Decentralized Engineering Decision Models to Support Product Transitions

支持产品转型的分散式工程决策模型

基本信息

批准号：
1824744
负责人：
Osman Ozaltin
金额：
$ 61.89万
依托单位：
North Carolina State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-01 至 2023-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1824744&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Decentralized Engineering Decision Models Support

项目摘要

This award will contribute to the national prosperity by providing rigorous methods to improve the management of product transitions, the introduction of new products to replace older models, in high-technology manufacturing industries. Because of the rapid pace of technological development and strong competition among firms, product life cycles in high-tech industries have shortened significantly in recent years. New product development and testing, critical to the firm's success, must be executed while continuing to produce a range of products unaffected by the transition. Effective management of both new and existing products requires close coordination between manufacturing, engineering, and product development organizations, which are autonomous organizational units. In contrast to current product transitions, which are often managed without considering the operational issues requiring coordination of multiple organizations, this project provides a novel approach to collaborative risk management by negotiating resource allocation between units, which will both reduce the cost and shorten the length of product transitions. An integral part of the award is the development of a simulation-based computer game that will give hands-on experience of solving this problem and its crucial importance in today's high tech economy. The research is contextualized within the semiconductor industry, which is of central importance to the nation's long-term economic success.This award will develop decentralized decision making tools to understand incentive structures and coordination mechanisms to enable efficient collaborative solutions for the management of product transitions. The research draws on the tools of algorithmic game theory and combinatorial auctions to develop and analyze decentralized decision making methods to support the firm's long-term viability. This requires computing Nash equilibria for a multiperiod problem involving both discrete and continuous decisions. This approach will be complemented by a bilevel programming approach in which corporate management plays the role of the leader allocating resources to the other units. The project will extend the bilevel programming framework to consider interactions among the followers, providing novel formulations and solution approaches. Once satisfactory solutions have been obtained for a deterministic environment, these will be used to explore alternative strategies for hedging against uncertainties.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项将通过提供严格的方法来改善产品过渡管理的管理，引入新产品以取代较旧模型，从而为国家繁荣做出贡献。由于技术发展的速度和企业之间的强烈竞争，近年来，高科技行业的产品生命周期大大缩短了。在继续生产不受过渡影响的一系列产品的同时，必须执行新的产品开发和测试，这对公司的成功至关重要。有效管理新产品和现有产品，需要在制造，工程和产品开发组织之间进行密切的协调，这些组织是自主组织单位。与当前的产品过渡相反，这些项目通常是在不考虑需要多个组织协调的运营问题的情况下进行管理的，该项目通过谈判单位之间的资源分配提供了一种新颖的合作风险管理方法，这既可以降低成本又缩短产品过渡的时间。该奖项的一个不可或缺的一部分是开发基于模拟的计算机游戏，该游戏将提供解决此问题及其在当今高科技经济中的至关重要的经验。这项研究在半导体行业中是有背景而言的，这对于国家的长期经济成功至关重要。该奖项将开发分散的决策工具，以了解激励结构和协调机制，以实现有效的协作解决方案来管理产品过渡。该研究借鉴了算法游戏理论和组合拍卖的工具，以开发和分析分散的决策方法，以支持公司的长期生存能力。这需要计算纳什均衡，以解决涉及离散和持续决策的多项式问题。这种方法将通过一种双重编程方法来补充，在这种方法中，公司管理人员在其中将资源分配给其他单位的角色。该项目将扩展双重编程框架，以考虑关注者之间的相互作用，从而提供新颖的配方和解决方案方法。一旦为确定性环境获得了令人满意的解决方案，这些解决方案将被用来探索对冲不确定性的替代策略。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评估标准通过评估来支持的。