Fifth working group meeting during the CIRP August meetings 2009
Participants
M. Abramovici; E. Ahearne; T. Arai; J. Aurich; P. Butala; D. Ceglarek; P. Cunha; J. Duflou; W. Eversheim; G. Gudergan; M. Hauschild; S. Heyer; S. Kumara; G. Lanza; E.W. Lee; D. Lung; H. Meier; A. Öhrwall Rönnbäck; M. Putz; S. Rahimifard; R. Roy; O. Sauer; G. Schuh; G. Seliger; Y. Shimomura; W. Sihn; S. Takata; M. Tseng; Y. Umeda; H.C. Zhang;
Agenda
1. Opening, Welcome
2. Introduction of invited Guests
3. Approval of the Agenda
4. IPS2 Keynote 2010 presentation and discussion:
a. Professor Horst Meier: 10 mins
b. Professor Rajkumar Roy: 10 mins
c. Professor Guenther Seliger: 10 mins
d. Future of IPS²
e. Discussion
5. Technical Presentations:
a. Functional process adjustment: Product and Process Improvement based on Integration of Service Performance Data and Manufacturing Measurements:
Professor D.J. Ceglarek, (Warwick UK): 15 mins
b. Knowledge for Competitive IPS² with the help of Collective Intelligence:
Professor Guenther Seliger (Germany): 15 mins
6. CIRP IPS2 Spring School
7. CIRP IPS² Conference
8. Any other business
9. Closure
1./2./3. Opening, Welcome, Introduction of invited guests, approval of the Agenda
The meeting was opened by the chairman H. Meier at 10:30. He welcomed all members and asked the invited guests to give a short introduction. Afterwards he officially opened the meeting. The agenda was approved without remarks.
4. IPS2 Keynote 2010 presentation and discussion
Prof. Meier, Prof. Roy and Prof. Seliger gave a brief introduction about the structure of the IPS² Keynote paper, the working progress and put it on discussion. One important aspect of the discussion was the design of the IPS²-framework. In comparison to the product business, first you have to make clear what you want to sell and what are the demands of the customers? Companies will create markets in the future no products anymore. These points have to be integrated into the framework, so that it becomes a wider scope. Also a very important aspect is the question “why is industry pushing into IPS²?” This has to be emphasized in the keynote paper. If a clear answer for that is found, the next step is to define an entrepreneurial responsibility/ownership for the future product, to intensify the motivation of IPS². So the suggestion is to enlarge framework in the following way: 1. What are the drivers of IPS²? 2. What are the entrepreneurial level / ownership? Also the social aspects of IPS² need to be regarded. But it is important not to lose the focus of the Keynote paper and to run the risk of becoming too wide and imprecise.
According to the question what is the future of IPS², several ideas came up. One idea was to create a road map of IPS² with all important issues and their working progress. Future research will focus on undone topics. New cross linking to other STC can be found and addressed. Another way is to emphasize the sustainability of IPS² in the future. Customisation of IPS2 is another important aspect and should be included in the paper. There are papers on co-design of products that could be useful for a section on co-design of IPS2.
Presentations
Within this meeting two technical presentations were given. The slides will be made available on the working group’s special web-site (www.ips2.org).
5. a Functional Process Improvement based on Integration of manufacturing and service data
Professor Ceglarek was giving a brief introduction into his field of research. He demonstrated the potentials of data mining to reduce the failure rate in service providing. He explained the procedure model using the example of Motorola.
5. b Knowledge for Competitive Intelligence
Prof. Seliger was giving a survey about the virtual life cycle unit. He explained the audience the idea, the architecture and the future research in this field.
6. IPS2 Spring School
The last Spring School took place in Cranfield UK. The target of 20 participants could not be reached, only 16 participants from 5 countries attended. The programme was a good success. Next year the spring school will be open for all relevant people like CIRP Research Affiliates or research assistants, PhD students of the CIRP IPS2 working group members and outsiders. The future Spring School will take place in February in Grenoble. Nominations has to be send to Professor Daniel Brissaud in by the end of October.
7. CIRP IPS² Conference
The next CIRP IPS² Conference will take place in Linköping Sweden from 14th to 15th of April 2010. The deadline for the submission of Abstracts is the 15th of September, for the Full Paper the 15th of November. Prof. Anna Öhrwall Rönnbäck gave a survey about the topics of the conference.
8. Any other business
No remarks
10. Closure
H. Meier thanked all members and guests for their attendance and contributions. The meeting was adjourned at 12.30 pm.