Enterprise Systems for Product Portfolio Design

这项拟议研究的目的是开发一个新的企业模式的设计，通过扩大传统的设计范围，包括考虑企业内的产品将被制造，经营和回收。该方法将回收/再制造企业模型与受动态变化的市场需求影响的产品组合设计模型相结合。数据挖掘技术将得到充分利用，以满足对真实的大量信息数据集的需要。将开发一个基于分解的设计优化模型，该模型集成了多代产品生命周期中的设计和企业建模。其结果将是一种设计方法，该方法将通过共享预测数据挖掘功能支持的平台，有效识别那些有潜力最大化企业效用的产品。如果成功，这项研究的结果将提供一种新的改进方法，通过使用网络基础设施将大规模、动态、定量信息分析和链接到产品设计过程。长期的社会效益包括回收目前在废弃产品中浪费的经济价值，减少对环境的影响和降低消费者的总成本。制造商将能够通过访问频繁更新的数据来实现具有成本效益的产品回收目标。在教育方面，将开发一套案例研究，供工程教育工作者使用。案例研究将以商学院通常采用的方式编写，学生从现实世界的经验中学习。这些案例研究将在技术和管理计划中进行测试后在网络上公开，这是工程学院，商学院和一组工业赞助商之间的合作努力。结果也将被纳入一个面向工程的工业赞助的高级设计课程。

The objective of this proposed research is to develop a new enterprise model for design, by expanding the scope of traditional design to include consideration of the enterprise within which the product will be manufactured, operated and recovered. The approach integrates a recycling/remanufacturing enterprise model with a product portfolio design model which is influenced by dynamically changing market demands. Data mining techniques will be fully exploited to satisfy the need for large data sets of information in real time. A decomposition-based design optimization model which integrates modeling of the design and the enterprise throughout the life cycle of products in multiple generations will be developed. The result will be a design methodology which will efficiently identify those products that have the potential of maximizing the enterprise utility by sharing platforms enabled by predictive data mining capabilities.If successful, the results of this research will offer a new and improved way of analyzing and linking large-scale, dynamic, quantitative information to the product design process through the use of cyberinfrastructure. Long term societal benefits include recovering the economic value that is currently wasted in discarded products, decreasing environmental impacts and decreasing total costs to consumers. Manufacturers will be able to achieve the goal of cost-effective product take-back with access to frequently updated data. On the education front, a set of case studies will be developed for use by engineering educators. The case studies will be written in the fashion typically employed by business schools where students learn from real-world experiences. These case studies will be publicly available on the web after being tested in the Technology and Management Program, a collaborative effort between the College of Engineering, the College of Business, and a set of industrial sponsors. Results will also be integrated into an engineering-oriented industrially sponsored senior design course.