Economic development is of utmost importance for any nation or locality, however, recognizing that natural resources are finite, such development must be associated to environment preservation. Most of the energy consumed in the world comes from the oil, coal and natural gas. These sources are limited and with forecast of exhaustion in the future, therefore, the search for alternative energy sources is of utmost importance. With this in mind, energy matrix that are able to substitute fossil fuels become a relevant world-wide issue. Brazil is the country with the largest biodiversity, which explains its wealth in oleaginous. However, it´s production is restricted to nutritional means, disregarding some species with high lipidic content. Biodiesel is a worthy alternative, being a renewable and biodegradable fuel. This research had the objective of developing a general descriptive model, having as base the IDEF0 methodology (Integration Definition Language for Function Modeling) and to propose a cooperative environment among the different actors of the biodiesel productive chain. The study had as base an IDEF0 modeling technique, with the purpose of understanding and describing the main processes involved in the biodiesel productive chain, aiming at suggestions of improvement in the relationship among the different actors of this chain, in order to optimize the management process. The results showed that the viability of long term biodiesel production depends on infrastructure, qualified man power, governmental rendering of services associated with production and governmental incentives. Faced with the reality presented in the research, a transition to free market was identified as a form of reducing costs of production and transportation for the producing companies. As well as the incentive to export, in order to lessen the excess of productive capacity not adequate to the demand. The auctions were created as a form of guaranteeing the commercialization of the biodiesel produced, however, with market more mature there´s a need to rethink these auctions. The IDEF0 Diagram for its simple and visual characteristic enabled the understanding of the function of each actor in the biodiesel productive chain and the identification of important elements, allowing suggestions of improvement in communication between the involved parts. For the agility and precision demanded nowadays, a computer system can be implanted, integrating the entire productive chain. For this, it is suggested in addition to IDEF0, the use of IDEF3, that describes the processes and its Inter-relations in a much more detailed form. / O desenvolvimento econômico é de suma importância para qualquer nação ou localidade, porém, através do reconhecimento de que os recursos naturais são finitos, este deve estar associado à preservação ambiental. A maior parte da energia consumida no mundo provém do petróleo, do carvão e do gás natural. Essas fontes são limitadas e com previsão de esgotamento no futuro, portanto, a busca por fontes alternativas de energia é de suma importância. Considerando-se esse cenário, matrizes energéticas que venham a substituir os combustíveis fósseis tornam-se tema relevante a nível mundial. O Brasil é o país de maior biodiversidade, o que explica sua riqueza em oleaginosas. Entretanto, restringe sua cultura para fins alimentícios, desprezando algumas espécies com alto rendimento lipídico. O biodiesel passa a ser uma alternativa por ser um combustível renovável e biodegradável. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo desenvolver um modelo geral descritivo, tendo como base a metodologia IDEF0 (Integration Definition Language for Function Modeling) e propor um ambiente colaborativo entre os diferentes atores da cadeia produtiva do biodiesel. O estudo teve como base a técnica de modelagem IDEF0, com a finalidade de compreensão e descrição dos principais processos envolvidos na cadeia produtiva do biodiesel, visando sugestões de melhoria no relacionamento entre os diferentes atores desta cadeia, a fim de otimizar o processo de gestão. Os resultados mostraram que a viabilidade da produção de biodiesel em longo prazo depende de infra-estrutura, mão-de-obra qualificada, prestação de serviços associados à produção e incentivos governamentais. Diante da realidade apresentada na pesquisa, identificou-se a transição para o livre mercado como uma forma de redução nos custos de produção e transporte para as empresas produtoras. E o incentivo a exportação, a fim de amenizar o excesso de capacidade produtiva, não correspondente à demanda. Os leilões foram criados como forma de garantir a comercialização do biodiesel produzido, porém, com o amadurecimento do mercado os mesmos devem ser repensados. O diagrama IDEF0 por sua característica simples e visual possibilitou a compreensão da função de cada ator da cadeia produtiva do biodiesel e a identificação de seus elementos relevantes, permitindo sugestões de melhoria na comunicação entre as partes envolvidas. Para a agilidade e precisão exigidas na atualidade, pode-se implantar um sistema informatizado que integre toda a cadeia produtiva. Para isso, sugere-se além do IDEF0, a utilização do IDEF3, que descreve os processos e suas inter-relações de forma mais detalhada.

¡@Business process doesn¡¦t change with technology or business objectives following with the change of environment outside enterprises. Hence, enterprises require business process improvement or BPR to improve the existing business processes. When enterprises demand business process improvement or BPR, they can¡¦t analyze and improve business process without business process modeling. Choosing an adequate tool form numerous business process modeling and analysis tools is an important work. Therefore, author chooses 4 mature tools, ARIS, IDEF, UML and INCOME to discuss. ¡@In my thesis, author enumerate the advantages and comment of each tool at first, then using a material requiring and purchasing to stock process as an example to prove the advantages. Then, Based on the 4 perspectives concluded by Curtis and Kellner, et al. to develop further factors under each perspective. Concluding the evaluating criteria under each factor to evaluate business process modeling tools. And to present each tools about business process modeling.

Submitted by Lucio Flore Maciel (floremaciel@gmail.com) on 2017-02-15T08:26:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Lucio Flore Maciel APLICAÇÃO DA SIMULAÇÃO A EVENTOS DISCRETOS NO BALANCEAMENTO DE LINHA DE MONTAGEM.pdf: 1899747 bytes, checksum: ce39bd6323b1cd070d845c8ce1d9a680 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2017-02-21T17:37:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 maciel_lf_me_guara.pdf: 1899747 bytes, checksum: ce39bd6323b1cd070d845c8ce1d9a680 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-21T17:37:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 maciel_lf_me_guara.pdf: 1899747 bytes, checksum: ce39bd6323b1cd070d845c8ce1d9a680 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-01 / O objetivo geral da pesquisa foi desenvolver um modelo de simulação a eventos discretos para ser aplicado ao balanceamento de uma linha de montagem de componentes numa empresa do setor automotivo, buscando aumentar a produtividade da linha e utilizando menores quantidades de insumos. Na situação estudada há muitos elementos com comportamento estocástico, que podem influenciar na produtividade da linha, além da diversidade de insumos que abastecem a montagem, o que torna o balanceamento da linha uma tarefa complexa e favorece o uso da Simulação como procedimento de solução. Na modelagem conceitual do problema estudado adotou-se o método IDEF-SIM e para a simulação foi utilizado o software ProModel®. Como resultados tem-se um modelo conceitual e implementado para uma linha de montagem que possibilitou informações interessantes sobre o problema, tais como: juntar funções de dois postos de trabalhos, eliminar excesso de movimentação e eliminar gargalos. / The overall objective of the research was to develop a simulation model discrete event to be applied to balancing an assembly line components in automotive company, seeking to increase line productivity and using lower amounts of inputs. In the situation studied for many elements with stochastic behavior, which may influence the productivity of the line beyond the range of products that supply assembly, which makes the balancing line a complex task and promotes the use of the simulation procedure as a solution. In conceptual modeling of the studied problem adopted the IDEF-SIM method and for the simulation we used the ProModel® software. As results has a conceptual model and implemented for an assembly line that has enabled interesting information about the problem, such as joining functions of two posts jobs, eliminate excess movement and eliminate bottlenecks.

Abstract The conception of government programs to be transferred in public services is the common key processes among the hierarchal government of Taiwan. This research chooses Kaohsiung City Government as the case study. By using the method of processes modeling IDEF0 (Function Modeling) of IDEF Integrated Definition for Function Modeling of manufacturing industry, the paper analyses the hierarchal structure of the case. By adopting the concept of functional process of IDEF3 (Process Description Capture), it describes the structures of various hierarchies and processes.By using business process concepts of organization view, function view and control view of ARIS (Architecture of Integrated Information System) ¡Athe paper describes the process components. The research¡¦s structured concept by method of processes modeling IDEF and ARIS, as well as the expression in chart and diagram language to reveal the difficult points of problems, integrate every communication views of cross professionals. Having made deep interviews with the critical persons of every case processes, the paper come to understand the problems while practicing the integrated processes of ¡§medium and long-term programs¡¨ , ¡§annual preliminary programs ¡¨ ,¡§annual administrative outlines and programs¡¨ , ¡§annual budget¡¨ , ¡§annual implement and evaluation of programs¡¨ , ¡§performance assessment,¡¨ etc. Referring to the e-government and network government of United States and Singapore, adopting their actions and strategic concepts, meeting the environmental context and the new competition standards --- ¡§time¡¨ and ¡§knowledge¡¨, the case of Kaohsiung City Government can be transferred its weaked structure to competitive superiorities. This research investigates the space and direction for local governments of key process reengineering ,and be transferred in related factors and structural functions of process reengineering. This is a basic research for local governments reengineering of Taiwan.

Today, worldwide business communities are in the era of the Supply Chains. A Supply Chain is a collection of several independent enterprises that partner together to achieve specific goals. These enterprises may plan, source, produce, deliver, or transport materials to satisfy an immediate or projected market demand, and may provide the after sales support, warranty services, and returns. Each enterprise in the Supply Chain has roles and elements. The roles include supplier, customer, or carrier and the elements include functional units, processes, information, information resources, materials, objects, decisions, practices, and performance measures. Each enterprise, individually, manages these elements in addition to their flows, their interdependencies, and their complex interactions. Since a Supply Chain brings several enterprises together to complement each other to achieve a unified goal, the elements in each enterprise have to complement each other and have to be managed together as one unit to achieve the unified goal efficiently. Moreover, since there are a large number of elements to be defined and managed in a single enterprise, then the number of elements to be defined and managed when considering the whole Supply Chain is massive. The supply chain community is using the Supply Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR model) to define their supply chains. However, the SCOR model methodology is limited in defining the supply chain. The SCOR model defines the supply chain in terms of processes, performance metrics, and best practices. In fact, the supply chain community, SCOR users in particular, exerts massive effort to render an adequate supply chain definition that includes the other elements besides the elements covered in the SCOR model. Also, the SCOR model is delivered to the user in a document, which puts a tremendous burden on the user to use the model and makes it difficult to share the definition within the enterprise or across the supply chain. This research is directed towards overcoming the limitations and shortcomings of the current supply chain definition methodology. This research proposes a methodology and a tool that will enable an automated and comprehensive definition of the Supply Chain at any level of details. The proposed comprehensive definition methodology captures all the constituent parts of the Supply Chain at four different levels which are, the supply chain level, the enterprise level, the elements level, and the interaction level. At the Supply Chain level, the various enterprises that constitute the supply chain are defined. At the enterprise level, the enterprise elements are identified. At the enterprises' elements level, each element in the enterprise is explicitly defined. At the interaction level, the flows, interdependence, and interactions that exist between and within the other three levels are identified and defined. The methodology utilized several modeling techniques to generate generic explicit views and models that represents the four levels. The developed views and models were transformed to a series of questions and answers, where the questions correspond to what a view provides and the answers are the knowledge captured and generated from the view. The questions and answers were integrated to render a generic multi-view of the supply chain. The methodology and the multi-view were implemented in an ontology-based tool. The ontology includes sets of generic supply chain ontological components that represent the supply chain elements and a set of automated procedures that can be utilized to define a specific supply chain. A specific supply chain can be defined by re-using the generic components and customizing them to the supply chain specifics. The ontology-based tool was developed to function in the supply chain dynamic, information intensive, geographically dispersed, and heterogeneous environment. To that end, the tool was developed to be generic, sharable, automated, customizable, extensible, and scalable.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of different types of description of cyberphysical systems. It also concerns a description of the selected method that meets most of the current requirements for CPS design. In the practical part, attention is paid to the elaboration of an example for the specification of a selected cyberphysical system.

This dissertation presents the results of a Ph.D. research entitled as methodology development for SME based virtual enterprises. The research addresses the preparation and set up of virtual enterprises and enterprise networks. A virtual enterprise (VE) can be perceived as a customer solution delivery system created by a temporary and re-configurable information and communications technology (ICT) enabled aggregation of competencies. The main achievements of the research include: &amp / #8226 / Clarification and definition of the concept for virtual enterprises and enterprise networks including preparation of these. o A fast and efficient setup of virtual enterprises can be enabled through the establishment of an enterprise network in which an appropriate type and degree of work preparation can be established prior to the set up of virtual enterprises. &amp / #8226 / Development of a framework and a reference architecture for virtual enterprises named as Structured Methodology and ICT Reference Architecture respectively. o Structured Methodology structures the body of knowledge related to preparation, set up and operation of virtual enterprises and enterprise networks. o ICT reference architecture consists of three levels with seven layers to portray in a diagrammatic fashion how different enterprises may exchange and use information between their respective organizations&amp / #8217 / specific proprietary systems and a central server. &amp / #8226 / Development of a methodology for virtual enterprise named as Virtual Enterprise Methodology (VEM) o VEM consists of a set of guidelines, which systematically describes activities that enterprises should consider in relation to set up and preparation of own enterprise networks with the aim to set up virtual enterprises. &amp / #8226 / Testing and validation of the developed VEM with the realization of a virtual case study and establishment of a validation platform respectively. o Virtual case study demonstrates the application of the developed VE methodology with the illustration of the key activities related to setting up breeding environment, setting up &amp / operating VE and dissolution of VE. o The findings in the research can be validated through the various activities as meetings, conferences, presentations and publication of journals.

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隨著環境的快速變革以及資訊科技的突飛猛進，一般民眾對政府單位服務水準的要求日趨嚴苛，傳統的作業流程在作業品質以及反應時間上似乎漸漸無法滿足於民眾，是故流程再造的風潮日益蔓延於政府單位當中。而在資訊科技(以下簡稱IT)被日益重視的當今，在流程再造裡亦扮演越來越重要的角色，IT從之前支援性角色，乃至今日已漸漸成為主導推動再造之關鍵因素。透過探究IT的應用性，可以達成大刀闊斧功效的全面性變革，而IT可如何、於何發揮再造效益，則可透過流程模型清楚地描繪出。 因此，本研究提出一以流程模型與IT為主軸之流程再造方法，並舉一政府事業單位之個案為例，透過IDEF0、IDEF3等流程模型勾勒現有模型，再透過深入探討現有流程之斷層與缺口，進而思索IT可發揮之處，從而進行全面而又具流程合理性之流程調整。此外，並透過流程圖學之基礎，來推論BPR前後之相對效益，以做為落實推動流程再造時之量化效益參考。最後，期此方法能讓欲進行流程再造者有參考依循之對象，以解決許多人在茫茫再造學說之中而不知如何進行之窘境。

Sustainable performance of buildings has become a major concern among construction industry professionals. However, sustainability considerations are often treated as an add-on to building design, following ad hoc processes for their implementation. As a result, the most common problem to achieve a sustainable building outcome is the absence of the right information at the right time to make critical decisions. For design team members to appreciate the requirements of multidisciplinary collaboration, there is a need for transparency and a shared understanding of the process. The aim of this study is to investigate, model, and facilitate the early stages of Building Information Modelling (BIM) enabled Sustainable Building Design (SBD) by formalising the ad hoc working relationships of the best practices in order to standardise the optimal collaboration workflows. Thus, this research strives to improve BIM maturity level for SBD, assisting in the transition from ad hoc to defined , and then, to managed . For this purpose, this study has adopted an abductive research approach (iterative process of induction and deduction) for theory building and testing. Four (4) stages of data collection have been conducted, which have resulted in a total of 32 semi-structured interviews with industry experts from 17 organisations. Fourteen (14) best practice case studies have been identified, and 20 incidents narratives have been collected applying the Critical Decision Method (CMD) to examine roles and responsibilities, resources, information exchanges, interdependencies, timing and sequence of events, and critical decisions. As a result, the research has classified the critical components of SBD into a framework utilising content and thematic analyses. These have included the definition of roles and competencies that are essential for SBD along with the existing opportunities, challenges, and limitations. Then, Schedules of Services for SBD have been developed for the following stages of the RIBA Plan of Work 2013: stage 0 (Strategic Definition), stage 1 (Preparation and Brief), and stage 2 (Concept Design). The abovementioned SBD components have been coordinated explicitly into a systematic process, which follows Concurrent Engineering (CE) principles utilising Integrated DEFinition (IDEF) structured diagramming techniques (IDEF0 and IDEF3). The results have identified the key players roles and responsibilities, tasks (BIM Uses), BIM-based deliverables, and critical decision points for SBD. Furthermore, Green BIM Box (GBB) workflow management prototype tool has been developed to analyse communication and delivery of BIM-enabled SBD in a centralised system (Common Data Environment, CDE). GBB s system architecture for SBD process automation is demonstrated through Use Case Scenarios utilising the OMG UML (Object Management Group s Unified Modelling Language) notation. The proposed solution facilitates the implementation of BIM, Information Communication Technology (ICT), and Building Performance Analysis (BPA) software to realise the benefits of combining distributed teams expertise holistically into a common process. Finally, the research outcomes have been validated through academic and industrial reviews that have led to the refinement of the IDEF process model and framework. It has been found that collaborative patterns are repeatable for a variety of different non-domestic building types such as education, healthcare, and offices. Therefore, the research findings support the idea that a detailed process, which follows specified communication patterns, can assist in achieving sustainability targets efficiently in terms of time, cost, and effort.