Bakgrunden till rapporten var att det företag som medverkat i studien ville utveckla ett grundmönster för damkappor. Syftet med arbetet blev därför att utarbeta ett grundmönster med två ärmtyper som graderas mellan storlek 32-50, samt konstruera en kappmodell från samma grund. Utöver detta skulle även detaljkonstruktioner och specifikationer utformas. Frågeställningarna som styrde arbetet kretsade därför kring hur man på bästa sätt tar fram detta.All konstruktion utfördes i Lectra´s Modaris. För att ta fram grundmönstret jämfördes två arbetssätt för att sedan välja en av de grunder som konstruerats. Efter detta gjordes nödvändiga ändringar utifrån avprovningar. Kappmodellen utarbetades genom kompletterande detaljkonstruktioner utifrån grundmönstret. Även de fristående detaljkonstruktionerna utformades på samma sätt. Specifikationerna togs fram i företagets PDM-system Quest PDM.Passformen hos grundmönstret blev god, ett mindre balansfel kan dock finnas kvar. Kappmodellen som syddes upp av produktionskontoret i Litauen motsvarade kraven. Ståkragen bland detaljkonstruktionerna kunde förbättrats, annars uppfyller även dessa konstruktioner kraven.Specifikationerna från Quest PDM visade krav och instruktioner tydligt. Dock var det problematiskt att använda flera olika ritprogram inom systemet.The background for this report was that the company cooperating with me wanted to develop a basic pattern for women´s coats. The purpose of this study was to construct a basic pattern with two types of sleeves to be graded in the sizes 32-50 and use the basic pattern to create a women´s coat. Beside this, coat details and product specifications should be produced.Lectra´s CAD-program Modaris is used for pattern construction. To create the basic pattern two different construction methods was used, and one of them chosen for further developing. The coat was developed from the basic pattern through additional constructions. The separate detail construktions was created be the same method. The companys PDM system Quest PDM was used to form the product specifications.The fit of the basic pattern was good, a minor balance fault might still remain. The coat sewn by the companys production office in Lithuenia met the requirements. The standing straight collar could be further improved, the other detail constructions lived up to the standars.The product specifications from Quest PDM showed the instructions and demands clearly. Unfortunately there was a problem using different illustration software within the system. / Program: Designteknikerutbildningen

Depuis quelques années, l'interopérabilité des applications est devenue le leitmotiv des développeurs et concepteurs en ingénierie système. Cette importance a donné lieu à d'innombrables travaux de recherche avec chacun une définition particulière plus au moins formelle de l'interopérabilité entre applications. La plupart des approches pour l'interopérabilité existant dans l'entreprise ont pour objectif principal l'ajustement et l'adaptation des types et structures de données nécessaire à la mise en œuvre de collaboration entre entreprises. Dans le domaine des entreprises manufacturières, le produit est une composante centrale. Des travaux scientifiques proposent des solutions pour la prise en compte des systèmes d'information issus des produits, tout au long de leur cycle de vie. Mais ces informations sont souvent non corrélées. La gestion des données de produit (PDM) est couramment mise en œuvre pour gérer toute l'information relative aux produits durant tout leur cycle de vie. La modélisation des processus de fabrication et de gestion est largement répandue et appliquée tant aux produits physiques qu'aux services. Cependant, ces modèles sont généralement des "îlots" indépendants ne tenant pas compte de la problématique d'interopérabilité des applications supportant ces modèles. L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier cette problématique d'interopérabilité appliquée aux applications utilisées dans l'entreprise manufacturière et de définir un modèle ontologique de la connaissance des entreprises relatives aux produits qu'elles fabriquent, sur la base des données techniques de produits, pour assurer l'interopérabilité des systèmes d'entreprise supports, basés sur un échange d'information centrée sur le produit. Le résultat attendu de ce travail de recherche concerne la formalisation d'une méthodologie d'identification des informations de gestion techniques des produits, sous la forme d'une ontologie, pour l'interopérabilité des applications d'entreprises manufacturières, sur la base des standards existants tels que l'ISO 10303 et l'IEC 62264.

Reliability worth analysis is an important tool for distribution systems planning and operations. The interruption cost model used in the analysis directly affects the accuracy of the reliability worth evaluation. In this dissertation, the reliability worth analysis was dealt with two interruption cost models including an average or aggregated model (AAM), and a probabilistic distribution model (PDM) in two phases. In the first phase, the dissertation presents a reliability cost model based AAM for distribution system planning. The reliability cost model has been derived as a linear function of line flows for evaluating the outages. The objective is to minimize the total cost including the outage cost, feeder resistive loss, and fixed investment cost. The Evolutionary Programming (EP) was used to solve the very complicated mixed-integer, highly non-linear, and non-differential problem. A real distribution network was modeled as the sample system for tests. There is also a higher opportunity to obtain the global optimum during the EP process. In the second phase, the interruption cost model PDM was proposed by using the radial basis function (RBF) neural network with orthogonal least-squares (OLS) learning method. The residential and industrial interruption costs in PDM were integrated by the proposed neural network technique. A Monte-Carlo time sequential simulation technique was adopted for worth assessment. The technique is tested by evaluating the reliability worth of a Taipower system for the installation of disconnected switches, lateral fuses, transformers and alternative supplies. The results show that the two cost models result in very different interruption costs, and PDM may be more realistic in modeling the system.

Dagens företagsklimat skapar ökad press på företag att minska sin tid till marknad för nya produkter, samtidigt som konstnader ska minskas och en hög produktkvalitet skall hållas. Ett resultat av detta är att tillverkningsföretag måste utveckla och producera produkter fortare, till en lägre kostnad, med ökande kvalité för att upprätthålla sin konkurrenskraft. Inom marknaden för informations- och kommunikationsteknik sker det snabba förändringar, detta göra att produktutvecklingen är allt mer viktig. Hanteringen av produktdata är en viktig aspekt av produktutvecklingen, men också en av de mest  utmanande.  Målet  med  denna  forskningsuppsats  är  att  undersöka  vilka  processer  inom industrialisering som används för att samla och hantera produktdata. Produktdata och hanteringen av den är en viktig del av industrialiseringsprocessen samt produktutvecklingsprocessen. PIM   (Product   Introduction   and   Maintenance)   RBS   (Radio   Base   Station)   Kista   är   en industrialiseringssite och har valts för denna fallstudie – då de representerar en ledande del av produktutvecklingen för utsedda produkter inom Ericsson som är ett världsledande företag inom informations-och kommunikationstekniks industrin. Denna forskning har utförst i linje med det valda fokusområdet att undersöka, beskriva och analysera de viktigaste metoderna som används inom PIM RBS Kista för att samla in, lagra och använda produktdata under produktutvecklingen i industrialiseringsprocessen.   Syftet   med   forskningen   är   att   bidra   till   forskningsområdet produktdatahantering. Fokus har legat inom Operations, där nya produkter realiseras under olika aktiviteter och från vilken produktdata är det viktigaste resultatet. De  arbetsmetoder  som  har  identifieras  under  fallstudien  diskuteras  och  skapar  insikt  hur produktdatahantering  används  under  förverkligandet  av  nya  produkter  –  med  koppling  till produktionsverkstadsgolvet. Denna forskingsuppsats diskuterar även de huvudsakliga implikationera relaterat till produktdatahantering inom organisationen som är vald för denna fallstudie. Detta för att bidra med förbättringsförslag gällande nuvarande produktdatahanteringsmetod och system, samt verktyg, som finns implementerade idag. / In today’s market there is an increasing pressure on companies to reduce their time-to-market and lower their cost whilst maintaining a high quality on their products. As a result, manufacturing firms have to develop and produce products faster, at lower costs, and with increased quality in order to maintain their competiveness. The information and communications technology (ICT) market is a fast  changing  market,  which  makes  the  development  process  all  the  more  important.  The management of product data is an important aspect of the product development process, but also one of the most challenging. Product data and product data management (PDM) are important aspects of the new product introduction (NPI) process and in turn the product development process. This research is based on a case study research conducted at PIM (Product Introduction and Maintenance) RBS (Radio Base Station) Kista. PIM RBS Kista is a lead-site responsible for NPI and product development for certain appointed products within Ericsson, a world leading multinational corporation in the ICT industry. In alignment with the research focus the main processes used within PIM RBS Kista to gather, store, and use product data during product development in the NPI process has been described and analysed – in order to contribute to the PDM research field. The focus has been within the Operations department, in which new products are realised during different activities and from which product data is the main output. The processes identified and analysed provides insight how PDM is used during product realisation and its connection to the production shop floor. The thesis also discusses the main complications within the case organisation and suggests improvements regarding the current PDM processes and systems/tools used.

O comportamento e o desempenho acadêmico dos alunos em cursos de Engenharia é um campo fértil, interessante e crescente de investigação. Este trabalho apresenta os resultados obtidos na análise estocástica do progresso dos alunos em 15 cursos de graduação das diferentes opções oferecidas pela Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (EPUSP). Para realizar esta análise, foi desenvolvido um agente de avaliação aplicando-se o Processo de Decisão de Markov (PDM). Esse agente de avaliação extrai observações parciais dos estados atuais das notas dos alunos nas disciplinas cursadas e possibilita a identificação de ações adequadas para modelar autonomamente o comportamento futuro do aluno. O algoritmo aplicado estima o esforço que representa o estado cognitivo do aluno baseado em uma relação de pares estado/ação, calculada com base nas notas obtidas ao longo do período compreendido entre os 2000 e 2010. O período em que um aluno obteve uma nota de aprovação torna possível o estudo temporal desse evento, o que permite a utilização de métodos de agrupamento de dados, como os modelos ocultos de Markov, para a avaliação do comportamento das notas dos alunos durante os cursos de Engenharia. O presente estudo se fundamentou no agrupamento das notas dos alunos em três níveis para a classificação dos comportamentos das notas desses alunos. / The students behavior and academic performance in engineering programs is a fruitful field, interesting and crescent research. This paper presents the results of student progress obtained in stochastic analysis in 15 undergraduate courses of offered by the Escola Politécnica of the São Paulo University (EPUSP). An evaluation agent was developed to perform this analysis, applying the Markov Decision Process (PDM). This evaluation agent extracts partial observations of the current state of students\' grades in courses taken, enabling the identification of appropriate actions to autonomously shape the student future behaviour. The algorithm applied estimates the effort that represents the cognitive state of the student on states/action, based on the grades obtained during the period between 2000 and 2010. The period which a student received a passing grade makes possible the temporal study of this event, allowing the use of data grouping methods, such as hidden Markov models for the evaluation of the behaviours of students\' grades for the courses of engineering. This study is based on students grades at three different levels, classifying the behaviour of the notes.

O comportamento e o desempenho acadêmico dos alunos em cursos de Engenharia é um campo fértil, interessante e crescente de investigação. Este trabalho apresenta os resultados obtidos na análise estocástica do progresso dos alunos em 15 cursos de graduação das diferentes opções oferecidas pela Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (EPUSP). Para realizar esta análise, foi desenvolvido um agente de avaliação aplicando-se o Processo de Decisão de Markov (PDM). Esse agente de avaliação extrai observações parciais dos estados atuais das notas dos alunos nas disciplinas cursadas e possibilita a identificação de ações adequadas para modelar autonomamente o comportamento futuro do aluno. O algoritmo aplicado estima o esforço que representa o estado cognitivo do aluno baseado em uma relação de pares estado/ação, calculada com base nas notas obtidas ao longo do período compreendido entre os 2000 e 2010. O período em que um aluno obteve uma nota de aprovação torna possível o estudo temporal desse evento, o que permite a utilização de métodos de agrupamento de dados, como os modelos ocultos de Markov, para a avaliação do comportamento das notas dos alunos durante os cursos de Engenharia. O presente estudo se fundamentou no agrupamento das notas dos alunos em três níveis para a classificação dos comportamentos das notas desses alunos. / The students behavior and academic performance in engineering programs is a fruitful field, interesting and crescent research. This paper presents the results of student progress obtained in stochastic analysis in 15 undergraduate courses of offered by the Escola Politécnica of the São Paulo University (EPUSP). An evaluation agent was developed to perform this analysis, applying the Markov Decision Process (PDM). This evaluation agent extracts partial observations of the current state of students\' grades in courses taken, enabling the identification of appropriate actions to autonomously shape the student future behaviour. The algorithm applied estimates the effort that represents the cognitive state of the student on states/action, based on the grades obtained during the period between 2000 and 2010. The period which a student received a passing grade makes possible the temporal study of this event, allowing the use of data grouping methods, such as hidden Markov models for the evaluation of the behaviours of students\' grades for the courses of engineering. This study is based on students grades at three different levels, classifying the behaviour of the notes.

Kompetenzzellenbasierte (regionale) Netze stellen besondere Anforderungen an die Planung von Logistikstrukturen und Produktionsstätten. Das Planungskonzept für Netze (PlaNet) wurde entwickelt, um Kompetenzzellen als den kleinsten Leistungseinheiten in solchen Netzen, ein Regelwerk für die Lösung typischer Planungsfälle zur Verfügung zu stellen. PlaNet ist modular aufgebaut. Seine Komponenten leiten sich aus den Komponenten des Systems Engineering ab. Der Schwerpunkt der Betrachtung liegt auf den Komponenten Produktionsdatenmodell (PDM) und Netzplanungsassistent (NPA). Das Produktionsdatenmodell bildet das System kompetenzzellenbasiertes Netz ab und greift auf das Sichtenkonzept als Ordnungsrahmen zurück. Der Netzplanungsassistent gibt instrumentelle Unterstützung und verbindet kommerzielle und eigenentwickelte Softwarelösungen mittels eines Schnittstellenkonzeptes über eine zentrale Produktionsdatenbank (PDB). / Competence-cell based (regional) networks put special requirements on the planning of Logistics Structures and Production Plants. The Planning Concept for Networks (PlaNet) was developed to provide Competence Cells as the smallest producing units with a framework for solving typical planning problems. PlaNet has a modular structure. Its components are derived from the components of Systems engineering. In this paper the focus is on the Production Data Model and the Net Planning Assistant. The Production Data Model maps the system "Competence-cell based network" and uses the view concept as structuring framework. The Net Planning Assistant provides instrumental support and connects comercial and proprietary software tools via a Production Database with the help of a uniform interface concept.

L’objectif de cette thèse est de contribuer au développement d’approches méthodologiques et d’outils informatiques pour développer les chaînes d’intégration numériques en entreprise étendue. Il s’agit notamment de mieux intégrer et d’optimiser les activités de conception, d’intégration et de simulation dans le contexte du développement collaboratif des produits/systèmes complexes.La maquette numérique (DMU) – supportée par un système de gestion de données techniques (SGDT ou PDM) – est devenue ces dernières années un environnement fédérateur clé pour échanger et partager une définition technique et une représentation 3D commune du produit entre concepteurs et partenaires. Cela permet aux concepteurs ainsi qu’aux utilisateurs en aval (ceux qui sont en charge des simulations numériques notamment) d’avoir un accès à la géométrie du produit virtuel assemblé. Alors que les simulations numériques 3D et 2D prennent une place de plus en plus importante dans le cycle de développement du produit, la DMU offre de nouvelles perspectives à ces utilisateurs pour récupérer et exploiter les données CAO appropriées et adaptées pour les analyses par éléments finis. Cela peut ainsi permettre d’accélérer le processus de préparation du modèle de simulation. Cependant, les environnements industriels de maquettes numériques sont actuellement limités dans leur exploitation par : - un manque de flexibilité en termes de contenu et de structure, - l’absence d’artefact numérique 3D permettant de décrire les interfaces des composants de l’assemblage, - un manque d’intégration avec les données et activités de simulation.Cette thèse met notamment l’accent sur les transformations à apporter aux DMU afin qu’elles puissent être utilisées comme données d’entrée directes pour les analyses par éléments finis d’assemblages volumineux (plusieurs milliers de pièces). Ces transformations doivent être en cohérence avec le contexte et les objectifs de simulation et cela nous a amené au concept de « vue produit » appliquée aux DMUs, ainsi qu’au concept de « maquette comportementale » (BMU). Une « vue produit » définit le lien entre une représentation du produit et l’activité ou le processus utilisant ou générant cette représentation. La BMU est l’équivalent de la DMU pour les données et les processus de simulation. Au delà des géométries discrétisées, la dénommée BMU devrait, en principe, lier toutes les données et les modèles qui seront nécessaires pour simuler le comportement d’un ou plusieurs composants. L’élément clé pour atteindre l’objectif d’élargir le concept établi de la DMU (basée sur des modèles CAO) à celui de la BMU (basée sur des modèles CAE), est de trouver un concept d’interface bidirectionnel entre la BMU et sa DMU associée. C’est l’objectif du « Design-Analysis System Integration Framework » (DASIF) proposé dans cette thèse de doctorat. Ce cadre a vise à être implémenté au sein d’environnements PLM/SLM et doit pouvoir inter-opérer à la fois avec les environnements CAD-DMU et CAE-BMU. DASIF allie les fonctionnalités de gestion de données et de configuration des systèmes PDM avec les concepts et formalismes d’ingénierie système basée sur les modèles (MBSE) et des fonctionnalités de gestion des données de simulation (SDM). Cette thèse a été menée dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche européen : le projet CRESCENDO qui vise à développer le « Behavioural Digital Aircraft » (BDA) qui a pour vocation d’être la« colonne vertébrale » des activités de conception et simulation avancées en entreprise étendue. Le concept du BDA doit s’articuler autour d’une plateforme collaborative d’échange et de partage des données de conception et de simulation tout au long du cycle de développement et de vie des produits aéronautiques. [...] / The aim of this doctoral thesis is to contribute to the facilitation of design, integration and simulation activities in the aeronautics industry, but more generally in the context of collaborative complex product development. This objective is expected to be achieved through the use and improvement of digital engineering capabilities. During the last decade, the Digital Mock-Up (DMU) – supported by Product Data Management (PDM) systems – became a key federating environment to exchange/share a common 3D CAD model-based product definition between co-designers. It enables designers and downstream users(analysts) to access the geometry of the product assembly. While enhancing 3D and 2D simulations in a collaborative and distributed design process, the DMU offers new perspectives for analysts to retrieve the appropriate CAD data inputs used for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), permitting hence to speed-up the simulation preparation process. However, current industrial DMUs suffer from several limitations, such as the lack of flexibility in terms of content and structure, the lack of digital interface objects describing the relationships between its components and a lack of integration with simulation activities and data.This PhD underlines the DMU transformations required to provide adapted DMUs that can be used as direct input for large assembly FEA. These transformations must be consistent with the simulation context and objectives and lead to the concept of “Product View” applied to DMUs andto the concept of “Behavioural Mock-Up” (BMU). A product view defines the link between a product representation and the activity or process (performed by at least one stakeholder) that use or generate this representation as input or output respectively. The BMU is the equivalent of the DMU for simulation data and processes. Beyond the geometry, which is represented in the DMU,the so-called BMU should logically link all data and models that are required to simulate the physical behaviour and properties of a single component or an assembly of components. The key enabler for achieving the target of extending the concept of the established CAD-based DMU to the behavioural CAE-based BMU is to find a bi-directional interfacing concept between the BMU and its associated DMU. This the aim of the Design-Analysis System Integration Framework (DASIF) proposed in this PhD. This framework might be implemented within PLM/SLM environments and interoperate with both CAD-DMU and CAE-BMU environments. DASIF combines configuration data management capabilities of PDM systems with MBSE system modelling concepts and Simulation Data Management capabilities.This PhD has been carried out within a European research project: the CRESCENDO project, which aims at delivering the Behavioural Digital Aircraft (BDA). The BDA concept might consist in a collaborative data exchange/sharing platform for design-simulation processes and models throughout the development life cycle of aeronautics products. Within this project, the Product Integration Scenario and related methodology have been defined to handle digital integration chains and to provide a test case scenario for testing DASIF concepts. These latter have been used to specify and develop a prototype of an “Integrator Dedicated Environment” implemented in commercial PLM/SLM applications. Finally the DASIF conceptual data model has also served as input for contributing to the definition of the Behavioural Digital Aircraft Business Object Model: the standardized data model of the BDA platform enabling interoperability between heterogeneous PLM/SLM applications and to which existing local design environments and new services to be developed could plug.

<p>Rad,Edukativni i op&scaron;ti model kritičnih protoka materijala PD - Precedence Diagramming Structure, predstavlja integralni deo teorijskih i eksperimentalnih istraživanja vezanih za razvoj stohastičkih mreža PD-modela iz operacionih istraživanja, kao i modela za odgovarajuću edukaciju kadrova iz oblasti mrežnog upravljanja tokovima materijala u ma&scaron;inogradnji. U tom smislu u radu su razvijeni i re&scaron;avani, putem analitičkih i numeričkih metoda, sledeći modeli:</p><ul><li>Mrežni PD-model sa jednim kritičnim tokom.</li><li>Mrežni PD-model sa isključivo autonomnim (paralelnim) kritičnim tokovima.</li><li>Op&scaron;ti model sa varijantom kritičnih tokova autonomno-unijatnog tipa.</li><li>Edukativni model za efikasno re&scaron;avanje postavljenih problema upravljanjatokovima materijala u pojedinačnoj proizvodnji.</li><li>Modeli za vrednovanje metoda i postupaka iz ovih oblasti operacionih istraživanja, kao i samog edukativnog modela, na bazi razvijenih kvantitativnih i kvalitativnih kriterijuma.</li></ul><p>Ovim istraživanjem stvorene su određene podloge za dalji rad u predmetnom području, posebno sa stanovi&scaron;ta neinvesticionog povećanja efekata materijalne proizvodnje, putem primene razvijenih opercionih modela i edukativnih metoda za njihovo re&scaron;avanje.</p> / <p>The paper &quot;THE EDUCATIVE AND GENERAL MODEL OF THE CRITICAL MATERIAL FLOWS, PD-PRECEDENCE DIAGRAMMING STRUCTURE&quot; makes the integral part bof the theoretical and experimental researches connected for the development of the stochastic network PD - models of the opertions research, as well the models for the appropriote personal cadres edu cation in the field of network control of materijal flows in production of machinery. In the paper are also developed and solved, by analytic and numeric methods, the next models:</p><p>* The network PD-model with one critical flow.</p><p>* The network PD-model with excusively autonomus (parallel) critical flows.</p><p>* The general model with the variant of the critical flows of the autonomus -uniate type.</p><p>* The educative model for the effective solving of the stated problems of the material flows control in isolated production.</p><p>* The models and methods valuation of these fields of the operations researches, as well the educative model itself on the basic of the developed quantative and qualitative criteria.</p><p>With these researches are created the defined bases for further work in the subject field, particularly from the attitude of the noninvestment increasing of the effects of the materijal production, using the developed operations models and the educative models for their solving.</p>

Tato práce se zabývá vytvořením simulačního modelu dvojčinného pneumatického pístu s mechanickou sestavou, včetně modelů snímačů, s následujícím odhadem parametrů a aproximací chování demonstračního zařízení. Dalším cílem je prezentace různých přístupů prediktivní údržby na datové sadě měřené na demonstračním zařízení. Na měřený datový soubor se aplikovaly signal-based techniky bez použití simulačního modelu a model-based metody, které vyžadují použití simulačního modelu. Výsledkem této práce je ověření možnosti monitorování stavu zařízení pomocí nainstalovaných senzorů a vyhodnocení efektivity senzorů z hlediska přesnosti a finančních nákladů.