Conference paper
Usage Frequency of Product Configuration Systems Relative to Integrations and Fields of Application
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark1
Engineering Design and Product Development, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
Operations Management, Management Science, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark3
Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark4
Management Science, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark5
University of Padua6
Product Configuration Systems (PCS) are automatic solutions that can support and facilitate the sales and engineering processes. PCSs have recently attracted increased attention both from the researches and practitioners. There are variety of challenges reported in the literature as consequences of using PCS, which reduces the usage frequency of the system.
To address those challenges, IT integrations can be an effective solution to reduce the number of manual tasks and complexity inside PCSs and make PCSs more user friendly. However, the influence of integrating PCS to different IT systems on usage frequency has not been addressed in the literature. This paper aims to study the relationship of PCS usage frequency in terms of (1) different application area of the PCSs, and (2) integrations to different IT systems.
The research method adopted in the paper is survey-based conducted in one company where the unit of analysis is operating PCS.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Pages: | 211-214 |
| Proceedings: | 2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management |
| ISBN: | 1538609479 , 1538609487 , 1538609495 , 9781538609477 , 9781538609484 and 9781538609491 |
| ISSN: | 2157362x and 21573611 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/IEEM.2017.8289882 |
| ORCIDs: | Shafiee, Sara , Kristjansdottir, Katrin and Hvam, Lars |
Companies Complexity theory Frequency measurement Interviews PCS usage frequency Supply chains Task analysis automatic solutions complexity different IT systems effective solution engineering processes field of application frequency increased attention integrating PCS integration integrations product configuration systems product customisation
