ISPE Newsletter 01-12-2012

Volume 1, Issue 1

CE2013 Melbourne Australia Concurrent Engineering (CE), as a

concept, initiates processes with

the goal to improve product quali-

ty, production efficiency and overall

customer satisfaction. The defini-

tion of a product has evolved from

design, manufacturing and supply-

ing goods only, to providing goods

with added value, to eventually

promoting a complete service busi-

ness strategy. Services are increas-

ingly important to the economy:

the service industry has grown

significantly, and even companies

that fall outside the traditional ser-

vice industry are more and more

reliant on service-based business.

The product support service covers

development, operations and de-

commissioning. For example, in

Japan, USA, Germany and Russia

more than 60% of the GDP is due

to service-based activities. The 20th

ISPE International Conference on

Concurrent Engineering will carry

the theme Product and Service

Engineering in a Dynamic World.

We invite papers that present re-

search results, new concepts and

insights that cover the conference

topics.

Full papers will be peer reviewed

and selected high quality papers

will be recommended to journals

for publication.

Papers are invited that present

research results, new concepts and

insights that cover the conference

topics or more specifically the

theme of this conference.

We are looking forward to meeting

you at the 20th ISPE International

Conference on Concurrent Engi-

neering on 2 – 6 September 2013

in Melbourne, Australia.

International Society for Productivity Enhancement http://www.ispe-org.net

Contact

President

Prof. Ricky Curran

Address

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

E-mail

R.Curran@tudelft.nl

General Secretary

Prof. Georg Rock

Address

Trier University of Ap-plied Sciences, Germany

E-mail

G.Rock@inf.fh-trier.de

Administrative

Supporters

Ms. Xiaojia Zhao

Mr. Wim Verhagen

Address

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

E-mail

X.Zhao-1@tudelft.nl

W.J.C.Verhagen@tudelft

.nl

Product and Service Engineering in a

Dynamic World

Join us for the

20th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent

Engineering in 2013

ISPE Newsletter 01-12-2012

Volume 1, Issue 1

CE2012 Trier Germany From the 3rd to the 7th of Sept

2012, the 19th ISPE International

Conference on Concurrent Engi-

neering was held in Trier, Germa-

ny. With 5 keynotes, 100 regis-

tered authors and 99 papers in-

cluded into the proceedings fol-

lowing a double-blind review pro-

cedure, the program was filled

with academically substantive

content. Moreover, 2 Journalists

followed this event.

Besides author presentations, the

conference was enriched by three

keynote speakers. On Monday the

3rd, Professor Ricky Curran from

Delft University of Technology

held a keynote speech about val-

ue engineering related to current

state-of-art concurrent engineer-

ing development. Extensive ex-

amples from aerospace industry

are shown vividly.

On Tuesday, Dr. Nicolas Figay,

from EADS (Paris), spoke about

the strategy of governance of

Product Lifecycle Management

(PLM). The way the community

governs the standards in order to

prepare and construct required

interoperability for used PLM solu-

tion is explained.

Dr. Bryan Moser (University of

Tokyo, Japan) discussed the de-

sign of complex engineering lever-

aging simulation of Socio-

Technical Systems on Wednesday.

On the same day, Dr. Zlakto Pen-

zar , senior expert mechanic sim-

ulation from continental AG,

Frankfurt gave the keynote about

practical development using con-

current engineering.

Dr. Tomas Beck and Rolf klamann

also presented their extraordi-

nary research on system engi-

neering tools and electromobility

simulations respectively.

The keynote speeches are availa-

ble for download on the CE 2012

website.The proceedings have

been published as part of the Ad-

vanced Concurrent Engineering

book series, and is accessible

through the Springer website.

The ISPE Executive Board would

like to thank all the participants,

for making possible of this excel-

lent event.

International Society for Productivity Enhancement http://www.ispe-org.net

Contact

President

Prof. Ricky Curran

Address

Delft University of Technology, The Ne-therlands

E-mail

R.Curran@tudelft.nl

General Secretary

Prof. Georg Rock

Address

Trier University of Ap-plied Sciences, Germa-ny

E-mail

G.Rock@inf.fh-trier.de

Administrative

Supporters

Ms. Xiaojia Zhao

Mr. Wim Verhagen

Address

Delft University of Technology, The Ne-therlands

E-mail

X.Zhao-1@tudelft.nl

W.J.C.Verhagen@tudelf

t.nl

ISPE Newsletter

01-12-2012

Volume 1, Issue 1

ISPE New Website ISPE New Website will be launched

soon. It is designed with a fresh new

look and user-friendly navigation, up-

dated with latest information about

ISPE progress.

The website contains ISPE Inc. status

update, recent news, previous confer-

ences, publications, associated jour-

nals, and Newsletters, etc. It provides

a perfect platform for researchers,

academic institutions, universities and

industrial research groups to exchange

innovative ideas and build extensive

collaborations. Research filed on Con-

current Engineering, topics about Sys-

tem engineering, Service engineering,

Product Life Cycle Management, Prod-

uct cost, Knowledge management, etc.

will be elaborated. Researchers, who

are interested in ISPE and collabora-

tive research project, could obtain

newsletters from the new site by reg-

istration. In addition, the ISPE forum

will supply an interactive environment

for board members and researchers.

International Society for Productivity Enhancement, http://www.ispe-org.net

ISPE Newsletter

Contact

President

Prof. Ricky Curran

Address

Delft University of Tech-nology, The Netherlands

E-mail

R.Curran@tudelft.nl

General Secretary

Prof. Georg Rock

Address

Trier University of Ap-plied Sciences, Germany

E-mail

G.Rock@inf.fh-trier.de

Administrative

Supporters

Ms. Xiaojia Zhao

Mr. Wim Verhagen

Address

Delft University of Tech-nology, The Netherlands

E-mail

X.Zhao-1@tudelft.nl

W.J.C.Verhagen@tudelft

.nl

Are you interested of starting a

forum? Yes!

ISPE website is available for

you to build forums. Forums

could be established based on

countries as well as subjects.

You will start a journey of dis-

covering a strong and support-

ive crowds around your re-

search filed. You will also step

into new areas which you are

interested.

As the initial basis, forums can

be developed further to Chap-

ters. During the ISPE Executive

Board Meeting performed at

the Concurrent Engineering

conference in Trier, the devel-

opment of Chapters as a pro-

spective means of contact for

researchers is proposed. Chap-

ters are established based on

countries, with the function of

collaborating local researchers,

engineering consortium, indus-

tries on the area of concurrent

engineering. Workshops and

general meetings will be ar-

ranged by chapters to focus on

the state of art on technical

progress and industrial applica-

tions.

The chapters will extend the

collaboration in more depth.

ISPE welcome any potential

collaborations.

We gladly invite any interested

researcher, university chair or

research programme to join us

of building forums and chap-

ters. Proposal is invited to sub-

mit towards the ISPE General

Secretary. Please include your

contact details, research field,

topic, objectives and basic

planning of your Chapter pro-

ject into your Proposals. ISPE

will coordinate the inclusion into

the corporation development,

subject to your final approval.

Starting a forum?

ISPE Newsletter

01-12-2012

Volume 1, Issue 1

The International Society for

Productivity Enhancement

(ISPE) was founded in 1984 in

the USA with the goal to sup-

port and improve the interna-

tional exchange of ideas and

scientific knowledge in the field

of technological development

and application.

ISPE was registered as a non-

for-profit organization in New

York in 2005. It is officially

called ISPE, Inc. since then. The

main objective of ISPE, Inc. is

to transfer and integrate new

knowledge with relevant exist-

ing or new technology and im-

prove strategies and resources

to enhance productivity and

competitiveness of current

product and service producers

and thereby improve the quality

of the life. ISPE, Inc. has been

promoting research, education,

and application by organizing

conferences and other profes-

sional activities.

The main aim of ISPE, Inc. is to

foster the cross-fertilization of

technology, strategy, organiza-

tion and resources, in order to

enhance productivity, competi-

tive advantage and improve

general quality of life. ISPE,

Inc. embraces both the tradi-

tional and non-traditional fields

of engineering. In addition,

equal emphasis is placed on the

cross-fertilization of emerging

innovative technologies to en-

hance productivity and their

effective utilization of re-

sources.

For more information on ISPE,

Inc., visit our website:

www.ispe-org.net

About ISPE, Inc.

International Society for Productivity Enhancement, http://www.ispe-org.net

ISPE Newsletter

ISPE, Inc. Board members

President:

Prof. Ricky Curran

Delft University of Technology,

The Netherlands

Vice President:

Prof. Mike Sobolewski

TTU, Texas, USA

General Secretary:

Prof. Georg Rock

Trier University of Applied Sci-

ence Trier, Germany

Treasurer:

Dr. Essam Shehab

Cranfield University, UK

Members:

Prof. Amy Trappey

NTUT, Taiwan

Assoc Prof. Cees Bil

RMIT University, Australia

Mr.Eric Simmon

NIST, USA

Dr. Geilson Loureiro

INPE, Brazil

Prof. John Cha

Beijing Jiaotong University,

China

Prof. John Mo

RMIT University, Australia

Dr. Josip Stjepandic

PROSTEP AG, Germany

Prof. Jerzy Pokojsjki

SIMR, Poland

Assoc Prof. Kazuo Hiekata

the University of Tokyo, Japan

Prof. Parisa Ghodous

LIRiS, CRNS, France

Prof. Ricardo Gonçalves

UNIVOVA, Portugal

Prof. Shuo-Yan Chou

Peking University, China

Advisory Members to the

Executive Board:

Dr. Ahmed Al-Ashaab

Cranfield University, UK

Dr. Nel Wognum

Wageningen University, The

Netherlands

Prof. Rajkumar Roy

Cranfield University, UK

Prof. Shuichi Fukuda S t a n f o r d

University, USA

ISPE Administrative

Support:

Ms. Xiaojia Zhao Delft Uni-

versity of Technology, the

Netherlands

Mr. Wim Verhagen Delft Uni-

versity of Technology, the

Netherlands

Contact

President

Prof. Ricky Curran

Address

Delft University of Tech-nology, The Netherlands

E-mail

R.Curran@tudelft.nl

General Secretary

Prof. Georg Rock

Address

Trier University of Ap-plied Sciences, Germany

E-mail

G.Rock@inf.fh-trier.de

Administrative

Supporters

Ms. Xiaojia Zhao

Mr. Wim Verhagen

Address

Delft University of Tech-nology, The Netherlands

E-mail

X.Zhao-1@tudelft.nl

W.J.C.Verhagen@tudelft

.nl