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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00001

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: c1-c1

Authors: A. Tursi; H. Panetto; G. Morel; M. Dassisti

Abstract: Standardisation initiatives (ISO and IEC) try to answer the problem of managing heterogeneous information, scattered within organizations, by formalising the knowledge related to products technical data. While the product is the centred object from which, along its life cycle, all enterprise systems, either inside a single enterprise or between cooperating networked enterprises, have a specific view, we may consider it as active as far as it participates to the decisions making by providing knowledge about itself. This paper proposes a novel approach, postulating that the product, represented by its technical data, may be considered as interoperable per se with the many applications involved in manufacturing enterprises as far as it embeds knowledge about itself, as it stores all its technical data, provided that these are embedded on a common model. The matter of this approach is to formalise of all technical data and concepts contributing to the definition of a Product Ontology, embedded into the product itself and making it interoperable with applications, minimising loss of semantics.

Keywords: enterprise integration and networking,interoperability,product data management,ontology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00015

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 85-93

Authors: Alexander Mahl; Anatoli Semenenko; Jivka Ovtcharova

Abstract: For many enterprises recent significant challenges, such as: how best to design and innovate, how to understand constantly shifting customer needs, how to produce the products that meet those needs within tight budget and time constraints are of crucial importance. Forming networks through co-operation between different companies (virtual organizations) has become an important business strategy for SMEs to respond to these challenges. The paper discusses new approaches to support intercultural and cross-enterprise collaborations using a modular framework, which provides an integrated view of the relevant information on a data level and allows on the fly integration of external systems.

Keywords: cross-domain engineering,virtual organisations,interoperability between proprietary systems

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00037

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 225-230

Authors: Alvaro Guarin; Juan Gomez; Mauricio Hincapie; David Guerra; Arturo Molina

Abstract: Integration technologies applied to product development is an important issue at Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) research area. There is a need to explore new approaches to improve product development in a collaborative and globally manner. This paper presents a PLM approach to evaluate and analize collaboration methods applying reverse engineering process. The research work uses a lathe case study developed by EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia and supported by PLM laboratory infrastructure from Tecnologico de Monterrey, México. This paper argues that new integration technologies using PLM tools and reverse engineering improve the product development process. The first two stages of a case study are presented and the further research is to fully automate the manufacturing process of a lathe through reverse engineering.

Keywords: reverse engineering,integration technologies,PLM tools,automation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00023

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 135-140

Authors: Antonio J. Vallejo; Ruben Morales-Menendez; J. R. Alique

Abstract: High speed machining implies both high production and product quality, where surface roughness is an important performance index. A proposal for a supervisory control system is presented that predict the cutting parameters in peripheral milling process based on monitoring the surface roughness and the cutting tool condition. The novel framework consists of four modules: data acquisition system, cutting tool monitoring, surface roughness prediction and intelligent planning. Given its relevance, the surface roughness prediction module is presented in detail. A general model is introduced that considers several aluminum alloys, cutting parameters, geometries, and cutting tools. Early results validate the potential benefits of the cost-effective supervisory control system.

Keywords: surface roughness,high speed machining,cost-effective supervisory control system,cutting tool wear

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00025

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 147-152

Authors: B. Iung; E. Levrat; A. Crespo Marquez; H. Erbe

Abstract: E-maintenance is an emerging concept generally defined as "a maintenance management concept whereby assets are monitored and managed over the Internet". Nevertheless a lot of complementary definitions exists in which are introduced the principles of collaboration, knowledge, intelligence ... A consensus is not approved and the number of references and work is huge without a unique repository to ensure consistency. Consequently the aim of this research and review note is to define more precisely the emerging concept of e-maintenance and then to propose and discuss a conceptual e-maintenance framework based on Zachman framework. Such a framework can facilitate a widespread understanding of e-maintenance and provide useful guidance for supporting e-maintenance deployment through services, processes, organisation and infrastructure. Because of this, it can be used to classify recent e-maintenance contributions.

Keywords: maintenance,e-maintenance,e-maintenance framework,eco-efficiency,infotronics technologies

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00005

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 18-29

Authors: Berger Ulrich; Thiebus Sven; Vargas A. Algebra Veronica

Abstract: The automotive industry is facing new challenges from increasing product diversification, decreasing product life cycle times and the permanent need of cost reduction. The increasing complexity of products and the reduction of costs per unit determine complex manufacturing systems with high levels of automation. The product ramp-up has a crucial role for the financial success in the automotive industry. The performance of a ramp-up depends on the maturity of product and manufacturing system. The reuse of knowledge of experience is an extraordinary driver for the maturity of both product and manufacturing system. A new approach combines the Delphi-method with experience management software based on semantic web technology. The combined solution enables to reuse experience for the development of highly automated manufacturing systems and to minimise rampup risks.

Keywords: automotive industry,ramp-up,knowledge management,Delphi method,maturity,semantic web

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00002

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 1-6

Authors: C. Verde

Abstract: This paper shows the significance of the structural models to solve diagnosis issues for concurrent faults in large scale systems. Considering that the capability to solve a particular fault diagnosis problem is a structural property between internal and external variables of the process with redundancy, it is suggested to investigate the structural model of a process as previous work to the formulation of a fault diagnosis task. This previous study guarantees a successful residual generator task and simplifies the fault tolerance control reconfiguration issue. The generic structure of a system is analyzed in term of graph theory tools, since diverse software toolboxes are today available to straightforward handle relations between variables and their redundancy. Real applications cases, as the concurrent leaks isolation in a pipeline and faults in a gas turbine, illustrate the advantages of the structural model to formulate proper diagnosis tasks.

Keywords: fault detection and isolation,residual structure,diagnostic tests,bipartite graph

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00020

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 118-123

Authors: David A. Guerra-Zubiaga; Samantha Rodriguez-Bueno; Ricardo Ramirez; Nathalie Galeano; Arturo Molina

Abstract: Some manufacturing enterprises are typically organized in clusters; a Virtual Breeding Environment (VBE) is aimed to group diverse institutions and their support organizations sharing a business interest, so they could later operate as a Virtual Organization (VO). A VBE is proposed as a strategy to integrate manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). This paper gives an overview of VOs and international aerospace clusters. The proposed VBE model is explained through a case study done in the Mexican Aerospace Industry which provides a high level VBE model for the Aerospace Sector to capture the roles of the stake holders and to create VOs for integrated aircraft assembly process.

Keywords: VBE models,aerospace assembly process,virtual organizations,virtual design tools,aerospace clusters

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00034

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 207-211

Authors: David J. Broderick; David M. Bevly

Abstract: Nonparametric modeling of an unmanned ground vehicle is performed as part of a larger effort to develop online state estimation techniques based on artificial neural networks. The output of these networks will provide estimation of the states of the lateral dynamics. The architecture of these networks is considered in an effort to provided an adaptable, generalized network that provides accuracy comparble to that of traditional modeling techniques. The feedforward, fully-connected feedforward and cascade architectures are considered within. A Box-Jenkins model is developed to provided a parametric baseline as a means of comparison.

Keywords: nonparametric modeling,lateral vehicle dynamics,artificial neural network

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00040

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 243-248

Authors: E. Levrat; E. Thomas; B. Iung

Abstract: Today, a new role for maintenance exists to enhance the eco-efficiency of the product life cycle. The concept of "life cycle maintenance" emerged to stress this role leading to push, at the manufacturing stage, an innovative culture wherein maintenance activities become of equal importance to actual production activities. This equivalence requires mainly considering the integration of the maintenance and production strategy planning for developing opportunistic maintenance task keeping conjointly the product - production - equipment performances. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for integrating maintenance and production planning. The approach uses the "odds algorithm" and is based upon the theory of optimal stopping. The objective is to select, among all the production stops already planned, those which will be optimal to develop maintenance tasks keeping the expected product conditions. It uses criteria such as component performance and component reliability. An approach evaluation is shown on a practical example.

Keywords: opportunist maintenance,production,decision-making,odds algorithm

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00006

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 30-35

Authors: Efrain Alcorta Garcia; Felix Rafael Segundo Sevilla; Jose Ramon Vega Galaz

Abstract: This work is concerning with the problem of determinate if a fault has been originated in a subsystem of a electric network or in somewhere else. This problem is motivated for the legal aspect related to co-generation systems. To solve the problem an approach based on analytical redundancy is proposed. An electrical part of a co-generation system is used to show (via simulations) the success of the proposed approach.

Keywords: fault detection,redundancy,observers,power systems,co-generation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00030

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 176-181

Authors: Efrain Alcorta Garcia

Abstract: The problem of threshold selection for fault detection in nonlinear systems is considered. For the linear case the existing result requires of factorization of transfer function from perturbations to the output. In the nonlinear case a different approach is proposed in this work. Using ideas based on the concept of uniform ultimate boundedness a procedure to construct a residual generation is considered. The residual obtained is defined in such a way that a corresponding threshold can be defined in a natural form, in fact, as term in the residual equation. The proposed threshold can reduce the size of detectable faults and in this way the result is comparable to the existing for linear systems. The benefits of the approach are discussed.

Keywords: fault size,fault detection and isolation,observers,sliding mode

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00029

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 171-175

Authors: F. W. Bruns; H.-H. Erbe; D. Muller; F. M. Schaf; C. E. Pereira; C. L. Reichert; F. Campana; I. A. Krakheche

Abstract: Research results of improving remote collaboration are presented. The results are based on a new concept of mixed reality. It is capable of to train collaborative work over remote sites. The collaborative environment makes use of the system named deriveSERVER, which has been developed by the Artec Research Center (University of Bremen). It is extended to allow the integration with remote hardware. Remote experiments are used to enhance lessons in SENAI-RS, a vocational education institution in southern Brazil, enabling the development of collaborative projects among students at different sites.

Keywords: mixed reality,collaborative work,learning environments,remote experiments,energy interfaces,distributed workspaces,CAVE

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00019

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 112-117

Authors: G. Jimenez; U. Leon

Abstract: Small and medium enterprises (SME's) have similar characteristics in developing countries. They have facilities for their administration but limited resources in manufacturing technology. In an environment in which market dynamics and production patterns are changing, enterprises try to improve their performance related to the production velocity of manufactured items with reduced costs in their operations. Under this scenario, SMEs need low cost manufacturing automation in order to be able to compete. This paper describes an architecture that allows the integration of engineering applications on a network, with emphasis in machining functions. The proposed approach is based on the Internet Communications Engine (ICE) technology for machining applications integration.

Keywords: distributed environments,machining operations,small and medium enterprises

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00009

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 48-52

Authors: G. Jimenez

Abstract: A low-cost alternative to software development in many domains is the construction of software family infrastructures. Instead of developing one system at a time, the software families approach focuses on creating an infrastructure of software components and configuration tools to construct application systems from a specification. The approach to implement software families for constructing component-based CNC and systems has been demonstrated. However, as any other system, software family infrastructures need to be evolved to add new components or constraints to the infrastructure. This paper presents an approach for software family infrastructure evolution and its demonstration in an infrastructure for configuring a software family of CNC systems.

Keywords: software family evolution,software families,CNC systems,low cost implementation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00010

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 53-58

Authors: Galdenoro Botura Junior; Marilza A. de Lemos; Marcio A. Marques

Abstract: This work presents challenges and solutions for the teaching and learning of automation applied to integrated manufacturing by means of a methodological approach based on techniques, tools and industrial equipment directly applicable in the industry. The approach was implemented in a control and automation engineering course divided into expositive and laboratory classes. Since the success of the approach is mainly from the practical activities, the article focus more on activities developed in laboratory than theorical classes.

Keywords: factory automation,education,robotic,flexible manufacturing system,programmable logic controllers

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00017

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 101-105

Authors: Garetti Marco; Macchi Marco; Terzi Sergio; Fumagalli Luca

Abstract: The E-Maintenance paradigm has potential to impact technical, environmental, personnel, and market issues in the industrial and services maintenance sectors. To this concern, advances in MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems), in wireless technology and in custom microprocessors are giving the opportunity to produce so called "smart sensors" that will be capable to get automatically maintenance information from the shop floor equipment. Using this technology, self diagnosing and self healing systems could be developed. This will allow the design of totally new maintenance management systems, through integration with prognostics and CMMS (Computer Maintenance Management System) software. The analysis of the new maintenance business models that will emerge from this technology breakthrough is an interesting research topic that this paper intends to address.

Keywords: e-maintenance,maintenance business models,integrated maintenance systems,ICT for maintenance

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00008

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 42-47

Authors: Hamideh Afsarmanesh; Luis M. Camarinha-Matos; Simon S. Msanjila

Abstract: Provision of mechanisms, methodologies, and functionalities to support Virtual organization Breeding Environments (VBEs) requires proper understanding of their requirements, development of representative models, thorough identification of adequate operating principles, and design and development of facilitating ICT-based tools. Addressing these aspects requires innovative solutions which are now being tackled within the FP6-IP ECOLEAD project. This paper addresses the key results achieved in the project for the area of VBEs.

Keywords: virtual organization,virtual organization breeding environment,collaborative network,trust,value system,competency management,ontology engineering,negotiation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00033

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 199-206

Authors: Herwig Winkler; Michael Slamanig; Bernd Kaluza

Abstract: The successful execution of ramp-ups is imperative for the financial performance of companies. In 2004, almost 60 percent of all ramp-ups missed their economic targets. Currently, ramp-up costs are often insufficiently planned and controlled. This leads back to the fact that their drivers are opaque, and that methods and/or instruments supporting the planning and controlling of ramp-up costs are entirely missing. This contribution presents the requirements for a key metric system to improve the planning and control of ramp-up costs. Furthermore, we systematically demonstrate how this metric system can be built up by following a four step approach. Finally, also the benefits of using the key metric system are investigated.

Keywords: cost reduction,low cost ramp-up,key metric system,planning,controlling

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00003

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 7-11

Authors: Isai Roman-Ballesteros; Carlos F. Pfeiffer

Abstract: In this paper we present the application of a framework that gives the bases to model necessary behaviors and functions of robotic agents for surveillance, that can be used in the implementation of a Robotic surveillance system. The framework includes a formal dfinition of Surveillance, a hierarchy of alarm events, a model of the surveillance environment using a 2 dimension space tessellation, a definition of sensors and surveillance agents, a model of the interactions among the agents, and formal definitions of different kinds of surveillance patrolling. The framework is applied to a case of study for a surveillance system for Indoors Fire Detection, using a heterogeneous sensor platform. The relevant surveillance events are identified and formally defined as discrete events for the experimental case. The definition is mapped to a Petri Net that manages the events to detect possible alarm states. Experimental setup, implementation and conclusions about the case of study are shown.

Keywords: robotics,surveillance,fire detection

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00038

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 231-236

Authors: J. E. Acosta C.; F. Sastron B.

Abstract: A method is presented to abstract the information required by the production shop floor control computer system to coordinate material flow and part processing. An analysis is given covering aspects identified as relevant for process modeling and automation, such as granularity degree, life cycle, BOM/route/process integration and object oriented model reference. Particularities of production system are presented in a graph model and interpretable by computer applications. Use of model based control is among the concepts used to increase the system software reusability. The proposed solution simplifies the production system (enterprise) modeling process and improves system software reusability among other characteristics.

Keywords: process automation,production control,process models,model based control application,enterprise modelling

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00004

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 12-17

Authors: Jaime Campos

Abstract: Ontology plays important role in knowledge sharing, reuse, and communication. Repository ontology is usually the first step in the development of an intelligent decision support system. This paper first briefly reviews the literature in the area and then presents the ontologies for condition monitoring and maintenance. A short description of the software application and user interface ontologies is presented. The focus of this work is the repository ontology for the stated purpose. It shows the data structure and information needed for the maintenance management of the industrial assets with its objects, attributes and relationships. The methodology that has been used consists of different steps of defining the scope of the ontology followed by the consideration of using existing ontologies. It is based on the ontology-driven Information System theories and developed by Unified Modelling Language tool.

Keywords: maintenance engineering,monitoring,modelling,system design,ontology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00007

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 36-41

Authors: Jens Froese

Abstract: There are still wide gaps between theoretical approaches to capture, describe and manage business processes and accepted practical applications. The problem cannot be solved by consultants alone but must be internalized by the enterprise users in order to competently establish and maintain process automation. Originally being developed for IT-systems and production process automation, business process architecture and business process modelling has increasingly become an issue for the provision of services, a protagonist field being supply chain management. Seaports are important nodes in international supply chains and extremely heterogeneous, hosting enterprises of all sizes and a wide variety of administrations. To establish an architecture allowing for distinct views and to capture relevant processes is not only required to initiate automation, it is essential to allow the involved parties to understand each other and to identify common objectives. Within the research project "Effective Operations in Ports" (EFFORTS), co-funded by the European Commission, actors from specific ports all over Europe need to establish a common process platform. The CIMOSA concept was chosen to develop such a platform.

Keywords: architectures,business processes,CIMOSA,enterprise integration,functional chains,process control,process models

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00021

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 124-129

Authors: Joao Ferreira; Andre Carvalho; Joao Pimentel; Marco Guedes; Nuno Silva

Abstract: Designing and consequent assembly of a new vehicle is a complex process as it requires close coordination and inputs from a number of disciplines in developing a number of systems and sub-systems in the vehicle that should fit within the confined vehicle space, function and provide the customers an acceptable combination of all relevant vehicle attributes. Understanding how these processes interact and how they are aligned with other while they should support the tasks involved in the conception of a new vehicle at a minimum time and cost. The first step to achieve this goal is the Modeling Business Process using UML (industry standard language).

Keywords: automobile design,modeling,UML-profile

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3182/20071002-MX-4-3906.00022

Conference: IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing

Location: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Start Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - End Date: Fri Oct 05 2007

Page Numbers: 130-134