Technology & Innovation Management: - PICMET Conference

PAPERS AND PANELS
customer. Attaining the highest quality at the lowest cost is emerging
as a major manufacturing challenge. To meet these tough and contradictory
goals requires continuous improvement at all levels of product
development, i.e., from idea to market. This paper outlines the
use of Quality Factors and Tools in the product development cycle
and addresses the methodology to convert each quality function into
product improvement expressed in the producer’s language.
MG-14.2 - Managing Technology of America’s Infrastructure
Robert Cerveny, Florida Atlantic University
Samuel Stephenson, Florida Atlantic University
The nation’s defense, prosperity and quality of life are increasingly
dependent upon judicious management of the technology of complex
networks of interlinked computer systems and dedicated computer
networks. At a rapid pace the nation’s critical infrastructures - energy,
finance, telecommunications, transportation and vital human services
- are becoming more and more dependent on management’s
assessment and implementation of technology-based strategies for
infrastructure protection from physical and cyber attacks.
MG-14.3 - Simulation Technologies in Heavy Truck Process
Engineering
Mario Revellino, IVECO S.P.A.
Luigi Saggese, IVECO S.P.A.
T De Muro, IVECO S.P.A.
The spread use of shape and drawing digital form, can allow automotive
vehicle product development time reduction. This can represent
a noticeable competitive factor in the field of industrial vehicles,
where specialized product to be produced in low or niche volume,
are the standard rule. In this paper some of the main application
of product and process simulation are described.
MG-14.4 - A Simulation Tool for Automated Guided Vehicle Systems
Bulent Sezen, Gebze Institute of Technology
M.P. Deisenroth, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Gul Okudan, Gebze Institute of Technology
The design and control of an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) system
is a complex issue and needs planning prior to the implementation of
the system. This project provides an analysis tool for evaluation of a
variety of AGV systems. A generic AGV simulator has been developed
by using the AGV library of a commercial simulation package, SIM-
PLE++. SIMPLE++ is an object-oriented modeling and simulation environment.
Object orientation provides higher development speed, ease
of modification, and reduced complexity. The generic AGV simulator is
also capable of reading the layout data from an AutoCAD drawing.
MG-14.5 - Management of Technology: A Political Process Approach
Christian Koch, Technical University of Denmark
Despite the argued revisionist character of the MOT movement, most
Management of Technology writings fail to address enterprise developments
as political processes, where visions, coalitions and emergence
are central features.The paper reports on a participant’s observation
study of management of technology processes.
MG-14.6 - Managing High-Tech Computer Security Against Smart
and Persistent Intruders
George Ross, Virginia Technology Corporation
Gideon Samid, Virginia Technology Corporation
Yesterday computer security was perceived as a passive lock, once
applied then forgotten about today computer security is an going
effort, a war against a range of “infotruders” who get smarter and
remain persistent in proportion to the data treasure under attack. The
question addressed here is how to build management guidelines, how
to budget, and allocate resources in order to achieve proper balance
between what is necessary to secure information, and what is a panicdriven
“Maginot line,” which costs too much and protects too little.
MG-14.7 - Managing Quality System for High Performance
Claudemir Gimenez, UNICAMP/FEM/DEMA
Geraldo Telles, UNICAMP
Companies dispute market share among local and global companies,
and customers are very important for these companies. Quality arise
as tool for maximise opportunities in this environment. This article
presents a work developed during last year (1997) in a subsidiary of
U.S. autoparts company in Brazil. The company designed its own
quality system. This system identified and solved problems.
Customers and suppliers are considered in this system. Sections of
this work include management system, quality values, data management
of internal operations (e.g. manufacturing, engineering, and
planning), analysis and use of data for decision making, quality planning,
benchmark information, design of new products, and quality
assurance of external suppliers.
MG-14.8 - Manufacturing Fitness for Technology Transfer
Jay Varzandeh, California State University
Kamvar Farahbod, California State University
The problems associated with technology management and technology
transfer are complex, unstructured and poorly defined. The
tremendous increase in business globalization in recent years, on the
other hand, requires fast and efficient transfer of manufacturing technology
around the world. The notion of fitness for technology transfer
can provide an understanding of how well a manufacturing process
and capability can be transferred between home and host organizations.
As the starting phase of the entire transfer process, the fitness
assessment phase provides results that feed into the packaging and
monitoring phases that must follow. This paper describes the necessity
of technology transfer in today’s manufacturing environments and
presents a comprehensive framework, which can explore the mechanisms
of transferring technology. Moreover, this study promotes the
formation of a strategic alliance for facilitating the smooth and fast
transfer of technology. Also, the phases of manufacturing technology
transfer are discussed and the role of manufacturing fitness assessment
phase in determining the fastness and ease of the transfer is
emphasized.
MG-14.9 - Applying “Lean” Techniques to Computer Support Services
Michael Richerson, Boeing
Lean manufacturing techniques were originally developed to
improve factory operations. In the factory these techniques reduced
inventory, reduced defects, reduced the distance parts traveled
through the factory and clustered operations on the same part in the
same area of the factory. When applied to computer support services,
lean techniques can reduce backlog of service requests, reduce flow
times, reduce defects and improve customer satisfaction.
TB-01 Tuesday, July 27, 1999
10:00 - 11:30 Galleria-1
New Product Development 3
Chair: Yee-Yeen Chu, National Tsing-Hua University
TB-01.1 - Risk Management Heuristics in New Product Development
Antonie de Klerk, University of Pretoria
New product development projects are unique from a risk-management
perspective: the risks are high and the very nature of such pro-
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