Decentralized Engineering Decision Models to Support Product Transitions

支持产品转型的分散式工程决策模型

基本信息

批准号：
1824744
负责人：
Osman Ozaltin
金额：
$ 61.89万
依托单位：
North Carolina State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-01 至 2023-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1824744&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Decentralized Engineering Decision Models Support

项目摘要

This award will contribute to the national prosperity by providing rigorous methods to improve the management of product transitions, the introduction of new products to replace older models, in high-technology manufacturing industries. Because of the rapid pace of technological development and strong competition among firms, product life cycles in high-tech industries have shortened significantly in recent years. New product development and testing, critical to the firm's success, must be executed while continuing to produce a range of products unaffected by the transition. Effective management of both new and existing products requires close coordination between manufacturing, engineering, and product development organizations, which are autonomous organizational units. In contrast to current product transitions, which are often managed without considering the operational issues requiring coordination of multiple organizations, this project provides a novel approach to collaborative risk management by negotiating resource allocation between units, which will both reduce the cost and shorten the length of product transitions. An integral part of the award is the development of a simulation-based computer game that will give hands-on experience of solving this problem and its crucial importance in today's high tech economy. The research is contextualized within the semiconductor industry, which is of central importance to the nation's long-term economic success.This award will develop decentralized decision making tools to understand incentive structures and coordination mechanisms to enable efficient collaborative solutions for the management of product transitions. The research draws on the tools of algorithmic game theory and combinatorial auctions to develop and analyze decentralized decision making methods to support the firm's long-term viability. This requires computing Nash equilibria for a multiperiod problem involving both discrete and continuous decisions. This approach will be complemented by a bilevel programming approach in which corporate management plays the role of the leader allocating resources to the other units. The project will extend the bilevel programming framework to consider interactions among the followers, providing novel formulations and solution approaches. Once satisfactory solutions have been obtained for a deterministic environment, these will be used to explore alternative strategies for hedging against uncertainties.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项将通过提供严格的方法来改善高科技制造行业的产品转型管理、推出新产品来取代旧型号，从而为国家繁荣做出贡献。近年来，由于技术发展的快速发展和企业之间的激烈竞争，高科技行业的产品生命周期显着缩短。新产品的开发和测试对于公司的成功至关重要，必须在继续生产一系列不受转型影响的产品的同时进行。新产品和现有产品的有效管理需要制造、工程和产品开发组织（这些组织是自治组织单位）之间的密切协调。目前的产品转型通常在不考虑需要多个组织协调的运营问题的情况下进行管理，与此相反，该项目通过协商单位之间的资源分配，提供了一种协作风险管理的新方法，这既可以降低成本，又可以缩短项目周期。产品转型。该奖项的一个组成部分是开发一款基于模拟的计算机游戏，该游戏将提供解决该问题的实践经验及其在当今高科技经济中的至关重要性。该研究以半导体行业为背景，这对国家的长期经济成功至关重要。该奖项将开发去中心化决策工具，以了解激励结构和协调机制，从而为产品转型管理提供高效的协作解决方案。该研究利用算法博弈论和组合拍卖的工具来开发和分析去中心化决策方法，以支持公司的长期生存能力。这需要计算涉及离散和连续决策的多周期问题的纳什均衡。这种方法将得到双层规划方法的补充，其中企业管理层扮演领导者的角色，向其他单位分配资源。该项目将扩展双层编程框架，以考虑追随者之间的互动，提供新颖的公式和解决方法。一旦在确定性环境中获得满意的解决方案，这些解决方案将用于探索对冲不确定性的替代策略。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。