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New job roles in global engineering - from education to industrial deployment

2011 , Lindow, K. , Müller, P. , Stark, R.

Product creation is facing the next level of fundamental changes. Global demands are growing substantially to achieve energy efficient and sustainable value creation networks for production, products and services without compromising traditional success factors such as time to market, cost and quality. To stay competitive within such an environment development partners in industry and public sectors will require new interplay solutions for engineering design execution, domain knowledge representation, expert competence utilization and digital assistance systems. Competition in engineering design is characterized by actors and stakeholders such as designers, engineers, OEMs, suppliers, or engineering service providers, by technical targets and economic factors within the field of application, and by higher level needs of regional and global environments and social equity. To face such challenges, new roles in engineering design have to be implemented in organizations and development projects. Otherwise new engineering design methods will lack deployment in industrial practice and finally fail. This paper addresses the need for selected new engineering job roles to deploy former made achievements in engineering design. The focused roles are "PSS Architect", "Sustainability Mentor", and "Virtual Product Creation Engineer". Within the contribution requirements on teaching and the industrial deployment of the new job roles in a global engineering environment are presented.

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Scenario-based approach to the holistic development of sustainable products

2009 , Lindow, K. , Weinert, N. , Stark, R. , Seliger, S.

Various approaches to sustainable product creation primarily address ecological and economical aspects. Social aspects are often neglected even though products and their processes related to development, production, use and end-of-life directly influence the living conditions of todays and future generations. As a result, the product properties which are defined during the process of product creation should support and ensure sustainable development throughout both the product and the factory life cycle. For this purpose, the product creation process requires appropriate approaches and tools. An approach to sustainable product creation based on scenarios is presented in this paper. A systematic look into the future of sustainable products by means of scenarios permits conclusions to be dr awn concerning sustainable product development.

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The way forward of Virtual Product Creation - how to achieve robustness in using digital engineering technology?

2010 , Stark, R. , Kim, M. , Woll, R. , Wolter, L.

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Competing in engineering design - the role of virtual product creation

2009 , Stark, R. , Krause, F.-L. , Kind, C. , Rothenburg, U. , Müller, P. , Stöckert, H.

Product creation is facing the next level of fundamental changes. Global demands are growing substantially to achieve energy efficient and sustainable value creation networks for products, production and services without compromising traditional success factors such as time to market, cost and quality. To stay competitive within such an environment development partners in industry and public sectors will require new interplay solutions for engineering design execution, domain knowledge representation, expert competence utilization and digital assistance systems. This scenario offers the chance for virtual production creation solutions to become critical for the future by offering unique engineering capabilities which have not yet explored or deployed. The paper investigates key elements of modern virtual product creation such as agile process execution, functional product modeling and context appropriate information management towards their competitive role in satisfying increasing numbers of product requirements, in delivering robust systems integration and in ensuring true sustainable product lifecycle solutions.

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