Zugl.: Bochum, Univ., Diss., 2007

Zugl.: Bremen, Univ., Diss., 2007

Univ., Diss.--St. Gallen, 2002.

Thesis (M. S.)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Committee Chair: Lars Spuybroek; Committee Member: Franca Trubiano; Committee Member: Tristan Al Haddad.

Bachelor-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2008.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar um Modelo de Escritório de Gerenciamento de Projetos, que viabilize o atendimento diferenciado a clientes. Tendo em vista a expansão e a globalização do mercado associada à crescente competitividade das empresas buscando atender os clientes, cada vez mais exigentes na qualidade dos produtos somados a seus interesses individualizados, surgiu a necessidade de adequar a produção para a personalização do consumidor. Essa modelagem foi estruturada a partir de um Estudo de Caso mediante uma pesquisa exploratória e buscou como fonte de referência a Bematech Soluções em Automação Comercial, empresa de grande porte do segmente eletroeletrônico, que se apresentou apropriada para o estudo face ao seu estágio de crescimento e à intenção de ampliar sua presença no mercado. Atualmente suas atividades comerciais estão voltadas para o atendimento de pequenas e médias empresas varejistas, mediante uma rede de revendas distribuídas regionalmente. Este procedimento, que é eficiente para o segmento, é um limitador para a ampliação de mercado desejado pela empresa. Em planejamentos realizados pela empresa definiu-se ampliar o espectro de clientes, buscando atender os grandes varejos com o oferecimento de soluções customizadas, a partir de uma linha produzida em massa. Esta pesquisa, portanto, apresenta como estruturar uma nova Unidade de Negócios fundamentada nos conhecimentos sobre um Escritório de Gerenciamento de Projetos, como elemento de proporcionar a Customização de Soluções para atendimento exclusivo a cada cliente. / This work has objective a Model Project Management Office that makes possible the differential attendance to customers. In view of the expansion and globalization of the market, associated to the competitive of the companies seeking to attend the customers, more and more demanding at the qualities of products added to their individualized interests, came up the necessity to fit the production for the consumers personalization. This modeling was structured from a Case Study by an exploratory research and attempted source the Bematech Solution in Commercial Automation, enterprise of great importance at the hardware segments, that presented itself proper for study, according to its period of growth and the purpose to extend its presence in the market. Today, its commercial activities are turned toward the attendance of small and average retail companies, through a net of resale distribution regionally. This procedure, that is efficient for the segment, limits the magnifying of the market required by the company. In planning carried out by the company, it was defined the specter of consumers, trying to attend the great retails with the proposing of customized solutions, from a mass producing line of products. This research, therefore, presents how to frame a new Business Unit based on the knowledge on an office of Project Management Office (PMO), as element to provide the Customization of Solutions for each customers exclusive attendance.

A manutenção de software é reconhecida como uma atividade bastante importante, senão indispensável, da Engenharia de Software. As alterações realizadas no software durante a sua manutenção, se não forem realizadas de forma sistematizada, acabam por descaracterizar e prejudicar a manutenibilidade desse software. Nesse contexto, a customização de sistemas de software, ou seja, a manutenção adaptativa de sistemas de software para domínios e ambientes específicos, vem sendo largamente adotada pela indústria. Em outra perspectiva, a Programação Orientada a Aspectos (POA) foi proposta como uma abordagem para melhorar a separação de interesses em sistemas de software. Em paralelo, tem-se Componentes de Software que enfatizam o projeto e a construção de sistemas de software visando o aumento do reúso e da produtividade. Ainda nessa linha, algumas propostas têm sido feitas com o objetivo de combinar os conceitos de componentes de software com o paradigma de orientação a aspectos, ou seja, a criação de componentes que utilizem aspectos como interface para entrecortar outros sistemas. Vale destacar que na indústria, a manutenção de software, incluindo a customização, não tem sido realizada de maneira sistemática o que contribui para a degradação da qualidade dos sistemas. Portanto, a principal contribuição deste trabalho é propor um processo para customização de sistemas de software utilizando componentes orientados a aspectos visando a diminuição do acoplamento na adaptação de sistemas de software e, consequentemente, melhorando sua manutenibilidade. Além disso, um estudo de caso foi conduzido no qual a abordagem proposta foi utilizada na customização de um sistema de software comercial de grande porte. Os resultados desse estudo de caso foram analisados qualitativamente e contribuíram para avaliar a aplicabilidade da abordagem proposta neste trabalho como um processo sistematizado de customização de sistemas de software utilizando componentes orientados a aspectos / The software maintenance is recognized as a very important activity, if not indispensable, of Software Engineering. The changes made on the software during its maintenance, if not performed in a systematic way, eventually disfigure and damage the maintainability of this software. In this context, the customization of software systems, in other words, the adaptive maintenance of software systems for domains and for specific environments, has been widely adopted by industry. In another perspective, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) has been proposed as an approach to improve separation of concerns in software systems. In parallel, there is Software Components that emphasize design and construction of software systems in order to increase reuse and productivity. Also in this subject, some proposals have been made with the objective to combine the concepts of software components with the aspect oriented paradigm, in other words, the creation of components that use aspects as interface to crosscut other systems. It is important to highlight that in the industry, software maintenance, including customization, has not been performed on a systematic way which contributes to the software quality degradation. Therefore, the main contribution of this work is to propose a process for customization of software systems using aspect oriented components aiming the reduction of coupling on software systems adaptation and thus improving its maintainability. Furthermore, a case study was conducted wherein the proposed approach was used to customize a large scale software system. The results of this case study were analyzed qualitatively and have contributed to evaluate the applicability of the proposed approach in this work as a systematic process to customize software systems using aspect-oriented components

Paper is one of the elements used in our everyday life under its different forms; from the office use, newspapers, books, post-it, different packaging… it is ever present. The mass production of paper is made possible today by the industrial paper mill. One of a key component affecting the quality of the paper is the forming fabric used as a filter in the preliminary stages of paper manufacturing. The TCR Transcent is such machine used to produce the forming fabric and TEXO-AB assures two third of the world production of the machine. Given the ever increasing customer demand, machine variants and technological need, it is imperial for TEXO-AB to implement a time-efficient and responsive design system. This is made possible by shifting from traditional design to a logic based parametric design. The TCR loom model provided by the method followed in this report allows among other benefit a reduction of up to 28% in the time taken to design a new machine while still attending to the customization element providing a unique machine for every customer. The use of the model will afford designers more time to focus on other essential tasks, schemes and strive toward continuous improvement in terms of quality and technology.

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Current housing trends point to an increasing interest from homebuyers to demand houses that reflect their personal and unique styles, and which are individually configured according to these needs (NAHB, 2004). These homebuyers in turn are unwilling to settle for standard models that sacrifice what they really want in a home. At the same time this creates pressure on builders who are reluctant to sacrifice production efficiencies by deviating from standard models. Such customization desired by demanding customers can disrupt the entire estimating, production, delivery and management process, making it even more difficult to manage homebuilding efficiently and effectively. The question faced by homebuilders in this conditions is, how to manage this trade-off and deliver exactly what homebuyers want, at reasonable prices and lead times with minimal disruptions in efficiencies. Mass Customization (MC) is an emerging production paradigm that seeks to manage the trade-offs between product variety and mass efficiency, while fulfilling individual customer requirements. The general purpose of this research is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of housing production through the implementation of mass customization strategies. More specifically, this research focuses on the study of the production system through the application of lean production principles, as an approach to enable mass customization. This study first characterizes how much product choice is currently being offered by U.S. homebuilders and what is the impact of customization on production efficiency; and then focuses on the evaluation of the relationships between mass customization and lean production principles. Results revealed that homebuilders offering increased product choice are likely to suffer poorer labor productivity, greater inventory, higher production costs, more quality issues, less satisfied homebuyers, and lower space efficiency. In general, operational performance deteriorated with an increase in product choice. Therefore, industrialized housing manufacturers have not reached the ideal of mass customization and are paying a price for offering more choices to their customers. Homebuilders could mitigate these challenges by using lean concepts. In general, case studies showed that product choice does not necessarily make the implementation of lean concepts more difficult. Some lean concepts, like workload balancing and standardizing tasks, clearly facilitated the handling of product choice. Other lean concepts, like creating a continuous process flow, can be made to work well, even with increased choice. Case study results suggested that good concepts for lean (e.g., efficient continuous flow, effective pull system, workload leveling, defect-free processes, standard tasks, good visual controls, and reliable technology) were also good concepts for (or easily accommodated) handling a range of product choice.