Objetivo
The changing business and competitive environment requires firms to introduce new products more frequently and in shorter time. This also means that organisations have to be agile as well as responsive to the changing needs of customers. Therefore, for the design managers to operate effectively, it is absolutely essential that there is a continued availability of high quality information.
However, as a basic fact, information in product development is often incomplete, of low quality or inconsistent because the product is yet under construction. The underlying reasons for the resulting decisional problem are inherent within the concurrentness of the product development process: Marketing wants to delay decisions about product features until close to the product launch date in order to be able to react spontaneously to the latest customer needs. On the other hand, the design functions want to 'freeze' option choices as early as possible for better planning and co-ordination. Further, the effects of late changes to the product specification are difficult to estimate. This situation has imposed a considerable pressure on product design managers as their decision making capability is seriously impeded. Thus, they have a strong need for supporting means assisting them in reliable and accurate decision making.
The CODESCO project will react to this need by developing a communication and decision support environment aimed at helping project managers working in concurrent product development. The environment will comprise a practical methodology and a software system enabling and facilitating decision making in early development phases. Further, it will include communication support for ensuring the availability of information for the decision process and its follow-up processes.
The CODESCO decision module will use case based reasoning (CBR) technology to provide a simulation capability for what-if analysis. This will allow managers to assess the impact of product changes to the development process in terms of lead times, costs and product performances etc. The CODESCO communication module will be based on process models and workflow approaches supporting inter and intra organisational interaction with respect to decision making.
Since the objective of the CODESCO project is not to develop new engineering data or project management systems, but to provide decision support on basis of existing information, the overall system will be integrated with the industrial partners' operational systems. Further, it will adapt and configure, as far as possible, currently available technologies for the concurrent product development domain.
The CODESCO environment will be applied within pilot projects at the industrial partners for validation of the approach and increase of their productivity. In order to ensure an effective introduction and start-up, training material and usage guidelines for the CODESCO methodology and software system will be provided and end users trained carefully.
The CODESCO consortium consists of six partners from four European countries. Every member is uniquely placed to exploit the results of the CODESCO project to full extent from differing yet complementary perspective. The industrial users Black&Decker and Creda have been the trigger for the project. They are acting in a highly dynamic consumer market (power tools and domestic appliances) and are faced with the above problem situation. The software and consultancy companies Fordesi and IXI bring in their specific expertise in decision processes and software development. They will be assisted by BIBA and University of Nottingham as research organisations. While the role of the latter comprises the dissemination of the project results within publications, books and presentations, the involved software houses will commercialise the system for European market. Creda as an industrial partner is co-ordinator of the CODESCO project.
Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural. Véas: El vocabulario científico europeo..
- ciencias naturales informática y ciencias de la información software software de aplicación software de sistemas
- ciencias naturales informática y ciencias de la información software desarrollo de software
- ciencias sociales economía y empresa ciencia económica economía de la producción productividad
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