Evaluation of Manufacturing Vision and Strategies for the Production of Military Combat Vehicles The Crusader Artillery System (2003) / Chapter Skim
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3. Crosscutting Issues
3. Crosscutting Issues
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To deal with such change, the automobile companies and manufacturers of earth-moving equipment, among others, have developed systems for managing extensive engineering changes. A change management system tracks engineering design changes to ensure that all members of the production team are provided with the most up-to-date design information for the system produced.
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The methods for presenting information to the human operators should be such that the cognitive overload associated with information bandwidth, scale, display size, symbols, signs, and signals is minimized. The technology for information display and visualization to support workstation operations should take advantage of human sensory systems by giving the users display alternatives for both input-output and information processing.
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Finally, the Crusader team may want to make use of existing virtual collaborative technologies through teleconferencing, telepresence, and other multimedia information systems, with particular emphasis on data interchange standards, information security, and manufacturing architecture elements when adopting Tnternet and Web services. Recommendation X: UDEP should aggressively adopt Bernet and Web services to communicate information, share data, and conduct strategic discussions in manufacturing project management, thereby reducing the costs of travel for face-to-face meetings.
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At the current prototype level, UDEP has embarked on a vision of information management that is very broad and yet seems to be operating synchronously without an overall integration philosophy. The committee believes that architecture for managing manufacturing information should be adopted.
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It may be possible to obtain realistic production data from experience with similar projects, such as the Abrams tank and the Bradley fighting vehicle. The committee believes that it may be A, possible to validate models of the production system for UDLP by running simulation experiments in real, virtual, and/or constructive environments and comparing the results.
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These problems can be minimized, if not eliminated, if the validation and verification strategies have the following characteristics: common data models across the system context, common information scaffolding processes for simulation input-output analysis; a common modeling and simulation user's manual; common strategies for modeling and simulation of information management; common standards for validating simulation; common performance metrics for the Crusader manufacturing environment; and specific application scenarios based on actual Crusader manufacturing information. Recommendation 10: UDEP should develop an integrated enterprise simulation mode} to support real-time control of all levels of manufacturing, Tom the manufacturing cell or factory floor to the globally distributed extended enterprise.
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