Publications related to Product life-cycle management (marketing)

Utilizing additive manufacturing and mass customization under capacity constraints

Ralf Seifert, Anna Timonina-Farkas, Rachel Agnès Laetitia Rosemonde Marie Lacroix

Additive manufacturing (AM), originally used for prototyping, is increasingly adopted for custom final part production across different industries. However, printing speed and production volume are two barriers for the adoption of AM for product customizat ...

2023

A dynamic scheduling tool and a methodology for creating digital twin of manufacturing systems for achieving Zero Defect Manufacturing

Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Nowadays manufacturing environment is highly volatile and rapidly changing as the need of products is increasing exponentially, due to the fact that Product Life Cycle is shortened and therefore more products are required to be manufactured or remanufactur ...

EPFL2021

Reactions of pyrrole, imidazole, and pyrazole with ozone: kinetics and mechanisms

Urs von Gunten, Peter Rudolf Tentscher, Sung Eun Lim

Five-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds (azoles) belong to potential moieties in complex structures where transformations during ozonation can occur. This study focused on the azole-ozone chemistry of pyrrole, imidazole, and pyrazole as mo ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Semantic Model-Driven PLM Data Interoperability: An Application for Aircraft Ground Functional Testing with Eco-Design Criteria

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Damiano Nunzio Arena

The latest developments in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Product Life-Cycle Management (PLM) are playing a role in the evolution of the aeronautical industry. Despite the reluctance of this domain to accept the introduction of technology leaps ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

A Scheduling Tool for Achieving Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM): A Conceptual Framework

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Contemporary manufacturing landscape has changed and has become highly volatile and demanding. Product Life Cycle has significantly decreased because of the consumers' need for personalized products in shorter period of time. This need forced the manufactu ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN2018

Diving into the dynamics of product evolution : analyzing technological discontinuities during the era of incremental change and cognitive convergence on a dominant design

Olivier Waeber

Three distinct stages describe the technological evolution of a product over time: ferment, convergence on a dominant design and an era of incremental change. Until recently, the era of incremental change has been characterized as stable and one that invol ...

EPFL2017

Stochastic impulse control with regime-switching dynamics

Yaroslav Melnyk

Optimal product management problems with multiple product generations in continuous time lead to the consideration of dynamic optimal control problems that feature both intervention costs and partially controlled regime shifts. We therefore investigate and ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Catalytic Asymmetric Tandem Reaction of Tertiary Enamides: Expeditious Synthesis of Pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinoline Alkaloid Derivatives

Jieping Zhu

Reported is a new and efficient strategy for rapid construction of the chiral tetrahydropyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolin-3(2H)-one structure from unique tertiary enamide synthons. A Cu(OTf)2/chiral Pybox complex catalyzes the intramolecular enantioselective addit ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Closed-Loop Lifecycle Management of Service and Product in the Internet of Things: Semantic Framework for Knowledge Integration

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Min-Jung Yoo

This paper describes our conceptual framework of closed-loop lifecycle information sharing for product-service in the Internet of Things (IoT). The framework is based on the ontology model of product-service and a type of IoT message standard, Open Messagi ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Ontologies in the context of product lifecycle management: state of the art literature review

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Soumaya El Kadiri

The use of ontologies in the context of product lifecycle management (PLM) is gaining importance and popularity, while at the same time it generates a lot of controversy in discussions within scientific and engineering communities. Yet, what is ontology? W ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Degradation mode and criticality analysis based on product usage data

Paul Xirouchakis, Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jongho Shin

Over the last decade, a rapid development of internet, wireless mobile telecommunication, and product identification technologies make whole product life cycle visible and controllable, which can improve several operational issues over the whole product li ...

Springer London Ltd2015

Towards Seamless Continuation of Knowledge in Product Lifecycle Management

Apostolos Perdikakis

The current ICT for manufacturing landscape is characterized by scattered data formats, tools and processes dedicated to different phases in the product lifecycle. Due to the diversity of tools and data formats, manufacturing struggles to cope with new tre ...

EPFL2015

A Methodology for Holistic Lifecycle Approach as Decision Support System for Closed-loop Lifecycle Management

Fatih Karakoyun

Sustainability of their products and practices provides companies with a competitive set of methods and tools to maintain, improve and expand customer and supplier relationships and to ensure access to strategic markets. Companies pay a lot of attention to ...

EPFL2015

Proposal of a Closed Loop Framework for the Improvement of Industrial Systems' Life Cycle Performances: Experiences from the LinkedDesign Project

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Ana Milicic

The context where European manufacturers of industrial systems operate has dramatically changed over recent years: the pressure of emerging countries they have to face, policy makers' environmental laws and industrial companies' interests are pushing towar ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Enantioselective palladium(0)-catalyzed intramolecular cyclopropane functionalization: access to dihydroquinolones, dihydroisoquinolones and the BMS-791325 ring system

Nicolai Cramer, Tanguy Jean Daniel Saget, Pavel Alexandrovich Donets, Julia Pedroni

Taddol-based phosphoramidite ligands enable enantioselective palladium(0)-catalyzed C-H arylation of cyclopropanes. The cyclized products are obtained in high yields and enantioselectivities. The reported method provides efficient access to a broad range o ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Joint product assortment, inventory and price optimization to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

Ralf Seifert, Argyro Katsifou, Jean-Sébastien Tancrez

In this paper, we analyze the emerging retail practice of carrying a combined product assortment consisting of both regular "standard" products and more fashionable and short-lived "special" products. The purpose of this practice is to increase store traff ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Product relationships management enabler for concurrent engineering and product lifecycle management

Dimitrios Kyritsis

The current competitive industrial context requires more flexible, intelligent and compact product lifecycles, especially in the product development process where several lifecycle issues have to be considered, so as to deliver lifecycle oriented products. ...

Elsevier2013

Inventory Management with Working Capital Restrictions

Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila

Working capital restrictions can have disruptive effects on the coordination of the operations and finances of a company. Working capital restrictions may limit the inventory ordering power, reduce revenues, and increase the use of high premium debt. It ma ...

EPFL2013

Semantic technologies for engineering asset life cycle management

Dimitrios Kyritsis

The use of semantic technologies and ontologies is becoming more and more popular in engineering applications and particularly in product modelling. Still, the use is limited in academia and applications are of a small scale. In this paper we present the r ...

Taylor & Francis2013

Assessing the Comprehensiveness of Supply Chain Environmental Strategies

Ralf Seifert, Joana Maria Comas Marti

As environmental awareness grows, firms are expected to expand the scope of their environmental strategies beyond organisational boundaries and to address more comprehensively environmental issues in their supply chains and product life cycles. Drawing on ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013