Exploitable results An analysis tool to support strategic manufacturing decision making: The AMBITE tool The take-up and use of advanced manufacturing technology by an industrial company is directly related to its ability to quantify the likely impact of each technology on its business. Major investments must be seen to be compatible with company business goals. The advanced manufacturing business implementation tool for Europe (AMBITE) addresses these issues. A framework was developed which links a business model to a manufacturing strategy. This framework allows managers to decompose the business goals into specific manufacturing goals. A set of mechanisms was developed to capture and represent the company's understanding of the impacts of the technology and/or programme on its business. 3 prototype analysis tools were developed. These tools facilitate casual reasoning through the technology and programme models. A decision support mechanism which allows users to trace the impact of a technology or programme through the measures of manufacturing performance to the strategic performance indicators, was developed. A high quality user interface was developed. This allows senior managers to navigate through the technology and programme models whilst also providing the means to capture enterprise information from the users. The users interface provides a bridge between the various models and analysis tools for the user, who is typically a senior executive within the company. The AMBITE tool is intended to be used by senior management to support investment decision making. Method to support decision making using qualitative data The main objectives of this advanced manufacturing business implementation for Europe (AMBITE) project were as follows: to develop models of a specific programme and technology (semantic models of interconnect technology and concurrent engineering were developed and customised to reflect the reality within specific manufacturing companies); to develop a model that related the high level business objectives of a manufacturing enterprise to operational level measures of performance; to develop a set of analysis tools that allowed senior managers to understand the consequences of the strategic decisions they make for their companies. Three specific results were obtained, namely: a framework that allows the business goals of an enterprise to be translated into a set of operational level performance measures (these performance measures are related to the strategy of the company and are related to specific business processes within the enterprise); a set of semantic models for interconnect technology and concurrent engineering (these models contain detailed knowledge about a specific technology or programme and were customised to reflect specific industrial applications; the specific industrial information was provided by the project industrial endorsers); a set of three prototype analysis tools (these analysis tools provide a means for senior managers to assess the implications for their business of investing in a specific technology or programme). Wyszukiwanie danych OpenAIRE... Podczas wyszukiwania danych OpenAIRE wystąpił błąd Brak wyników
