Integrated product and enterprise design for global competitiveness
Date
1998
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SAIIE
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of the challenge to integrate product and process life cycles in
maintaining global competitiveness of an enterprise and proposes IEKOS as a possible solution .
It provides the reader with a framework of two virtual life cycles which create a problem solving
matrix for the industrial engineer. In this matrix, bordered by the virtual enterprise life cycle and
the virtual product life cycles, the business functions of analyze, design deploy and operate are
predominantly functions executed by the, industrial engineer. The different phases of each life
cycle serves as a framework to a virtual industrial engineering toolkit providing access to
detailed functions, formats, examples and a series of software and other "tools" available to the
industrial engineer.
In conclusion a brief overview is provided of the progress of the IEKOS toolkit which is
under development at the department ofIndustrial Engineering at Stellenbosch University.
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CITATION: Du Preez, N. D. & Reid, J. M. C. 1998. Integrated product and enterprise design for global competitiveness. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 9(1):37-45, doi:10.7166/9-1-379.
The original publication is available at http://sajie.journals.ac.za
The original publication is available at http://sajie.journals.ac.za
Keywords
Agility, Enterprises -- Design, Product design, Life cycle, Product
Citation
Du Preez, N. D. & Reid, J. M. C. 1998. Integrated product and enterprise design for global competitiveness. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 9(1):37-45, doi:10.7166/9-1-379