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Concurrent Engineering
Published in David M. Anderson, Design for Manufacturability, 2020
The solution is to rationalize product lines to eliminate or outsource “loser” products to free up valuable resources to help develop “winner” products. Rationalization not only improves product development immediately (because resources are freed up whenever a company turns down a high-overhead product), but it also will improve profits immediately by eliminating the money losing products. Effective methodologies for Product Line Rationalization are presented in Appendix A.
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Published in Mark E. Schaffer, Technology Transfer and East-West Relations, 2018
In innovation activity and technology-intensive products two points have been emphasised. On the one hand there is the aim of rationalisation of the manufacturing industry in order to save labour, raw materials and energy. But these achievements refer not only to the process of technology itself but also to increasing the value of the product.
Managing structural and dynamic complexity in supply chains: insights from four case studies
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2019
Pablo Fernández Campos, Paolo Trucco, Luisa Huaccho Huatuco
Variety reducing management practices are adopted to physically reduce the level of structural complexity that SC managers must cope with in two ways. The first is by aiding the firm focus on a narrower range of elements (e.g. products, customers, geographies, etc.) via rationalisation exercises. In Drinks, for example, the rationalisation of SKUs has become a standard part of every project concerned with the launch of a new product or product variant, thus helping the firm reduce and contain the complexity of its portfolio. The second is by establishing commonalities among these elements, thus reducing internal diversity while minimising the effect of this on the breadth of the firms’ businesses (for instance, by deploying platform teams that seek to define a common internal architecture of processes and tools for SC activities across businesses and geographies). This is the option undertaken by Auto, which rather than rationalising, aims to define standards and platforms that can then be leveraged by multiple products.
A literature review on the technologies of bonded hoses for marine applications
Published in Ships and Offshore Structures, 2022
Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Facheng Wang, Idris Ahmed Ja’e, Aaron Aboshio, Agbomerie Charles Odijie, Jianqiao Ye
One method of achieving sustainable fluid transfer is by the use of marine hoses in the offshore industry. By definition, marine bonded hoses are conduit-tubular structures used for loading, discharging, transferring, and transporting fluid products- oil, gas, and water. By rationalisation, it creates a new way of sustainable work delivery and enhances better investment in the supplier/manufacturer relationships. Sustainability creates a growing realisation that leads to engagement in long-term solutions on the issues of fluid transfer. These issues include flexible platform needs and easier configurations. Based on product development, the dichotomy that is conspicuous between academic research and industrial applications. However, it also creates some technical issues, slows down development and limits research outputs. Thus, the streamlined provisions of the industrial standards available -OCIMF GMPHOM (OCIMF 2009) and API 17 K (API 2017), have been helpful for design specifications and structural detailing. By classification, these hoses could be subsea hoses (or submarine hoses), floating hoses, catenary hoses, dredging hoses, cryogenic hoses or reeling hoses (Bluewater 2009, 2020a; OCIMF 2009; ContiTech 2017, 2020a). By functionality, marine hoses are either supply hoses or production hoses. By design, each hose type is designed uniquely for specific functionalities, environments and configurations. The configurations can be ship-to-ship, catenary, lazy-S, steep-S, lazy-wave, Chinese-lantern or tandem configuration (Trelleborg 2016, 2020; Yokohama 2016; Bluewater 2020; ContiTech 2020b). These configurations are adaptable on different offshore platforms and floating structures, like CALM (Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring) buoys and FPSO (Floating Production Storage Offloading) units, as depicted in Figure 1. Recently, Trelleborg presented a Pazflor configuration using treeline OLLs and gimbals (Mayau and Rampi 2006; Rampi et al. 2006; Prischi et al. 2012; Lagarrigue et al. 2014). Generals, hose configurations can be applied on typical different permanent platforms or mobile set ups of dry platforms, moored to a certain location with a network of marine hoses (Stearns 1975; Bai and Bai 2005; Nooij 2006; Sparks 2018; Amaechi et al. 2019a, 2019b, 2021). Additionally, hoses have different sizes, as seen in Antal et al. (2012)’s comparative study, which shows that hoses can also be extremely massive in size, such as the dredging hoses, in comparison to floating hoses, as shown in Figure 2.