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Papers by Bob Young
Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, 1995
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X9500300105 1995 3: 29 Concurrent Engineering Arturo Molina, Timothy lan Andr... more DOI: 10.1177/1063293X9500300105 1995 3: 29 Concurrent Engineering Arturo Molina, Timothy lan Andrew Ellis, Robert lan Marr Young and Robert Bell Modelling Manufacturing Capability to Support Concurrent Engineering ... Modelling Manufacturing Capability to Support ...
Data Science Journal, 2006
With the increasing importance of computer-based communication technologies, communication networ... more With the increasing importance of computer-based communication technologies, communication networks are becoming crucial in supply chain management. Given the objectives of the supply chain, supply chain management is situated at the intersection of different professional sectors, each of them with its own vocabulary, its own knowledge and rules. This paper provides a review of the main approaches to supply chain communications through the analysis of different ways of modelling a supply chain and the presentation of new semantic-based approaches that have been and are being developed to improve the quality of the information exchanges within the supply chain.
Prod., 2006
Actually the activities of overall design must be well orchestrated and integrated which has led ... more Actually the activities of overall design must be well orchestrated and integrated which has led to the evolution of the philosophy of Concurrent Engineering where the decisions about different aspects related to the product's life cycle, must be considered simultaneously. However, when the full breadth of design for manufacture is considered there are many aspects that must be addressed. This leads to the need for information systems to be able to support multiple views of a product, where each view provides the appropriate representation to support at least one manufacturing perspective. This research has investigated the potential of product model based systems to support multiple viewpoints in Design for Manufacture. The research has focused on the design for manufacture of plastic injection moulded products and has explored the particular viewpoints of mouldability, mould design and mould manufacturing. The approach taken has been to explore particular information structures to support each Design for Manufacture application. An experimental Product Model has been implemented using an object-oriented database.
International Journal of Production Research, 2011
Problems related to knowledge sharing in design and manufacture, for supporting automated decisio... more Problems related to knowledge sharing in design and manufacture, for supporting automated decision-making procedures, are associated with the inability to communicate the full meaning of concepts and their intent within and across system boundaries. To remedy these issues, it is important that the explicit structuring of semantics, i.e. meaning in computation form, is first performed and that these semantics become sharable across systems. This paper proposes a Common Logic-based ontological foundation as a basis for capturing the meaning of core feature-oriented design and manufacture concepts. This foundation serves as a semantic ground over which design and manufacture knowledge models can be configured in an integrity-driven way. The implications involved in the specification of the ontological foundation are discussed alongside the types of mechanisms that allow knowledge models to be configured. A test case scenario is then analysed in order to further support and verify the researched approach.
International Workshop on Enterprise Interoperability, 2015
Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020
Produto & Produção, 2008
Concurrent engineering is an important philosophy in achieving better time to market in new produ... more Concurrent engineering is an important philosophy in achieving better time to market in new product development. While the use of design teams is achieving some success there is a need for modern software tools which support the design process to be radically improved. This paper provides a contribution in the area of decision support systems based on the use of product and manufacturing models to provide appropriate information. Typically design for manufacture systems provide only support for one process e.g. design for assembly, design for machining. However, when the full breadth of design for manufacture is considered there are many aspects which must be addressed. This leads to the need for information systems to be able to support multiple views of a product, where each view provides the appropriate representation to support one manufacturing perspective. This paper discusses the requirements of a reasoning system which is able to provide multiple views of a product and which...
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 1994
Abstract A novel approach to the development of a manufacturing information model, which forms pa... more Abstract A novel approach to the development of a manufacturing information model, which forms part of a CAE system for simultaneous engineering is presented. The combined use of reference models (CIM-OSA and RM-ODP), an object oriented methodology (Booch), a function modelling method (IDEFO), an information modelling language (EXPRESS). and computer tools is reported. The importance of using reference models for the definition, design implementation of CAE systems is outlined. Modelling methodologies that effectively map the specification of the reference models are described and theeir usage is explained.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2003
Concurrent engineering is an important philosophy in achieving better time to market in new produ... more Concurrent engineering is an important philosophy in achieving better time to market in new product development. While the use of design teams is achieving some success there is a need for modem software tools which support the design process to be radically improved. This paper provides a contribution in the area of decision support systems based on the use of product and manufacturing models to provide appropriate information. Typically design for manufacture systems provide only support for one process e.g. design for assembly, design for machining. However, when the full breadth of design for manufacture is considered there are many aspects which must be addressed. This leads to the need for information systems to be able to support multiple views of a product, where each view provides the appropriate representation to support one manufacturing perspective. This paper discusses the requirements of a reasoning system which is able to provide multiple views of a product and which can provide mechanisms to move from one viewpoint to another. The research focuses on injection moulding and considers viewpoints such as product functionality, product mouldability, mould design clements and mould manufacturing viewpoints. A case study product is discussed to illustrate the approach being used.
E-Business and Virtual Enterprises, 2001
International Journal of Agile Management Systems, 1999
An integrated, exchangeable, sharable and distributed information environment is one of the cruci... more An integrated, exchangeable, sharable and distributed information environment is one of the crucial factors to ensure the competitive advantage of a virtual enterprise. A manufacturing model that describes an enterprise’s manufacturing capability information is an important part of such a distributed information infrastructure. This paper focuses on the definition of an object oriented manufacturing data model that can provide a consistent data structure for the construction of a manufacturing model for a virtual enterprise. The methodology that is employed to carry out the analysis and design of an object oriented manufacturing data model complies with the open distributed processing reference model. Unified modelling language (UML) class diagrams have been employed to represent the object oriented manufacturing data model with links to relevant ISO standards, which can be instantiated to generate a virtual, global manufacturing model. An experimental software system has been devel...
Enterprise Interoperability II
... model, a source and repository of all product related information, has received the most eхte... more ... model, a source and repository of all product related information, has received the most eхtensive range of research input (Lee et al., 2006), whilst the area of manufacturing information organisation has also received substantial research attention (MOSES, 1992; Molina et al ...
ABSTRACT The design activity involves many decisions, which must be made based on a wide range of... more ABSTRACT The design activity involves many decisions, which must be made based on a wide range of information and knowledge. Product models approaches have been applied to support cooperation across product development within a Concurrent Engineering environ ment. However, to support design decisions with quality and more consistently, additional types of informat ion and knowledge need to be captured within this approach. This work presents an additional information model, named Product Range Model, to capture design constraints supporting the design decision making process with quality information. The concept of Interaction Elements is presented as a mean to capture design criteria and knowledge, and to support product functional design. An object-oriented approach has been applied providing a relat ively simp le structure to deal with the capture of constraints, as well as allo wing the reuse of these elements for different design criteria. The work has been based on injection mould tool to explore the ideas developed.
In today's world there is ever increasing pressure to bring products to market in a quicker a... more In today's world there is ever increasing pressure to bring products to market in a quicker and more time- ly fashion that fulfill customers' needs and are delivered on budget. One way to aid such acceleration of the design and development process is to effectively share and reuse manufacturing knowledge in an ef- fort to bring about product based interoperability. This paper reports upon the work being carried out in the SAMULET research programme that addresses such factors. It focuses upon (i) how the sources of in- formation and knowledge were recognized, (ii) the definition and categorisation of knowledge and (iii) the potential routes for the reuse of manufacturing knowledge. The research approach is currently being developed to help augment a supportive information and knowledge sharing environment and bring about a more integrated development process within a high tech aerospace company.
Enterprise Interoperability IV, 2010
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2005
Object-oriented modelling has become an established technique for product and manufacturing knowl... more Object-oriented modelling has become an established technique for product and manufacturing knowledge representation. Various models offering generalised classes and class hierarchies have been proposed for this purpose. Additional bespoke classes are however typically required for specific domain representations. This causes problems when knowledge needs to be shared between domains using different models to describe common entities. These issues are especially complex when several systems are involved. For example, a designer accessing product, manufacturing, and third party systems may face multiple definitions of components, facilities and processes. This paper proposes a model that addresses some of these issues. The proposed model can describe manufacturing knowledge without additional bespoke classes. The detailed semantics of the model are based on recent work on ontologies, notably the Process Specification Language (PSL). Whilst PSL provides detailed semantics, it is not inherently object-oriented. The integration of PSL with object-oriented modelling methods is therefore the principle contribution of this work.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, 2014
The development and utilisation of flexible, reconfigurable Global Production Network organisatio... more The development and utilisation of flexible, reconfigurable Global Production Network organisations presents issues for the sharing and reuse of information and knowledge between systems and domains. The research approach put forward in this paper posits that manufacturing reference ontologies can provide the necessary underlying flexibility in a semantic-base to support interoperability. Moreover for that to be of real value to industry it needs to be commonly applicable across the breadth of manufacturing business and therefore be offered as a standard.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2014
Advances in Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering
Abstract: The integration of product design and manufacture has been pursued and advanced for ove... more Abstract: The integration of product design and manufacture has been pursued and advanced for over 20 years. Further advances continue to be pursued in the knowledge that success can lead to significant competitive advantage. This paper provides a contribution to the view ...
Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century, 1998
Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, 1995
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X9500300105 1995 3: 29 Concurrent Engineering Arturo Molina, Timothy lan Andr... more DOI: 10.1177/1063293X9500300105 1995 3: 29 Concurrent Engineering Arturo Molina, Timothy lan Andrew Ellis, Robert lan Marr Young and Robert Bell Modelling Manufacturing Capability to Support Concurrent Engineering ... Modelling Manufacturing Capability to Support ...
Data Science Journal, 2006
With the increasing importance of computer-based communication technologies, communication networ... more With the increasing importance of computer-based communication technologies, communication networks are becoming crucial in supply chain management. Given the objectives of the supply chain, supply chain management is situated at the intersection of different professional sectors, each of them with its own vocabulary, its own knowledge and rules. This paper provides a review of the main approaches to supply chain communications through the analysis of different ways of modelling a supply chain and the presentation of new semantic-based approaches that have been and are being developed to improve the quality of the information exchanges within the supply chain.
Prod., 2006
Actually the activities of overall design must be well orchestrated and integrated which has led ... more Actually the activities of overall design must be well orchestrated and integrated which has led to the evolution of the philosophy of Concurrent Engineering where the decisions about different aspects related to the product's life cycle, must be considered simultaneously. However, when the full breadth of design for manufacture is considered there are many aspects that must be addressed. This leads to the need for information systems to be able to support multiple views of a product, where each view provides the appropriate representation to support at least one manufacturing perspective. This research has investigated the potential of product model based systems to support multiple viewpoints in Design for Manufacture. The research has focused on the design for manufacture of plastic injection moulded products and has explored the particular viewpoints of mouldability, mould design and mould manufacturing. The approach taken has been to explore particular information structures to support each Design for Manufacture application. An experimental Product Model has been implemented using an object-oriented database.
International Journal of Production Research, 2011
Problems related to knowledge sharing in design and manufacture, for supporting automated decisio... more Problems related to knowledge sharing in design and manufacture, for supporting automated decision-making procedures, are associated with the inability to communicate the full meaning of concepts and their intent within and across system boundaries. To remedy these issues, it is important that the explicit structuring of semantics, i.e. meaning in computation form, is first performed and that these semantics become sharable across systems. This paper proposes a Common Logic-based ontological foundation as a basis for capturing the meaning of core feature-oriented design and manufacture concepts. This foundation serves as a semantic ground over which design and manufacture knowledge models can be configured in an integrity-driven way. The implications involved in the specification of the ontological foundation are discussed alongside the types of mechanisms that allow knowledge models to be configured. A test case scenario is then analysed in order to further support and verify the researched approach.
International Workshop on Enterprise Interoperability, 2015
Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020
Produto & Produção, 2008
Concurrent engineering is an important philosophy in achieving better time to market in new produ... more Concurrent engineering is an important philosophy in achieving better time to market in new product development. While the use of design teams is achieving some success there is a need for modern software tools which support the design process to be radically improved. This paper provides a contribution in the area of decision support systems based on the use of product and manufacturing models to provide appropriate information. Typically design for manufacture systems provide only support for one process e.g. design for assembly, design for machining. However, when the full breadth of design for manufacture is considered there are many aspects which must be addressed. This leads to the need for information systems to be able to support multiple views of a product, where each view provides the appropriate representation to support one manufacturing perspective. This paper discusses the requirements of a reasoning system which is able to provide multiple views of a product and which...
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 1994
Abstract A novel approach to the development of a manufacturing information model, which forms pa... more Abstract A novel approach to the development of a manufacturing information model, which forms part of a CAE system for simultaneous engineering is presented. The combined use of reference models (CIM-OSA and RM-ODP), an object oriented methodology (Booch), a function modelling method (IDEFO), an information modelling language (EXPRESS). and computer tools is reported. The importance of using reference models for the definition, design implementation of CAE systems is outlined. Modelling methodologies that effectively map the specification of the reference models are described and theeir usage is explained.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2003
Concurrent engineering is an important philosophy in achieving better time to market in new produ... more Concurrent engineering is an important philosophy in achieving better time to market in new product development. While the use of design teams is achieving some success there is a need for modem software tools which support the design process to be radically improved. This paper provides a contribution in the area of decision support systems based on the use of product and manufacturing models to provide appropriate information. Typically design for manufacture systems provide only support for one process e.g. design for assembly, design for machining. However, when the full breadth of design for manufacture is considered there are many aspects which must be addressed. This leads to the need for information systems to be able to support multiple views of a product, where each view provides the appropriate representation to support one manufacturing perspective. This paper discusses the requirements of a reasoning system which is able to provide multiple views of a product and which can provide mechanisms to move from one viewpoint to another. The research focuses on injection moulding and considers viewpoints such as product functionality, product mouldability, mould design clements and mould manufacturing viewpoints. A case study product is discussed to illustrate the approach being used.
E-Business and Virtual Enterprises, 2001
International Journal of Agile Management Systems, 1999
An integrated, exchangeable, sharable and distributed information environment is one of the cruci... more An integrated, exchangeable, sharable and distributed information environment is one of the crucial factors to ensure the competitive advantage of a virtual enterprise. A manufacturing model that describes an enterprise’s manufacturing capability information is an important part of such a distributed information infrastructure. This paper focuses on the definition of an object oriented manufacturing data model that can provide a consistent data structure for the construction of a manufacturing model for a virtual enterprise. The methodology that is employed to carry out the analysis and design of an object oriented manufacturing data model complies with the open distributed processing reference model. Unified modelling language (UML) class diagrams have been employed to represent the object oriented manufacturing data model with links to relevant ISO standards, which can be instantiated to generate a virtual, global manufacturing model. An experimental software system has been devel...
Enterprise Interoperability II
... model, a source and repository of all product related information, has received the most eхte... more ... model, a source and repository of all product related information, has received the most eхtensive range of research input (Lee et al., 2006), whilst the area of manufacturing information organisation has also received substantial research attention (MOSES, 1992; Molina et al ...
ABSTRACT The design activity involves many decisions, which must be made based on a wide range of... more ABSTRACT The design activity involves many decisions, which must be made based on a wide range of information and knowledge. Product models approaches have been applied to support cooperation across product development within a Concurrent Engineering environ ment. However, to support design decisions with quality and more consistently, additional types of informat ion and knowledge need to be captured within this approach. This work presents an additional information model, named Product Range Model, to capture design constraints supporting the design decision making process with quality information. The concept of Interaction Elements is presented as a mean to capture design criteria and knowledge, and to support product functional design. An object-oriented approach has been applied providing a relat ively simp le structure to deal with the capture of constraints, as well as allo wing the reuse of these elements for different design criteria. The work has been based on injection mould tool to explore the ideas developed.
In today's world there is ever increasing pressure to bring products to market in a quicker a... more In today's world there is ever increasing pressure to bring products to market in a quicker and more time- ly fashion that fulfill customers' needs and are delivered on budget. One way to aid such acceleration of the design and development process is to effectively share and reuse manufacturing knowledge in an ef- fort to bring about product based interoperability. This paper reports upon the work being carried out in the SAMULET research programme that addresses such factors. It focuses upon (i) how the sources of in- formation and knowledge were recognized, (ii) the definition and categorisation of knowledge and (iii) the potential routes for the reuse of manufacturing knowledge. The research approach is currently being developed to help augment a supportive information and knowledge sharing environment and bring about a more integrated development process within a high tech aerospace company.
Enterprise Interoperability IV, 2010
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2005
Object-oriented modelling has become an established technique for product and manufacturing knowl... more Object-oriented modelling has become an established technique for product and manufacturing knowledge representation. Various models offering generalised classes and class hierarchies have been proposed for this purpose. Additional bespoke classes are however typically required for specific domain representations. This causes problems when knowledge needs to be shared between domains using different models to describe common entities. These issues are especially complex when several systems are involved. For example, a designer accessing product, manufacturing, and third party systems may face multiple definitions of components, facilities and processes. This paper proposes a model that addresses some of these issues. The proposed model can describe manufacturing knowledge without additional bespoke classes. The detailed semantics of the model are based on recent work on ontologies, notably the Process Specification Language (PSL). Whilst PSL provides detailed semantics, it is not inherently object-oriented. The integration of PSL with object-oriented modelling methods is therefore the principle contribution of this work.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, 2014
The development and utilisation of flexible, reconfigurable Global Production Network organisatio... more The development and utilisation of flexible, reconfigurable Global Production Network organisations presents issues for the sharing and reuse of information and knowledge between systems and domains. The research approach put forward in this paper posits that manufacturing reference ontologies can provide the necessary underlying flexibility in a semantic-base to support interoperability. Moreover for that to be of real value to industry it needs to be commonly applicable across the breadth of manufacturing business and therefore be offered as a standard.
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2014
Advances in Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering
Abstract: The integration of product design and manufacture has been pursued and advanced for ove... more Abstract: The integration of product design and manufacture has been pursued and advanced for over 20 years. Further advances continue to be pursued in the knowledge that success can lead to significant competitive advantage. This paper provides a contribution to the view ...
Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century, 1998