Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

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Applied Fluid Dynamics Handbook

As the value of a university degree plummets, the popularity of the digital microcredential has soared. Similar to recent calls for the early adoption of Blockchain technology, the so-called ‘microcredentialing craze’ could be no more than a fad, marketing hype, or another case of ‘learning innovation theater.’ Alternatively, the introduction of these compact skills- and competency-based online certificate programs might augur the arrival of a legitimate successor to the four-year university diploma. The thesis of this article is that the craze for microcredentialing reflects (1) administrative urgency to unbundle higher education curricula and degree programs for greater efficiency and profitability and (2) a renascent movement among industry and higher education leaders to reorient the university curriculum towards vocational training.

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Higher Education’s Microcredentialing Craze: a Postdigital-Deweyan Critique

The automotive industry is one of the most competitive industries worldwide. New market and design trends emerge continuously, requiring new manufacturing approaches to comply with the automotive industry. Additive manufacturing (AM) provides an important competitive edge to this industrial domain, acting as a disruptive approach by shortening products design and development, delivering flexibility on production, and producing optimized automotive components and customized vehicle products upon request. Automotive production benefits from the use of AM on soft assembly tools or specialized tools to produce vehicle components. The freeform capacity offered by AM enables the design and direct production of optimized automotive components, focused on vehicles performance as well as customized assembly tools to enhance productivity. Another related AM technical advantage is the possibility of producing lightweight components, supported by generative design algorithms. Last but not least, the time-to-market on AM parts decreased significantly, enabling the concept of mass customization. The strong trend on energy consumption decrease poses new challenges regarding vehicles design, performance, and regulations compliance. AM is the key-enabling technology for new vehicles considering the actual paradigm shift from the common combustion engine to alternate motion systems. This chapter presents an overview on AM applications on the automotive industry, focused on the technical and economic impact provided by this manufacturing technology.

Additive manufacturing for the automotive industry

The economies of the industrialized world have become dominated by services. Many manufacturing companies have changed from producing products to providing services. However, many companies still lag behind in this transformation. It is observed that most of the published methodologies are at an advanced level and provide minimal assistance to help managers and especially the managers of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) who are interested in easy-to-use methodologies for transforming their product range. Therefore, a model that assists the transformation of products into services is proposed, which is at a level that can be directly applied by SMEs. A utility-driven approach is followed to establish the model that consists of seven steps. In the initial steps, a product that is to be servitized is selected and broken down into its utility features and customer barriers. Furthermore, options for increasing utility and reducing barriers are presented such that the overall tangibility of the existing product is reduced. This reduction in tangibility in both physical and psychological dimensions is defined as servitization in the present study. This article presents a practical framework for the transformation of company offerings so that they are gradually adjusted to a service economy.

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Servitization: A Model for the Transformation of Products into Services through a Utility-Driven Approach

The flow around two-dimensional (2D) square, triangular and semi-circular subsea protection structures mounted on a horizontal plane wall with different thicknesses of incident boundary layer flow has been investigated numerically using 2D Reynolds–averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations, with the standard high Reynolds number k–ɛ turbulence model. The normalised thickness of incident boundary layer, δ/D (where δ is the boundary layer thickness and D is the height of the structure), varies from 0.73 to 2.55. Reynolds number (Re) based on the free stream velocity and the height of the structure is 1×106. The objective of the present study is to evaluate the applicability of RANS simulations for the wall mounted structures subject to high Re incoming boundary layer flow. The predicted hydrodynamic quantities are in good agreement with the published experimental data, which shows that the present model can predict the high Re boundary layer flow around the wall–mounted structures reasonably well.

Numerical simulation of flow around different wall-mounted structures

It is an agreed fact among scholars that services are more sustainable compared to the products. By offering services, traditional companies can lock their customers into a long-term and sustainable revenue generation settlement. Available academic literature is abundant with methodologies related to service development. However, this study investigates various value adding service options related to financing and ownership of a product that can be offered on top of the existing products. It is important to understand these options from the consumer as well as supplier perspective. The most well established options available for financing/ownership are compiled, and sorted with respect to intangibility, ownership, financing and value addition scale. The study argues that the identified options incrementally add value to the existing offering by increasing the purchasing power and reducing the ownership obstacles for the customers. However, for the supplier, the decision depends on the trade-off between value addition for the customers and the business model changes required.

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Integration Of Value Adding Services Related To Financing And Ownership: A Business Model Perspective

This study aims to present a novel approach of using technology trends to trigger product ideas. It is primarily addressed to product ideation where limited applied approaches are available.,The model is built by extending the theoretical framework of ideation study. It comprises morphological analysis with product breakdown as primary and technological trends as a secondary dimension to prompt product ideas from user’s intuition. The approach is multidisciplinary using insights from the areas of cognition, management strategy and project management. The model is further tested in two different test configurations with university students (n = 81).,The results indicate that this systematic model can increase the quality and number of ideas generated by the students compared to generally practised approaches. It is shown that this approach increases the chances of triggering ideas.,The testing of the present model is comprehensive and in no means exhaustive.,Because of the shrinking product life cycle, organisations have a need for systematic product ideation models that can assist in innovating their product ranges. It is important to study idea generation for products to not only assist product innovation but also comprehensively understand the process of creativity. The proposed model is primarily addressed to product innovation projects where limited practical tools are available for product ideation. The present model is easy to apply and has the tendency to generate novel product ideas that can lead to successful product innovations.,Product innovation currently has limited systematic ideation tools where this study contributes.

Muhammad Ahmad Tauqeer

Papers

Servitization: A Model for the Transformation of Products into Services through a Utility-Driven Approach

Numerical simulation of flow around different wall-mounted structures

Integration Of Value Adding Services Related To Financing And Ownership: A Business Model Perspective

A novel systematic product ideation model using technology trends

Assessment of Impact Damage Caused by Dropped Objects on Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) Covers