中国地区制造业竞争力比较--从行业角度分析

通过测定31个省市区制造业及行业的市场占有率和竞争优势系数,分别从市场优势和竞争优势两个方面比较分析了各地区制造业及行业的竞争力水平及差异,得出了几点最重要结论及启示。     

面向动态环境的制造联盟

经济的全球化、知识经济的来临以及消费者偏好的改变使制造商面临的环境发生了巨大的变化,呈现出动态变化趋势;动态环境导致商的竞争优势的持续时间越来越短而其面临的风险越来越大;面向动态环境建立制造联盟是制造商为迎接动态环境带来的挑战的有效策略。结合先进制造技术与共生的有关理论界定了制造联盟的概念,讨论了制造联盟区别于传统组织模式的特征;分析了实施制造联盟的难点、提出了相应的对策。     

A hybrid model of component sharing and platform modularity for optimal product family design

Today's industry faces new challenges such as diverse customer demands, shorter product development cycles and cost pressure, which compel manufacturing firms to change their production paradigm from one-size-fits-all mass production toward mass customisation. Over the past decades, modular design has received great attention as a key enabler for mass customisation, and component sharing and platform modularity have been quite popular strategies for modular design. While modular design approaches and their strategies offer a number of advantages such as late product differentiation and changeability, there are unfortunately negative aspects, for example, sales loss due to reduced performance compared to integral design approaches, which have received little attention. Therefore, we propose a hybrid model of the two strategies in order to develop the most profitable product family. A detailed numerical analysis provides empirical support for the feasibility and effectiveness of the hybrid model.     

The paradox of driving speed: two adverse effects on highway accident rate

Whereas speeding is known to be a substantial risk factor in driving, there is no unequivocal evidence that accident rate on limited-access motor highways is considerably affected by average speed or by speed limits meant to regulate it. It is suggested here that the seeming puzzle actually may have a straightforward explanation: accident-prone interactions (APIs) between cars occur when they pass each other--mostly moving in the same directions or in opposite ones. Such interactions are shown here to happen more frequently, the lower average speed is. To the extent that high speed limits contribute to increase in average speed, they serve to reduce the number of such interactions, thereby to moderate at least part of the negative effect of speed on the driver's ability to avoid an impending accident.     

Development of navigation guidance and control technology for Indian launch vehicles

The orbital injection accuracy of any payload depends on the calibre of the inertial guidance system used on board the launch vehicle. This paper outlines the mission definition and the rationale for the selection of a proper guidance system to meet final mission objectives. The functions and the architecture of the navigation, guidance and control are discussed. The developmental aspects of the sophisticated inertial sensors, inertial systems, associated complex electronics, on-board computers, control actuators and systems are reported. The complexity of the on-board control and guidance software and the test and evaluation procedures used for their validation are included. The general scheme of the inertial guidance systems and the critical role played by them in the realization of Indian satellite launch vehicles SLV-3, ASLV and PSLV are presented in brief.     

Strategies for evaluating performance of flexibility in product recovery system

In view of the increasing business opportunities with changing customer attitudes and stricter legislations, the handling of returns has become a daunting challenge. The need for decision models for evaluating return performance has been observed in the academia and the corporate world. To improve return system performance, integrated flexible reverse enterprise systems have attracted attention from researchers as well as practitioners. This paper addresses these critical issues and proposes a novel integrated and Flexible recovery system decision model. The proposed model aims to facilitate enterprises in assessing their product recovery system capability, and in improving overall performance. The proposed model is a natural extension of several well-grounded policies for conventional reverse supply chains and can be verified on a simulation platform.     

Analytic hierarchy prioritisation of new product development activities for electronics manufacturing

New product development (NPD) is a managerial process, performed by many activities. The purpose of this paper is to present the application of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to prioritise activities of NPD for manufacturing companies of electronic products. Mathematical modelling was the research method adopted. An electronics cluster located in the southeast region of Brazil was studied. Therefore, 10 of the 42 activities from an NPD model were suggested to be excluded for the electronics companies. These activities have less than 0.5% overall priority. The results from the AHP application were welcomed by the companies’ NPD experts.     

电子商务企业的成本优势分析

通过对电子商务企业的成本分析，指出企业可变成本大量地被沉淀为固定成本，同时企业交易成本、生产成本、管理成本相对收缩。分析表明，网络环境下企业的交易成本向着两个相反的方向发展，这两个方向都具有提高企业竞争优势的效果；在生产领域，电子商务改变企业竞争的基础主要在于降低企业单位劳动成本和产品设计成本；企业实施电子商务不仅降低了库存成本，而且提高了企业内部每个管理层的管理能力，扩大了它们的管理范围，使管理成本相对下降，这一切都有助于提高企业的竞争力。     

Coordinated optimisation of platform-driven product line planning by bilevel programming

Product line planning (PLP) aims at an optimal combination of product feature offerings, suggesting itself to be a determinant decision for a company to satisfy diverse customer needs and gain competitive advantages. Fulfilment of planned product lines must make trade-offs between product variety and production costs. To balance the costs of product lines, manufacturers often adopt a product platform configuration (PPC) approach to redesign product and process platforms by adding new modules to the legacy platforms. The PPC is an effective means of providing product variety while controlling the manufacturing costs. The PLP and PPC problems have traditionally been investigated separately in the marketing research and engineering design fields. It is important to coordinate PLP and PPC decisions within a coherent optimisation framework. This paper proposes a bilevel mixed 0–1 nonlinear programming model to formulate coordinated optimisation for platform-driven product line planning. The upper level deals with the PLP problem by maximising the profit of an entire product line, whilst the lower level copes with the multiple product platforms optimisation for the optimal PPC in accordance with the upper level decisions of product line structure. To solve this bilevel programming model, a bilevel genetic algorithm is developed to find the optimal solution. A case study of coordinated optimisation between an automobile line and its product platforms is presented to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed bilevel programming in comparison with a typical ‘all-in-one’ approach and a non-joint optimisation programming.     

弹性支撑模型对火箭发射过程结构振动响应影响研究EI北大核心CSCD

固体火箭从发射筒发射过程中,采用弹性支撑降低火箭结构与发射筒内壁接触引起的冲击,弹性支撑力学模型对火箭发射过程中结构振动响应计算存在影响。利用多体动力学建立包含火箭、发射筒、弹性支撑在内的发射动力学模型,在火箭发射物理过程分析基础上,利用ANSYS/LS-DYNA软件建立火箭壳体与弹性支撑局部有限元模型,获得了火箭壳体与弹性支撑接触面积变化对支撑刚度影响规律,在此基础上,提出了用于火箭发射多体动力学建模的弹性支撑改进模型,求解弹性支撑模型改进前后火箭发射过程结构振动响应与弹性支撑支反力,分析了弹性支撑模型改进对结构振动响应的影响及其原因。结果表明:提出的弹性支撑改进模型可以准确描述火箭尾部结构脱离弹性支撑过程中接触面积逐渐变化到零的物理过程;与弹性支撑模型改进前相比,改进后结构弯矩响应峰值显著减小。该成果有助于准确评估火箭发射过程结构响应水平,对于火箭结构精细化设计具有工程意义。     

Introducing new parts into existing cellular manufacturing systems based on a novel similarity coefficient

Over the last three decades, designing cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) still centres on assigning machines to machine cells and parts to part families. This task ends after assigning these part families to the appropriate machine cells. In the past, testing CMS was evaluated according to the efficiency of clustering, but actual testing of CMS after installation is still unexplored. Introducing one or more new parts (products) into CMS without any changes in the installation of the cells during processing of the current parts is a new concept to be considered and evaluated. Transferring these systems from traditional ideologues to advanced ideologues (agile systems) is highly desired. This concept can be considered as part (product) flexibility in CMS. To address this concept, a new similarity coefficient between the new part and the existing manufacturing cell will be created. New productivity and flexibility measurements in CMS will also be suggested. A new strategy for accepting a new part into CMS will be proposed based on machine utilization and flexibility in the cells, cell utilization and flexibility in the system, product flexibility (system flexibility), and similarity of this part with existing manufacturing cells. A complete analytical example will be presented.     

The effects of integrated supply management practices and environmental management practices on relative competitive quality advantage

Superior quality continues to be central to a manufacturing company's success, and firms are constantly striving for quality advantage over their competition. It is therefore crucial for companies to ensure the sound practice of quality management principles. However, companies must also seek additional avenues to enhance the relative competitive quality advantage of their product offerings. In this context, we examine the role of integrated supply management practices (SMP) and environmental management practices (EMP) as drivers of actual and perceived quality. We suggest that these groups of practices, in addition to quality management practices, are crucial in an increasingly transparent, competitive and global business environment. As such, SMP can be leveraged with suppliers providing expertise, capabilities and high quality inputs for the final product, resulting in higher actual quality, but also via the suppliers’ more intangible reputation, generating higher perceived quality. Similarly, EMP can result in process improvements impacting actual quality, but can also create a favourable image of the company among customers, enhancing the perceived quality of the firm's products. Overall, we suggest SMP and EMP as key strategic drivers aiding in the further differentiation of firms. Our hypotheses are grounded in the resource-based view of the firm, and are tested with survey data collected from 434 manufacturing plants.     

Standardised product development for technology integration of additive manufacturing

ABSTRACT

The implementation of additive manufacturing (AM) as an industrial production process poses extraordinary challenges to companies due to the far-reaching differences to conventional processes. In addition, there are hardly any standards and guidelines or methodical process models for the relatively new technologies that enable the reproducible and target-oriented use of AM. In order to solve this problem, five industrial companies together with the Paderborn University are researching as part of the ‘OptiAMix’ research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This paper focuses on the development of an ideal process chain. Reference processes of the OptiAMix partners were analysed, norms and standards from conventional production were adapted and implemented and procedure models developed OptiAMix were integrated. The resulting AM Product Development Process was then applied and validated with the aid of a previously developed integration methodology using an example component from the automotive industry.     

基于多生物效应的功能组合产品设计方法研究

功能组合产品是创新产品的一类重要形式,为提高功能组合产品设计的可行性和创新性,提出基于多生物效应的功能组合产品设计方法.首先研究生物原型功能实现的多种因素组合及转化机理,抽取多生物效应来构建多生物效应知识库;其次分析多生物效应模型归纳功能组合基本模式,融合TRIZ方法建立了基于多生物效应的产品功能组合设计过程模型,以生物功能协同实现模式指导产品功能组合设计;最后应用该方法完成湿热地区淡水收集帐篷的设计.研究表明,该功能组合产品设计方法较好地满足了用户对产品的多种需求,具有一定有效性与可行性.     

The effect of integrated product development on efficiency and innovation

This study tested the effect of integrated product development (IPD) on the efficiency and innovation displayed in new product development (NPD) projects. IPD refers to the overlap, parallel execution, and concurrent workflow of activities. More than 600 employees from 62 R&D projects in one large hi-tech electronics organisation participated in the study. The degree to which the projects had actual IPD, innovated and worked efficiently were measured using the organisation's data collection system and questionnaires. Analysis was conducted at the project level. Seven regression models, as well as multiple comparison tests, were applied. The findings suggest that IPD is positively associated with efficiency and negatively with innovation. However, the trade-off between efficiency and innovation in NPD projects can be balanced, if the IPD level of implementation is tailored to the NPD project stages. Specifically, to successfully complete an NPD project, the emphasis in early stages must be on innovation so that it can assist teams seeking new ideas. Hence, management should implement a low level of IPD at this point. In later stages efficiency must be emphasised so it assists control, and co-ordination, and consequently, IPD should be implemented intensively.     

Identification of the to-be-improved product features based on online reviews for product redesign

Acquisition of customer needs usually serves as the basis for the identification of to-be-improved features for the product redesign process. However, the customer's true needs tend to be non-obvious and are difficult to extract from the data source like interviews or market survey. In the era of Big Data, with the advances in e-commerce, the customer's online review has become one of the most important data source to reveal the insight of customer's preference. In this paper, an online-review-based approach is introduced to identify the to-be-improved product features. The product features and corresponding opinions are extracted and reduced based on the semantic similarity. A structured preference model based on the semantic orientation analysis is constructed. A redesign index is subsequently introduced to measure the priority of redesign for each feature, and a target feature selection model is created to identify the to-be-improved features from candidate features considering engineering cost, redesign lead time and technical risk. A case study for smartphones is developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed approach. In the future study, the online reviews may be combined with the traditional survey data to provide a more effective and reliable identification on the to-be-improved product features.     

The credibility of speed limits on 80 km/h rural roads: The effects of road and person(ality) characteristics

The present study aimed to operationalise the concept of credible speed limits and to make a first step to elaborate it in such a way that road authorities can put the concept into practice. The study focused on the credibility of an 80 km/h limit for different rural roads and assessed the effects of characteristics of the road and its environment as well as the effects of person and personality characteristics. Almost 600 Dutch car drivers were asked to judge 27 photographs of (different) rural roads with a posted speed limit of 80 km/h. To determine the degree of credibility, for each road scene the subjects filled in the preferred speed and the speed limit they considered to be safe. The results show large differences in both preferred speed and the safe speed limit between the road scenes, both below and above the limit of 80 km/h. These differences were related to a number of characteristics of the road and the road environment, such as the presence or absence of a curve and characteristics concerning the field of view (sight distance, clarity of situation). There were also large differences between subjects and these were related to age, the degree of sensation seeking, the number of speeding tickets in the last 3 years and the part of the country they lived in. Subjects were influenced by more or less the same road features.     

The magnitude of a product recall: offshore outsourcing vs. captive offshoring effects

The escalation in product recalls in recent years is attributed to the rise of globalisation and associated challenges of offshoring. Extant SCM research suggests that product recalls have a significant negative impact on financial performance, but gaps exist relative to the managerial actions to minimise their impact. Recall response strategies have become more important in the press, given that a single recall may result in the mandatory withdrawal of millions of products from the market, with firms incurring enormous logistics costs and brand damage. In this study, we address this gap in the research, and using a measure of product recall defined as the volume of products withdrawn from the market due to product quality failure. We explore the scale of the recall in the context of pharmaceutical sector global sourcing strategies, exploring whether the variation in global sourcing decisions not only increases the likelihood of a recall, but also influences the capability to minimise the total cost of recall. Our results suggest that offshore outsourcing and captive offshoring have opposite effects in terms of their influence on the magnitude of product recall. We summarise the implications through a compelling set of insights for future global sourcing strategy research themes.     

罗茨真空泵机组抽气速率分析

罗茨真空泵机组因配用前级泵不同和所处工作压力范围的差异，相应其抽气速率变化较大，设计中应根据具体工况条件及真空系统使用要求，力求使罗茨真空泵机组体现好的适用性和经济性。