 (2010): 28–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jitpm.2010070103.
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Learning curves are used extensively in business, science, technology, engineering, and industry to predict system performance over time. Although most of the early development and applications were in the area of production engineering, contemporary applications can be found in all areas of applications. Information technology project management, in particular, offers a fertile area for the application of learning curves. This paper applies the concept of half-life of learning curves to information technology project management. This is useful for predictive measures of information technology system performance. Half-life is the amount of time it takes for a quantity to diminish to half of its original size through natural processes. The approach of half-life computation provides an additional decision tool for researchers and practitioners in information technology management. Derivation of the half-life equations of learning curves can reveal more about the properties of the various curves with respect to the unique life-cycle property of information technology.
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Vo, Au, and Rahul Bhaskar. "Enabling Quality Assurance Analytics through the Use of Information Systems." Journal of Cases on Information Technology 16, no. 1 (2014): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2014010101.
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The juice manufacturing industry is a nascent industry. The increased pace of life and focus on a healthy life style has given rise to the industry. Orange Juice Company (OCJ), based in California, is one of the leading juice co-packers in the nation. However, despite their excellence in manufacturing, their technology adoption is behind that of their competition, especially in quality assurance. Because quality assurance plays an essential part in their businesses, they want to improve the processes by digitization and enable quality assurance analytics. They hope that by investing in quality assurance, they would be able to gain competitive advantage in juice manufacturing.
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MONAGA REINA, RICARDO, ANA DE LAS HERAS GARCIA DE VINUESA, AMALIA LUQUE SENDRA, and JUAN RAMON LAMA RUIZ. "IMPROVEMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT THROUGH A PLM STRUCTURE. GOOD PRACTICES AND A CASE STUDY." DYNA DYNA-ACELERADO (February 16, 2021): [ 6 pp.]. http://dx.doi.org/10.6036/9915.
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One of the challenges facing organizations today is how to properly manage sustainability. This situation is highly complex as the amount of information relating to projects to be managed increases considerably. Therefore, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems can be the solution for reducing the complexity of this information management, since they connect the different stakeholders of the product life cycle, allowing them to access information from all stages of the project life cycle. However, there are still no tools that manage sustainability in a efficient way. That is why it is proposed an innovative tool, ARTIST, which allows organizations to know the current state of sustainability of the organization, as well as the situation associated with all stakeholders who interact in the project, while enabling the options to study the margins for improvement in the area of sustainability from the perspective of integrating the Triple E. It is a proposal for an agile, robust, flexible and adaptable tool for all organizations developed in the field of industry 4.0 and interconnected management systems following objective 12 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) where work is done so that organizations adopt sustainable practices and incorporate information on sustainability in their life cycle. Keywords: sustainability, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), stakeholder; organization
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Inui, Kentaro, Yotaro Watanabe, Kenshi Yamaguchi, et al. "Computer-Assisted Databasing of Disaster Management Information Through Natural Language Processing." Journal of Disaster Research 10, no. 5 (2015): 830–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2015.p0830.
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During times of disaster, local government departments and divisions need to communicate a broad range of information for disaster management to share the understating of the changing situation. This paper addresses the issues of how to effectively use a computer database system to communicate disaster management information and how to apply natural language processing technology to reduce the human labor for databasing a vast amount of information. The database schema was designed based on analyzing a collection of real-life disaster management information and the specifications of existing standardized systems. Our data analysis reveals that our database schema sufficiently covers the information exchanged in a local government during the Great East Earthquake. Our prototype system is designed so as to allow local governments to introduce it at a low cost: (i) the system’s user interface facilitates the operations for databasing given information, (ii) the system can be easily customized to each local municipality by simply replacing the dictionary and the sample data for training the system, and (iii) the system can be automatically adapted to each local municipality or each disaster incident through its capability of automatic learning from the user’s corrections to the system’s language processing outputs.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Through Life Information Management"
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Carstens, Wiehahn Alwyn. "Regression analysis of caterpillar 793D haul truck engine failure data and through-life diagnostic information using the proportional hazards model." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20333.
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Thesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Physical Asset Management (PAM) is becoming a greater concern for companies
in industry today. The widely accepted British Standards Institutes’ specification
for optimized management of physical assets and infrastructure is PAS55.
According to PAS55, PAM is the “systematic and co-ordinated activities and practices
through which an organization optimally manages its physical assets, and
their associated performance, risks and expenditures over their life cycle for the
purpose of achieving its organizational strategic plan”.
One key performance area of PAM is Asset Care Plans (ACP). These plans
are maintenance strategies which improve or ensure acceptable asset reliability
and performance during its useful life. Maintenance strategies such as Condition
Based Maintenance (CBM) acts upon Condition Monitoring (CM) data, disregarding
the previous failure histories of an asset. Other maintenance strategies,
such as Usage Based Maintenance (UBM), is based on previous failure histories,
and does not consider CM data.
Regression models make use of both CM data and previous failure histories
to develop a model which represents the underlying failure behaviour of the asset
under study. These models can be of high value in ACP development due to the
fact that Residual Useful Life (RUL) can be estimated and/or the long term life cycle cost can be optimized.
The objective of this thesis was to model historical failure data and CM data
well enough so that RUL or optimized preventive maintenance instant estimations
can be made. These estimates were used in decision models to develop maintenance
schedules, i.e. ACPs.
Several regression models were evaluated to determine the most suitable model
to achieve the objectives of this thesis. The model found to be most suitable for
this research project was the Proportional Hazards Model (PHM). A comprehensive
investigation on the PHM was undertaken focussing on the mathematics and
the practical implementation thereof.
Data obtained from the South African mining industry was modelled with the
Weibull PHM. It was found that the developed model produced estimates which
were accurate representations of reality. These findings provide an exciting basis
for the development of futureWeibull PHMs that could result in huge maintenance
cost savings and reduced failure occurrences.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Fisiese Bate Bestuur (FBB) is besig om ’n groter bekommernis vir maatskappye
in die bedryf te word. Die Britse Standaarde Instituut se spesifikasie vir optimale
bestuur van fisiese bates en infrastruktuur is PAS55. Volgens PAS55 is FBB die
“sistematiese en gekoördineerde aktiwiteite en praktyke wat deur ’n organisasie
optimaal sy fisiese bates, hul verwante prestasie, risiko’s en uitgawes vir die doel
van die bereiking van sy organisatoriese strategiese plan beheer oor hul volle lewensiklus
te bestuur”.
Een Sleutel Fokus Area (SFA) van FBB is Bate Versorgings Plan (BVP) ontwikkeling.
Hierdie is onderhouds strategieë wat bate betroubaarheid verbeter of
verseker tydens die volle bruikbare lewe van die bate. Een onderhoud strategie
is Toestands Gebasseeerde Onderhoud (TGO) wat besluite baseer op Toestand
Monitering (TM) informasie maar neem nie die vorige falingsgeskiedenis van die
bate in ag nie. Ander onderhoud strategieë soos Gebruik Gebasseerde Onderhoud
(GGO) is gebaseer op historiese falingsdata maar neem nie TM inligting in ag nie.
Regressiemodelle neem beide TM data en historiese falings geskiedenis data in
ag ten einde die onderliggende falings gedrag van die gegewe bate te verteenwoordig. Hierdie modelle kan baie nuttig wees vir BVP ontwikkeling te danke aan die
feit dat Bruikbare Oorblywende Lewe (BOL) geskat kan word en/of die langtermyn
lewenssilus koste geoptimeer kan word.
Die doelwit van hierdie tesis was om historiese falingsdata en TT data goed
genoeg te modelleer sodat BOL of optimale langtermyn lewensiklus kostes bepaal
kan word om opgeneem te word in BVP ontwikkeling. Hierdie bepalings word dan
gebruik in besluitnemings modelle wat gebruik kan word om onderhoud skedules
op te stel, d.w.s. om ’n BVP te ontwikkel.
Verskeie regressiemodelle was geëvalueer om die regte model te vind waarmee
die doel van hierdie tesis te bereik kan word. Die mees geskikte model vir die navorsingsprojek
was die Proporsionele Gevaarkoers Model (PGM). ’n Omvattende
ondersoek oor die PGM is onderneem wat fokus op die wiskunde en die praktiese
implementering daarvan.
Data is van die Suid-Afrikaanse mynbedryf verkry en is gemodelleer met behulp
van die Weibull PGM. Dit was bevind dat die ontwikkelde model resultate
geproduseer het wat ’n akkurate verteenwoordinging van realiteit is. Hierdie bevindinge
bied ’n opwindende basis vir die ontwikkeling van toekomstige Weibull
Proporsionele Gevaarkoers Modelle wat kan lei tot groot onderhoudskoste besparings
en minder onverwagte falings.
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Скворчевський, Олександр Євгенович. "Загальне середовище даних (Shared Data Environment), як інтегруючий компонент елементів CALS-технологій". Thesis, Національної академії Національної гвардії України, 2017. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/35021.
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Nel, Petrus Abel. "A competitive advantage through information management." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49667.
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Morris, Ashley. "Product change management : to improve the through-life management of high-value, long-life products." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/111198/.
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The designs of complex products such as aircraft, trains and industrial plant continually evolve, during design, manufacture and also during their operating lives. Such products are invariably managed in complex multi-stakeholder environments. The product change process generates significant volumes of information and this continues through-life as designs are modified in the light of technological innovation, supplier changes and operating experience. The volume of information generated is enabled by increased network connectivity together with the competitive advantages that can be derived from greater product knowledge derived from monitoring product performance. As the service economy has grown, manufacturing and maintenance activities have increasingly been outsourced to enable a greater focus on higher, value-added, aftermarket, support services. Consequently, while the responsibility for managing the design of the end product rests with “Tier 1” manufacturers, operators and maintainers, there has been a significant increase in the responsibility for suppliers to manage design changes. To improve the management of the product change process is difficult because it spans many organizations in the supply chain and to make progress requires collaborative action. Managing products during their life, particularly in the context of design changes, is a complex process that requires the coordination of many activities spanning design, procurement, production, marketing, sales, support and disposal. These activities constitute a complex process model that is highly dependent on accurate information and can have a significant impact on an organization’s cost base. In addition "products" sold by a Manufacturer are often described as "assets" by a product operator. Regardless of whether something is considered a "product" or an "asset", the change process is supported by a value chain that spans both the domains of manufacturing and support services. Working practices and skills must constantly adapt in response to innovation and this includes the mental perspectives with which people view the world and solve problems. A significant challenge that organizations face when seeking to remain competitive relates to the need to respond to the challenges of innovation. This drives a perpetual cycle of problem solving whereby existing operations are assessed and opportunities for improvement identified. This research assesses the challenges to maintaining design integrity throughout the product lifecycle, explores the impact of inaccurate product information and sets-out an approach to achieving improvements to the management of product information specifically for complex products.
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Ryan, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne) 1961. "Sustainable competitive advantage through information technology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9193.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2000.<br>Also available online on DSpace at MIT.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaf 48).<br>This paper discusses the difficulty of achieving sustainable competitive advantage through information technology. While information technology proliferates and innovations arise frequently, few companies have been able to use IT to remain leaders in their industries. Using a framework proposed by Michael Scott Morton, this paper examines how one firm, Capital One Financial, has created sustainable competitive advantage through a powerful combination of its information technology, strategic planning, and organizational design. The first section provides an introduction and information about the Scott Morton framework. Section two provides background information about the credit card industry and Capital One;s history. The third section analyzes why Capital One's advantage has been sustainable to date and includes discussion of strategic, economic, organizational and technical reasons. Section four analyzes the risks to Capital One's advantage in the future and includes discussion of technicalogical risks, organizational risks and customer risks. The final section includes a summary and some conclusions.<br>by Cynthia A. Ryan.<br>M.B.A.
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Ahlberg, Pilfold Sofia. "Managing knowledge for through life capability." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/21802.
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In 2005 the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) published a White Paper in which it detailed its Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) (UK MoD, 2005). The strategy involved a rapid transformation of UK defence towards a product-service, business-like paradigm through the adoption of Through Life Capability Management (TLCM). TLCM has since been succeeded by other initiatives. However, for organisations involved in the management of capability through life, the associated principles of operation as well as the challenges remain, including that of the management of knowledge. The confederated capability enterprise is a distributed knowledge system. Knowledge of the systems, for which a particular organisation has through-life management responsibility, may be distributed throughout an enterprise that comprises several commercial organisations as well as the customer. The bringing together of different components of capability and perspectives makes managing knowledge difficult. This is complicated further by the observation that in a decade one can expect a significant proportion of the manpower involved in a capability will have changed. Success in this type of environment requires a clear understanding of the value of particular knowledge within the organisation as well as effective knowledge management in the wider enterprise. Dstl and EPSRC have jointly funded this research which addresses management of knowledge for through life capability through modelling of the capability enterprise, a workshop on TLCM benefits and behaviours, a comparative case study at a commercial service company and the UK MoD including Dstl, and knowledge mapping within a specific exemplar capability. The results of the modelling illustrated the Systems of Systems (SoS) nature of the enterprise and the need to align capability and management processes across the enterprise. How well this can be achieved depends on the extent to which both the UK MoD and industry are willing to share, access and process information and knowledge. This would require trust between the individuals and organisations involved. The need for trust was emphasised in an international workshop where the participants discussed the behaviours that were required for the perceived benefits of TLCM to be realised. The workshop members highlighted trust in long term planning as industry seeks to manage skills and knowledge over time. ServiceCo provides communication and media services to customers globally. It comprises four customer-facing divisions and two operational units. The case which was based on interviews in one customer-facing and one operational unit revealed the following: • Focus on corporate values supports knowledge management behaviours across the organisation. • Succession planning is needed for all skills and knowledge that are critical or essential to the business. • Once the continual renewal of knowledge slows down and/or stops in an organisation, the knowledge is lost. The second case of the study was the Royal Navy Command Head Quarters and Dstl. Dstl is a trading fund that provides UK MoD and the wider UK government specialist Science & Technology services and operates and manages the Chief Scientific Advisor's research programme. The case study revealed: • Security regulations and considerations impact significantly on effective management of knowledge. • Knowledge retrieval can be 'hit and miss' as complicated filing structures and indexing practices are applied inconsistently, leading to individuals adopting a number of strategies to share knowledge. • Succession planning for people with rare skills is an issue that impacts business continuation. Comparison between the two cases showed that the two organisations experienced different problems but that the knowledge behaviours adopted by the individuals involved were essentially the same. This pointed to the need to address the issues associated with the management of knowledge as cultural and organisational in nature. Personal strategies to manage and share knowledge included individuals retaining copies of files on desktop hard drives and keeping paper copies in drawers; documents were emailed to ensure the intended audience would get it or be able to access it; and asking a colleague for advice on where to find out things. An important difference between knowledge management between the two organisations was that the UK MoD relied on processes due to the rapid change of personnel whereas the service company relied on personal relationships as people remained in the roles for longer. The knowledge mapping of 'moving personnel and materiel using vehicles' revealed that each Line of Development (LoDs) has its own constituent (LoDs) indicating the requirement to manage organisational capability in order to deliver capability to customers. It also illustrated all the active knowledge that is required in order for the capability to be delivered. The research main contributions are: • Theoretical models for exploring the use of knowledge in acquisition projects over time • Comparing two organisations at separate ends of the organisational spectrum and identifying common organisational factors that influence the management of knowledge for through life capability • Recognising that the enterprise is a capability SoS. In order to successfully delivery capability, knowledge about and within the components needs to be managed. Other findings include: • Management of knowledge for TLCM puts the focus on managing knowledge for future capability requirements rather than on retention of knowledge products, bringing in aspects such as business continuation planning and consequently impacting on the organisation's future development. • There is a strong relationship between knowledge conservation, human resource management and company policies. • Managing changes in design and/or function requires a good understanding of the different processes used within the various disciplines involved across the capability components and how they contribute to the final product and to each other. • An organisation's goals and the manner in which it organises itself to achieve them with regard to the management of knowledge does not appear linked. Instead, focus falls on the organisational architecture and the human resource polices that it implies. • 'Knowing' is an individual capability and also a social one; communities of practice and networking are necessary components of an organisation's knowledge base. • Knowing whom to ask and where to look is in a knowledge retrieval perspective nearly as important as knowing what to look for. • 'Individuals know while documents, processes and tools support knowing'. This emphasises the need for a close connection between humans and IT-based knowledge repositories. • The role of IT in knowledge management can either be to correlate knowledge in people's heads to relevant projects or to correlate individuals and knowledge in relevant projects depending on the key questions asked in the management of knowledge within the organisation. • The role of IT in determining issues related to the relevance and location of documentation differs depending of the organisation's reliance on face to face interactions between employees as a means for communicating this information. • The capability end user is in some instances hard to define. How the end user is defined determines where the SoS boundaries are defined. It is probably better to define the boundary as a broad fuzzy border. The indeterminacy implied by this view becomes a complexity issue for management of knowledge. • The impetus to manage knowledge and how is influenced legal requirements and by the organisation's relationships with its stakeholders including the extent it is subject to external scrutiny. Based on the research, a number of recommendations are made.
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Garcia, Alberto A. "Improving life cycle management through simulation and efficient design." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2008/Sept/08Sep%5FGarcia.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2008.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Lucas, Thomas W. "September 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 6, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90). Also available in print.
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McAlpine, Hamish. "Improving the management of informal engineering information through electronic logbooks." Thesis, University of Bath, 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519921.
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In modern organisations, the effective use of information and knowledge is a prerequisite for sustaining competitive advantage. To support this, considerable work has been undertaken by both academia and industry to improve the representation, organisation and access of information across and between organisations. This improved information and communication management has had a positive impact on business processes, improved decision making and – importantly – increased levels of innovation. However, one area that has received less attention is personal information such as logbooks, maintained by a majority of engineers. Many of these logbooks could contain significant amount of design information and knowledge which is not recorded elsewhere, such as design rationale and records of alternatives considered. Indeed, much of what we know about the work of historically important engineers and scientists such as Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) has come from their personal collections of notes. Despite this, logbooks are rarely formally managed, with the content usually only available to the authoring engineer. It is arguable that such potentially valuable information should be more easily accessible to the individual and wider organisation, where it could be of benefit as a personal productivity aid, a design record and also for intellectual property and audit/traceability purposes. It follows that there is a need to create improved methods for managing logbook content, which is the challenge that this research addresses. This research first seeks to establish the reasons for the stubborn persistence of paper logbooks as such a common feature of engineering work, despite almost every other aspect being undertaken in the digital domain. Various studies are undertaken, revealing that logbooks are used for a wide range of purposes, such as the critical role of ‘mediating’ between various information sources. The requirements arising from these studies are used together with a review of existing e-logbook technologies to produce a comprehensive requirement specification for an engineering electronic-logbook. At its core is a novel information management strategy based combination of templates to pre-structure entries and a lightweight information classification schema to structure the information. They key features of the specification are the ability for logbook information to be searched, shared and integrated with other information systems, whilst retaining important characteristics of paper logbooks (such as sketching support). The contributions of this thesis are the fundamental understanding of logbook use and content, together with a comprehensive specification for an engineering e-logbook to improve logbook information management for both the individual and wider organisation.
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Francomme, Bastien. "Improving Validation & Verification data management by deploying a life cycle management tool." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-285946.
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Managing data can be a challenge for large scale projects involving dozens of collaborators with different expertise. Data could be requirements, test procedures or product breakdown structures (PBS) for example. The deployment of an Application Life cycle Management (ALM) platform marks the beginning of the transition from the document-centric approach to new object-oriented methods such as Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to store data. This thesis evaluates the deployment of Polarion ALM tool to improve validation & verification (V&V) processes’ time and cost. An action research methodology has been implemented on the case study of aeronautical projects. A data management prototype has been developed. It consisted in (a) designing a database structure, (b) designing workflows and processes to handle data, (c) designing reporting views to compute, sort and display information, and (d) developing import/export templates depending on the pre-defined formats. An anonymous survey addressed to the prototype users showed that the respondents are eager to work with such a tool and predict time and cost saving on the long term for V&V processes. There is indeed no answer with a mean or median lower than 3 over 5 on the satisfaction scale, meaning that the participants globally agree that the new approach is at least equal or better than the previous methodologies. However, configuration management has been a challenging feature to implement and does not meet all users’ expectations. Using a more recent version of Polarion ALM tool could enable those needs to be fulfilled. The assessment has also shown that a successful ALM tool deployment relies on both the implemented data structure and the management of change (also called change management). Including the future users during tool development facilitates the adoption of the ALM platform. Thus, it necessitates strong interactions with the company collaborators through defined communication channels and a proper training program.<br>Hantering av data är en utmaning för storskaliga ingenjörsprojekt projekt som involverar dussintals medarbetare med olika expertis och arbetsuppgifter. Exempel på data kan vara kravspecifikationer, testförfaranden eller ett projekts uppdelning och struktur. Genom att implementera en Applikation för Livscykel Hantering ALH påbörjas en övergång från dokumentbaserad till objektorienterad metod för datalagring i modellbaserade ingenjörsprojekt. I denna avhandling bedöms införandet av Polarions ALH-verktyg för att minska tid och kostnad vid validering & verifiering (V&V). Metoden har aktivt testats och utvärderats på ett projekt i flygindustrin. En prototyp för datahantering har utvecklats med hjälp utav Polarions ramverk. Arbetet med prototypen delades upp i fyra delar, (a) utforma en databasstruktur, (b) bestämma arbetsflöden och processer för att samla och hantera data, (c) att utforma rapport-gränssnitt för beräkning, sortering och förmedling utav information och slutligen (d) skapa import-/exportmallar beroende på föregående definierade format. En anonym undersökning hos prototypanvändarna visade en önskan att arbeta med ett sådant datahanteringssystem och få en prognos över tid och kostnadsbesparingar på lång sikt för V&V-processer. Vid utvärderingen över hur tillfredsställda användarna var med verktyget så var samtliga median och medelvärden minst 3 på en skala av 5, där 5 motsvarar ”högsta” nöjdhetsgrad med verktyget. Testet gjordes för användare globalt och visar på att deltagarna minst tyckte verktyget var likvärdigt med systemet som fanns tidigare men oftast bättre. Hanteringen av olika konfigurationer har dock varit en utmanande funktionalitet att implementera och uppfyller inte alla användares förväntningar. Troligt skulle dessa krav uppfyllas genom att använda en nyare version av Polarion. Bedömningen har också visat att ett framgångsrikt införande av ALH är beroende av både den implementerade datastrukturen och hanteringen av förändringar. Att inkludera framtida användare under verktygsutveckling underlättar antagandet av ALH-plattformen. Därför krävs det starka interaktioner med företagets medarbetare genom definierade kommunikationskanaler och ett ordentligt träningsprogram.
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Amien, Ishtiaq. "Learning from risk : facilitating organisational learning through enterprise risk management." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86517.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Modern business environments are characterized by rapid changes and organizations that are
able to survive and to thrive in such environments must be able to adapt and respond to this
environmental change. Risk management is an activity that strives to continuously evaluate
and deal with changes to the environment. Organisational learning is the capability of
organizations to evaluate stimuli from the environment, to interpret the signals and to learn.
Organisational learning can thus be seen as the capability to adapt to environmental change.
First the thesis considers the concepts of risk and risk management by looking at its historical
development as a discipline. The concept is situated in a broader societal perspective of the
risk society in which the individual is expected to carry a much greater burden of risk, where
self-criticism is an inherent feature of life and risk management is essential for everyone.
Current risk management practice has seen the establishment of enterprise-wide risk
management as an extension of traditional risk management practice, which seeks to manage
all the risks facing the organization, but also to manage it in an integrated manner. Increased
regulation and policies, as a result of organizational failures such as Enron, has called for
organizations to better manage risk in order to establish more resilient organizations and to
protect shareholder value in an increasingly turbulent business environment. As a result we
see development of enterprise risk management frameworks and standards. Most of these
standards and frameworks recommend similar risk management activities, such as objective
and context setting; risk assessment (risk identification, analysis and evaluation); risk
treatment or response determination; and risk communication, monitoring and reporting. Next the thesis considers some of the defining features of organizational learning, such as the
differences between organizational learning and learning organizations, the individual and
organizational perspective on learning, and the role of the individual in organizational
learning. Selected organizational learning models are described that focus on scanning,
interpreting and learning, and the aspects that have an impact on organizational learning,
including organizational memory and mental models, organizational culture, uncertainty and
ambiguity, single and double loop learning, and tacit and explicit knowledge.
Lastly the thesis identifies points of convergence in theory and practice between enterprise
risk management and organizational learning. It is shown that principles and processes governing enterprise risk management activities and techniques can be utilized as
management activities to formalise and support organizational learning.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die moderne besigheidsomgewing word deur vinnige veranderinge gekenmerk en
organisasies wat in staat is om te oorleef in sulke omgewings moet noodwendig op
omgewingsverandering kan reageer en aanpas. Risiko-bestuur is 'n aktiwiteit wat probeer om
veranderinge in die omgewing deurlopend te monitor en daarop te reageer. Organisatoriese
leer is die vermoë van organisasies om stimuli uit die omgewing te kan opmerk, evalueer en
interpreteer ten einde te leer. Organisatoriese leer kan dus gesien word as die vermoë om by
omgewingsverandering aan te pas.
Die tesis oorweeg ten eerste die konsepte van risiko en risiko-bestuur deur na die historiese
ontwikkeling van die dissipline te kyk. Die konsep word gesitueer in 'n breër
samelewingsperspektief, naamlik die risiko samelewing wat gekenmerk word deur 'n groter
risiko las vir individue, waar self-kritiek 'n inherente kenmerk van die lewe is en risikobestuur
vir almal relevant word. Huidige risiko-bestuurspraktyk sluit die vestiging van ondernemingswye risiko-bestuur as 'n
verlengde van tradisionele risiko-bestuur, wat poog om alle risikos waaraan 'n onderneming
blootgestel is op 'n geïntegreerde manier te bestuur. Toenemende regulasie en strenger beleid,
as 'n gevolg van organisatoriese skandale soos Enron, vra van organisasies om risiko beter te
bestuur en sodoende meer volhoubare organisasies te bewerkstelling en aandeelhouers se
waarde te beskerm in turbulente besigheidsomgewings. Die resultaat was die ontwikkeling
van ondernemingsrisiko-bestuur raamwerke en standaarde. Die meeste van hierdie
raamwerke en standaarde stel soortgelyke risiko-bestuursaktiwiteite voor, soos doel- en
kontekstelling, risiko identifikasie, -analise, en –evaluasie, risiko behandeling of
responsbepaling, en risiko kommunikasie, -monitering, en –verslagdoening.
Die tesis oorweeg van die uitstaande kenmerke van organisatoriese leer, soos die verskil
tussen organisatoriese leer en die lerende organisasie, die individuele en organisatoriese
perspektiewe op leer, en die rol van die individu in organisatoriese leer. Geselekteerde
organisatoriese leer modelle word beskryf wat fokus op skandering, interpretasie en leer, en
die aspekte wat impak het op organisatoriese leer, insluitend organisatoriese geheue en
wêreldbeelde, organisasie kultuur, onsekerheid en dubbelsinnigheid, enkel- en dubbellusleer ,
en versweë en eksplisiete kennis. Laastens word sameloopspunte in die teorie en praktyk tussen ondernemingsrisiko-bestuur en
organisatoriese leer geïdentifiseer. Daar word getoon hoe beginsels en prosesse wat
ondernemingsrisiko-bestuur se aktiwiteite en tegnieke onderlê, ook gebruik kan word as
bestuurspraktyke om organisatoriese leer te formaliseer en te ondersteun.
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Ball, Marion J., and Judith V. Douglas, eds. Performance Improvement Through Information Management. Springer New York, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0519-7.
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David, Lisburn, ed. Reengineering information technology: Success through empowerment. Prentice Hall, 1994.
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Executive information systems: From proposal through implementation. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.
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Chen, Yu, and Julie Jupp. "BIM and Through-Life Information Management: A Systems Engineering Perspective." In Advances in Informatics and Computing in Civil and Construction Engineering. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00220-6_17.
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Opitz, Alexandra, and Christof Menzel. "Uncertainty Information in LCI-Databases and Its Propagation Through an LCA Model." In Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92237-9_8.
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Chen, Yu, and Julie Jupp. "Model-Based Systems Engineering and Through-Life Information Management in Complex Construction." In Product Lifecycle Management to Support Industry 4.0. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01614-2_8.
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Lucchesi, I., F. Lorussi, M. Bellizzi, et al. "Daily Life Self-management and Self-treatment of Musculoskeletal Disorders Through SHOULPHY." In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98551-0_27.
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Shahbazi, Sasha, Patricia van Loon, Martin Kurdve, and Mats Johansson. "Metal and Plastic Recycling Flows in a Circular Value Chain." In Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77127-0_18.
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AbstractMaterial efficiency in manufacturing is an enabler of circular economy and captures value in industry through decreasing the amount of material used to produce one unit of output, generating less waste per output and improving waste segregation and management. However, material types and fractions play an important role in successfulness of recycling initiatives. This study investigates two main fractions in automotive industry, namely, metal and plastic. For both material flows, information availability and standards and regulations are pivotal to increase segregation, optimize the collection and obtain the highest possible circulation rates with high quality of recyclables. This paper presents and compares the current information flows and standards and regulations of metals and plastics in the automotive value chain.
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Espinosa, Nieves, Nicholas Dodd, and Alejandro Villanueva. "Translating LCA Evidence into Performance-Based Policy Criteria for the Photovoltaic Product Group." In Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77127-0_22.
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AbstractLife cycle assessment has the potential to generate valuable information and knowledge for policy makers, as insights can be gained by applying LCA to the development of policy criteria. This potential has been used in the development of a number of EU policy instruments aimed at photovoltaic products, i.e. Ecodesign, Energy Labelling, the EU Ecolabel and Green Public Procurement. They are the regulatory and voluntary policy instruments for sustainable production and consumption at the European Commission. Each instrument has different market objectives; e.g. Ecodesign sets mandatory minimum requirements for products entering the EU market, while the EU Ecolabel is a voluntary instrument to differentiate the most sustainable choices. An eight-step approach based on the Ecodesign methodology including a systematic LCA review has been used with a focus on the information needs of the policy instruments and an interpretation of the results per component/substance. Through the identification of hotspots at the component level and at life cycle stages, it has been possible to translate them into criteria.
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Leite Cavalcanti, Welchy, Elli Moutsompegka, Konstantinos Tserpes, et al. "Integrating Extended Non-destructive Testing in the Life Cycle Management of Bonded Products—Some Perspectives." In Adhesive Bonding of Aircraft Composite Structures. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92810-4_6.
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AbstractIn this chapter, we outline some perspectives on embracing the datasets gathered using Extended Non-destructive Testing (ENDT) during manufacturing or repair process steps within the life cycle of bonded products. Ensuring that the ENDT data and metadata are FAIR, i.e. findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable, will support the relevant stakeholders in exploiting the contained material-related information far beyond a stop/go decision, while a shorter time-to-information will facilitate a prompter time-to-decision in process and product management. Exploiting the value of ENDT (meta)data will contribute to increased performance by integrating all defined, measured, analyzed and controlled aspects of material transformation across process and company boundaries. This will facilitate the optimization of manufacturing and repair operations, boosting their energy efficiency and productivity. In this regard, some aspects that are currently driving activities in the field of pre-process, in-process and post-process quality assessment will be addressed in the following. Furthermore, some requirements will be contemplated for harmonized and conjoint data transfer ranging from a bonded product’s beginning-of-life through its end-of-life, the customization of stand-alone or linked ENDT tools, and the implementation of sensor arrays and networks in joints, devices and structural parts to gather material-related data during a product’s middle-of-life application phase, thereby fostering structural health monitoring (SHM).
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Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet, and Rajkumar Roy. "Obsolescence Management." In Through-life Engineering Services. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12111-6_17.
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Miller, Gloria J. "Artificial Intelligence Project Success Factors—Beyond the Ethical Principles." In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98997-2_4.
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AbstractThe algorithms implemented through artificial intelligence (AI) and big data projects are used in life-and-death situations. Despite research that addresses varying aspects of moral decision-making based upon algorithms, the definition of project success is less clear. Nevertheless, researchers place the burden of responsibility for ethical decisions on the developers of AI systems. This study used a systematic literature review to identify five categories of AI project success factors in 17 groups related to moral decision-making with algorithms. It translates AI ethical principles into practical project deliverables and actions that underpin the success of AI projects. It considers success over time by investigating the development, usage, and consequences of moral decision-making by algorithmic systems. Moreover, the review reveals and defines AI success factors within the project management literature. Project managers and sponsors can use the results during project planning and execution.
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Van Grembergen, Wim, and Ronald Saull. "Information Technology Governance through the Balanced Scorecard." In Information Technology Evaluation Methods and Management. IGI Global, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-90-2.ch013.
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The balanced scorecard (BSC) initially developed by Kaplan and Norton, is a performance management system that enables businesses to drive strategies based on measurement and follow-up. In recent years, the BSC has been applied to information technology (IT). The IT BSC is becoming a popular tool with its concepts widely supported and dispersed by international consultant groups such as GartnerGroup, Renaissance Systems, Nolan Norton Institute, and others. Purcciafelli et al. (1999) predict that “by 2003, 60 percent of large enterprises and 30 percent of midsize enterprises will adopt a balanced set of metrics to guide business-oriented IT decisions (0.7 probability).” In this chapter, a generic IT BSC is proposed and its relationship with the business balanced scorecard (BU BSC) is established. It is shown how a cascade of balanced scorecards can support the IT governance process and its related business/IT alignment process. Further, the development and implementation of an IT BSC is discussed and an IT BSC Maturity Model is introduced. The chapter concludes with the findings of a real-life case.
Conference papers on the topic "Through Life Information Management"
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Waspodo, Bayu, Mr Zulfiandri, and Afifah Fajri. "Electronic Customer Relationship Management Information Systems of Sharia Life Insurance at AJB Bumiputera 1912." In International Conference on Science and Technology (ICOSAT 2017) - Promoting Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security, Energy, and Environment Through Science and Technology for Development. Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icosat-17.2018.36.
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Joshi, Alhad, Binu Panicker, and Shashidhar Lakshminarayana. "Product Performance Validation Life Cycle Management." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-86088.
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This paper will discuss critical issues and needs in the product performance validation domain. There is a primary need to manage a vast variety of CAE and Test data files that are used and generated throughout the product performance life cycle. The paper will discuss the different elements of managing such data including basic data structures, process and work flow requirements, product validation plans, and security and access privilege considerations. The goal of executing CAE Analysis or performing physical tests is to gather all product performance information. Evaluating all performance measurements specified for the product makes it possible to ensure that the product will behave as specified throughout its service life. The key here is that decision makers need access to all possible performance metrics for a product, an assembly or a component. There is a primary need to manage a vast variety of CAE and Test data files that are used and generated through the product performance life cycle. The paper addresses the different elements of managing such data including basic data structures, process and work flow requirements, product validation plans, security access privilege considerations and data standardization. This paper will also outline how the product validation management system architecture can support all the needs of this domain. The principal elements of the system include the supporting data structures that are mapped to a database management system and access methods using a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
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Brown, Travis E., Scott E. Bartholomew, Glen A. Dragon, Aaron C. Smykowski, Alvaro J. Rojas Arciniegas, and Marcos Esterman. "Challenges for Managing Component Obsolescence in Long Life Products Through the Product Development Lifecycle." In ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2011-48422.
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Producers of low volume, long life products must utilize the latest commercial, off the shelf (COTS) components in order to meet cutting edge technological needs. These COTS components often have a primary use in the high volume commercial markets (e.g. smart phones) which are characterized by short product lifecycles to satisfy consumer needs and remain competitive. Consequently, the two to three year lifecycles of these products tend to heavily influence the lifecycle of the components inside. Most tactical military products (as an example of low volume, long life products) have a very long design, production and support period that can often exceed ten years. Given the lifecycle mismatch between the products and components, an obsolescence management process is essential in order for a producer of low volume, long life products to effectively manage obsolescence in their product line. In this paper, the obsolescence management strategies are reviewed to identify best practices and recommendations that can improve a company’s ability to deal with obsolescence, sometimes called DMSMS (Diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages), though the terms are not strictly interchangeable. This is achieved not only through a comprehensive literature review but also through a series of case studies from different companies. These validate findings from literature and provide a realistic perspective on the challenge to manage obsolescence, during the product development lifecycle.
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Briggs, Ted L., Burt Gischner, Pete Lazo, Mike Olson, Jim Vicedomine, and Ken Wolsey. "Enabling Interoperability through the Ship Life Cycle." In SNAME Maritime Convention. SNAME, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/smc-2008-p10.
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Shipyards are increasingly responsible for the life cycle support of ships, including maintenance and logistics data over the life of the ship. Hence, it has become important for shipyards to efficiently integrate acquisition product model data with the lifecycle support product model data. The use of Integrated Data Environments (IDE) for Navy ship programs has fostered the integration of design, logistics, and production information for the ship. However, it has not been possible to exchange this integrated data set; rather, different data is typically transferred at different times often resulting in inconsistency. The Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) STEP standard (ISO 10303-239) for logistics data and life cycle support provides the capability to exchange logistics data linked back to design data. The standard was developed and has been implemented by the aerospace and defense industry. The ISE-6 project demonstrated the feasibility of using the PLCS standard for naval shipbuilding. This approach should also enable interoperability of life cycle data with other defense programs. The ISE-6 team mapped naval shipbuilding requirements into PLCS, while preserving compatibility with existing PLCS implementations. A unique feature was the automated mapping via template expansion and identification. The ISE-6 team conducted a demonstration of this capability, exchanging data between two Integrated Data Environments (IDE) and a Knowledge Management tool, which was used to modify and update the data for the receiving IDE. During the next phase of the project, the ISE-6 team will be investigating interoperability using the S1000D Specification for the procurement and production of technical publications.
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Fani, Hossein, Ebrahim Bagheri, and Weichang Du. "Temporally Like-minded User Community Identification through Neural Embeddings." In CIKM '17: ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3132847.3132955.
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Saravi, Mohammad, Yee Mey Goh, Linda Newnes, Antony Mileham, Karen Morton, and Duncan Beedall. "Modeling Uncertainty in Through-Life Costing at the Early Design Stages: I." In ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2011-47863.
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Estimating the Through Life Cost (TLC) of a product or service is one of the major challenges for industry. If the products involved are complex and are long-life this increases the challenge. Although industry attempts to estimate the TLC of such products as early as possible, lack of information makes it very difficult. To assist in this process uncertainty within the estimate and the estimation process is normally considered. The research presented in this paper proposes an approach for the consideration and management of the uncertainties in terms of the data and alternative scenarios. First the issue of how to deal with this uncertainty from the conceptual stage of design for different phases of product life cycle is explained. From this an approach for identifying and understanding the scenario uncertainty at each phase of the lifecycle is then presented. An industrial case study is then used to explain how to map the costing process for scenario uncertainty in different phases of product life cycle including; development, manufacturing, in-service and disposal. Finally, the next phase of the research activity is discussed.
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Jenkins, Peter, Trond Pytte, Harald Holden, et al. "Optimized Operations and Integrity Management Through Instrumentation." In ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2012-84088.
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During drilling and well intervention (DWI) operations today operating limits are normally given as limiting wave height, and sometimes wave periods. The resulting diagrams are often not directly comparable with weather information received on the rig and the final decisions are often based on subjective assessment of wave height and period. The paper will present how BP, on the newly developed Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea, through thorough planning in the engineering phase has implemented a system where operating limits are specified based on directly measurable parameters such as rig heave and upper and lower flexjoint angles. How weather forecasting can be translated to give the rig crew direct forecasting of the limiting vessel or riser responses (e.g. flexjoint angles or heave), will also be presented. It will be shown how this allows for improved operational planning and support from onshore. Over the last years requirements for oil companies to be able to document the structural integrity of their subsea assets, including wells, has increased. On the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) there has been a particular focus on fatigue loading in the wellhead structure, including the upper sections of casing and conductor, due to loads induced by the riser and BOP during DWI operations. There have been cases where the design fatigue life of a wellhead system limits the number of days one can perform operations with a rig on a given well. This in term affects future oil recovery rates as the well fatigue life may not be sufficient to allow for side step drilling or intervention work required to maintain an optimal production from the well. The paper continues to present how BP on the Skarv field, stores and utilizes the measured lower flexjoint response to track and document well integrity. It will be demonstrated how the return on investment of a drilled well can be improved by documenting actual fatigue loading from each operation on a well compared to conservative design calculations. BP has addressed the above issues in a way that is likely to set a new standard for drilling and intervention operations in the North Sea in the future. 4Subsea AS has provided the engineering and instrumentation services that formed the basis for this paper.
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Degeng, Made Duananda Kartika, Yulias Prihatmoko, and Nunung Nindigraha. "First Knowledge Management as a Line Learning Approach Through Humanistic Multimedia." In 1st International Conference on Information Technology and Education (ICITE 2020). Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.299.
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Rintamaa, Rauno, Irina Aho-Mantila, and Nigel Taylor. "NULIFE: European Network Dedicated to Nuclear Plant Life Management." In ASME 2007 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2007-26067.
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The European Network of Excellence NULIFE (Nuclear Plant Life Prediction) has been launched with a clear focus on integrating safety-oriented research on materials, structures and systems and exploiting the results of this integration through the production of harmonised lifetime assessment methods. NULIFE will help provide a better common understanding of, and information on, the factors affecting the lifetime of nuclear power plants which, together with associated management methods, will help facilitate extensions to the safe and economic lifetime of existing nuclear power plants. In addition, NULIFE will help in the development of design criteria for future generations of nuclear power plant. Led by VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland), the five-year project has a total budget in excess of EUR 8 millions, with partners drawn from leading research institutions, technical support organisations, power companies and manufacturers throughout Europe.
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Seto, Mae L. "Platform Protection Through Acoustic Signature Management." In ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2006-13724.
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A naval ship's acoustic signature is known after a ranging but changes the longer it is in-service away from a range. The Ship Signatures Management System (SSMS) provides an organic real-time capability to predict their own signature and enough information to mitigate signature issues. SSMS provides the Commanding Officer with a tool to determine the ship's acoustic signature in order to evaluate the impact of his/her proposed actions on the ship's counter-detection range and sensor performance. In this manner, the ship's protection is enhanced through insightful and timely signature management. DRDC has upgraded the SSMS hardware to state-of-the-art components to increase the number of sensors, the fidelity of the logged data, the dynamic range, and the processing power. This paper discusses some of the advanced SSMS features developed like tonal detection and tracking, tonal association, and the diagnostics used to determine the cause of features in the acoustic signature.
Reports on the topic "Through Life Information Management"
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CORPS OF ENGINEERS WASHINGTON DC. Information Management: Life Cycle Management of Information Systems (LCMIS). Defense Technical Information Center, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada403464.
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Callaghan, Caitlin, Matthew Bigl, Brandon Booker, et al. Energy Atlas—mapping energy-related data for DoD lands in Alaska : Phase 1—assembling the data and designing the tool. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/42226.
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The U.S. Army is the largest Department of Defense (DoD) land user in Alaska, including remote areas only accessible by air, water, or wintertime ice roads. Understanding where energy resources and related infrastructure exist on and adjacent to DoD installations and training lands can help in-form Army decision-makers, especially in remote locations like Alaska. The Energy Atlas–Alaska provides a value-added resource to support decision-making for investments in infrastructure and diligent energy management, helping Army installations become more resilient and sustainable. The Energy Atlas–Alaska utilizes spatial information and provides a consistent GIS (geographic information system) framework to access and examine energy and related resource data such as energy resource potential, energy corridors, and environmental information. The database can be made accessible to DoD and its partners through an ArcGIS-based user interface that provides effective visualization and functionality to support analysis and to inform DoD decision-makers. The Energy Atlas–Alaska helps DoD account for energy in contingency planning, acquisition, and life-cycle requirements and ensures facilities can maintain operations in the face of disruption.
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Callaghan, Caitlin, Matthew Bigl, Brandon Booker, et al. Energy Atlas—mapping energy-related data for DoD lands in Alaska : Phase 1—assembling the data and designing the tool. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/42226.
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The U.S. Army is the largest Department of Defense (DoD) land user in Alaska, including remote areas only accessible by air, water, or wintertime ice roads. Understanding where energy resources and related infrastructure exist on and adjacent to DoD installations and training lands can help in-form Army decision-makers, especially in remote locations like Alaska. The Energy Atlas–Alaska provides a value-added resource to support decision-making for investments in infrastructure and diligent energy management, helping Army installations become more resilient and sustainable. The Energy Atlas–Alaska utilizes spatial information and provides a consistent GIS (geographic information system) framework to access and examine energy and related resource data such as energy resource potential, energy corridors, and environmental information. The database can be made accessible to DoD and its partners through an ArcGIS-based user interface that provides effective visualization and functionality to support analysis and to inform DoD decision-makers. The Energy Atlas–Alaska helps DoD account for energy in contingency planning, acquisition, and life-cycle requirements and ensures facilities can maintain operations in the face of disruption.
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Bigl, Matthew, Caitlin Callaghan, Brandon Booker, et al. Energy Atlas—mapping energy-related data for DoD lands in Alaska : Phase 2—data expansion and portal development. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/43062.
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As the largest Department of Defense (DoD) land user in Alaska, the U.S. Army oversees over 600,000 hectares of land, including remote areas accessible only by air, water, and winter ice roads. Spatial information related to the energy resources and infrastructure that exist on and adjacent to DoD installations can help inform decision makers when it comes to installation planning. The Energy Atlas−Alaska portal provides a secure value-added resource to support the decision-making process for energy management, investments in installation infrastructure, and improvements to energy resiliency and sustainability. The Energy Atlas–Alaska portal compiles spatial information and provides that information through a secure online portal to access and examine energy and related resource data such as energy resource potential, energy corridors, and environmental information. The information database is hosted on a secure Common Access Card-authenticated portal that is accessible to the DoD and its partners through the Army Geospatial Center’s Enterprise Portal. This Enterprise Portal provides effective visualization and functionality to support analysis and inform DoD decision makers. The Energy Atlas–Alaska portal helps the DoD account for energy in contingency planning, acquisition, and life-cycle requirements and ensures facilities can maintain operations in the face of disruption.
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Murray-Rust, D. H., and D. L. Vermillion. Improving irrigation management through better information: testing practical options in Indonesia. International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI), 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.5337/2013.033.
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GEORGETOWN UNIV WASHINGTON DC MEDICAL CENTER. Automated Information System (AIS) Life-Cycle Management (LCM) Process, Review and Milestone Approval Procedures. Defense Technical Information Center, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada385514.
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Guo, Xingzhou, Chi Tian, Jinwu Xiao, Yunfeng Chen, and Jiansong Zhang. Life Cycle Integration of Building Information Modeling in Infrastructure Projects. Purdue University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317356.
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Building Information Modeling (BIM) can provide solutions to many challenges of asset management, such as missing data, incompatible software, and an unclear business process. However, current implementation of BIM in infrastructure projects has only considers limited factors, such as technology application and digital information delivery, while issues of system compatibility and information needs are still missing. Different aspects of a business are interdependent and an incompatible development of various factors might result in different levels of BIM implementation or even project failure. Comprehensive research is needed to explore the key factors and challenges of BIM implementation in infrastructure projects. This study conducted interviews and surveys with key stakeholders of infrastructure projects to explore the challenges and potential solutions of BIM implementation. Interviews were conducted with 37 professionals and surveys were conducted with 102 professional stakeholders, including owners, designers, contractors, and software vendors. Four main factors, challenges, and potential solutions were identified from content analysis of the interviews and further validated by the surveys. These factors include process factor (when), technology factor (how), people factor (who), and information factor (what). Corresponding solutions are proposed to refine the current workflow and practices.
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Granetto, Paul J., Patricia A. Marsh, Addie M. Beima, et al. Information Technology Management: Report in Defense Business Management System Controls Placed in Operation and Tests of Operating Effectiveness for the Period October 1, 2004 through May 15, 2005. Defense Technical Information Center, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada437387.
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KellerLynn, Katie. Redwood National and State Parks: Geologic resources inventory report. National Park Service, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2287676.
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Comprehensive park management to fulfill the NPS mission requires an accurate inventory of the geologic features of a park unit, but Comprehensive park management to fulfill the NPS mission requires an accurate inventory of the geologic features of a park unit, but park managers may not have the needed information, geologic expertise, or means to complete such an undertaking; therefore, the Geologic Resources Inventory (GRI) provides information and resources to help park managers make decisions for visitor safety, planning and protection of infrastructure, and preservation of natural and cultural resources. Information in the GRI report may also be useful for interpretation. park managers may not have the needed information, geologic expertise, or means to complete such an undertaking; therefore, the Geologic Resources Inventory (GRI) provides information and resources to help park managers make decisions for visitor safety, planning and protection of infrastructure, and preservation of natural and cultural resources. Information in the GRI report may also be useful for interpretation. This report synthesizes discussions from a scoping meeting for Redwood National and State Parks (referred to as the “parks” throughout this report) held in 2004 and a follow-up conference call in 2019. Two GRI–compiled GIS data sets of the geology and geohazards of the parks are the principal deliverables of the GRI. The GRI GIS data are available on the GRI publications website http://go.nps.gov/gripubs and through the NPS Integrated Resource Management Applications (IRMA) portal https://irma.nps.gov/App/Portal/Home. Enter “GRI” as the search text and select a park from the unit list. Writing of this report was based on those data and the interpretations of the source map authors (see “GRI Products” and “Acknowledgements”). A geologic map poster illustrates the geology GRI GIS data set and serves as a primary figure for this GRI report. No poster was prepared for the geohazards GRI GIS data set. Additionally, figure 7 of this report illustrates the locations of the major geologic features in the parks. Unlike the poster, which is divided into a northern and southern portion to show detail while accommodating the parks’ length, figure 7 is a single-page, simplified map. The features labeled on figure 7 are discussed in the “Geologic History, Features, and Processes” chapter. To provide a context of geologic time, this report includes a geologic time scale (see "Geologic History, Features, and Processes"). The parks’ geologic story encompasses 200 million years, starting in the Jurassic Period. Following geologic practice, the time scale is set up like a stratigraphic column, with the oldest units at the bottom and the youngest units at the top. Organized in this manner, the geologic time scale table shows the relative ages of the rock units that underlie the parks and the unconsolidated deposits that lie at the surface. Reading the “Geologic Event” column in the table, from bottom to top, will provide a chronologic order of the parks’ geologic history. The time scale includes only the map units within the parks that also appear on the geologic map poster; that is, map units of the geohazards data are not included. Geology is a complex science with many specialized terms. This report provides definitions of geologic terms at first mention, typically in parentheses following the term. Geologic units in the GRI GIS data are referenced in this report using map unit symbols; for example, map unit KJfrc stands for the Cretaceous (K) and Jurassic (J) Franciscan Complex (f), Redwood Creek schist (rc), which underlies a portion of the Redwood Creek watershed (see “GRI Products”).
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García-Espinosa, J., and C. Soriano. Data management plan. Scipedia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23967/prodphd.2021.9.003.
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This document presents the deliverable D8.1 – the Data Management Plan (DMP) of work package 8 of the prodPhD project. It aims to present the plan for the management, generation, collection, security, preservation and sharing of data generated through the prodPhD project. The DMP is a key element for organizing the project’s data. It provides an analysis of the data, which will be collected, processed and published by the prodPhD consortium. The project embraces the initiatives of the European Commission to promote the open access to research data, aiming to improve and maximize access to and reuse of research data generated by Horizon 2020 projects. In this sense prodPhD will adhere to the Open Research Data Pilot (ORD Pilot) fostered by the European Commission, and this DMP will be developed following the standards of data storage, access and management. This plan will detail what data will be generated through the project, whether and how it will be made accessible for the verification and reuse and how it will be curated and preserved. In this context, the term data applies to the information generated during the different experimental campaigns carried out in the project, and specifically to the data, including associated metadata, to be used to validate the computational models and the technical solutions to be developed in the project. This document is the first version of the DMP and may be updated throughout the project, if significant changes (new data, changes in consortium policies, changes in consortium composition, etc.) arise.