Functional product system availability: simulation-driven design and operation through coupled multi-objective optimisation

Magnus Lofstrand, John Andrews, Magnus Karlberg and Lennart Karlsson

International Journal of Product Development, 2011, vol. 13, issue 2, 119-131

Abstract: This paper describes on a conceptual level how the availability of functional products (consisting of hardware (HW) and a support system) may be simulated. The main objective of this paper is to present a simulation-driven methodology for predicting and optimising the availability and cost of functional products in both development and operation. The proposed simulation and optimisation methodology includes both HW and support system models, which coupled form a simulation model of a system (functional product) delivering the function. Two different simulation-driven methodologies are suggested in the paper: one for development and another for operation of functional products.

Keywords: functional product development; PSS; product-service-system; performance simulation; BDDs; binary decision diagrams; Petri nets; multiobjective optimisation; availability; productivity; cost; modelling; functional products; product operation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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