Frédérique Mayer

University of Lorraine | UdL · ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs

Background The evolution of product expectations in the era of mass personalization implies an improvement and a better control of individualized creation and production processes throughout the product lifecycle. The application of the digital twin seems to be a favoured solution in this context, but its study during the lifecycle of a product has...

Safety validation of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) requires simulation. Automotive manufacturers need to generate scenarios used during this simulation-based validation process. Several approaches have been proposed to master scenario generation. However, none have proposed a method to measure the potential hazardousness of the scenarios with regard to...

Background The evolution of product expectations in the era of mass personalization implies an improvement and a better control of individualized creation and production processes throughout the product lifecycle. The application of the digital twin seems to be a favoured solution in this context, but its study during the lifecycle of a product has...

A road verge, also known as a roadside, is a strip of grass or vegetation, sometimes shrubs and trees, that forms a space on the public property located along a road or highway. They require regular maintenance, one of the most relevant reasons being the safety of road users, which implies for territory planners making decisions about the period of...

Nowadays, the emergence of digital technologies offers consumers access to customized products to meet their individual needs. Unlike traditional manufacturing, social manufacturing facilitates this by involving consumers in the design and production processes, which requires a paradigm shift. It is characterized by the central role of the consumer...

The objective of this paper is to propose a categorization of the objects defined under the term "Digital Twins" in the literature, to reduce the misuse of this term and to facilitate the understanding of the developments in this scientific field. A review of the literature on the categorization and classification of Digital Twins has been carried...

Within the aim of supporting territories to create more sustainable systems, road infrastructure plays a paramount role, not only because road shoulders represent a non-negligible land area, including their own biodiversity, but also because this represents the interface with the territory's ecosystems. For this reason, future road management syste...

Humanity is facing environmental issues that require the whole way in which we produce, distribute, and consume energy to be challenged. One technical solution that is widely considered is the smart grid, meaning a decentralized and multi-scale smart energy system. For more than a decade, various pilot projects have been implemented successfully al...

The safety demonstration and validation of Autonomous vehicles (AVs) remains a challenging activity. In this paper, we firstly review what those challenges are and how they affect the safety validation of the AV. Then, we particularly focus on the simulation-based validation process, which seems to be inevitable among the recommended safety validat...

AVs engineering cannot limit itself to the classical safety validation issue, which ensures the vehicle's functional safety. It faces a new safety validation challenge, in the functional performace guarantee of these new vehicle types. This paper presents some validation issue reflections and concludes with some important questions.

The system‐centered informal representation of a local reality is originally built intentionally by a “sentient being” who is aware that a real situation requires a certain wholeness. The work is based on a pragmatic body of interdisciplinary knowledge constitutive of a system‐centered architecting specification, in harmony with human‐centered and...

When launching new products, innovative companies have to anticipate the organization of the supply chain, which will support the manufacture of the product, and thus redefine their role within it. Therefore, anticipating organizational, technological or strategic changes within the initial supply chain is a key to success as early as the fuzzy fro...

During the launch of new products, innovative companies have to anticipate the organization of the supply chain, that supports the manufacturing of the product and thus, they have to redefine their role within it to remain competitive. Therefore, a reflection has to be conducted as soon as the new product is designed to anticipate the organizationa...

Responsiveness in manufacturing is a key challenge for facing open-ended changes more and more enhanced by the increasing development of easy-to-use digital technologies. However, the control of a given situation into wholeness by a respondent system is raising design issues to make cooperating together the many entities of the Human, digital and p...

The circular economy is an economy, firstly, considering the natural resources as finite and the non-existence of waste, secondly, assimilating the industrial system as a natural system and, finally, emphasizing the paradigm of regeneration. Nevertheless, this paradigm is not clearly defined and this paper aims to found it by proposing solutions to...

This special issue of INSIGHT section includes the main contributions presented in workshops that have held during the Systems Engineering Academia-Industry Forum. The aim of this issue is to provide an overview of the French research in the domain of Systems Engineering. This Systems Engineering Academia-Industry Forum is organized by AFIS (Associ...

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RESUME : La maturité croissante des environnements numériques de modélisation et de simulation permet d'envisager un management collaboratif à distance pour construire progressivement des spécifications exécutables mul-ti-domaines d'une architecture système. L'apprentissage par projet à l'ingénierie système peut tirer parti de cette tech-nologie nu...

A significant feature of critical systems such as power plants is their control by human operators. For that, they are placed at the field level where they perceive, process and provide the necessary information, which is partially digitalized. Another significant feature of the engineering of these systems is to focus mainly on technical requireme...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has been identified as a key concept within manufacturing industries for improving product quality, time-to-market and costs. Previous works on this field are focused on processes, functions and information models, and those aimed at putting more intelligence on products are related to specific parts of the produc...

Modern organization paradigms within manufacturing enterprises have arose in last years, like Agile Manufacturing and collaboration, in order for enterprises to increase their productivity and be more competitive in front of shorter due dates and increasing product qualities required by customers. Most previous works on PLM and currently available...

During the last decades, advanced information technologies have became more and more omnipresent to address new requirements and new needs of our e society. As a consequence of their increasing development, the social impact of information technologies, in general, and automation and control technologies, in particular, become so strong that it inf...

As the lifetime of many products (that is, goods or services) gets shorter, enterprises have to evolve their information system to account for changes in the internal and external business environment. Indeed, enterprises are using more and more software applications, such as APS, ERP, MES, and SCM, to deal with the increasing complexity of informa...

Systems of systems (SoS) are a hot topic in our "fully connected global world". Our aim is not to provide another definition of what SoS are, but rather to focus on the adequacy of reusing standard system architecting techniques within this approach in order to improve performance, fault detection and safety issues in large-scale coupled systems th...

Over the years, innovation has become the central element of enterprise strategy. It is only thanks to innovation that a product or a service differentiates from its competitors and creates the conditions for growth. Nowadays, innovative enterprises have to consider two aspects about new product development: (1) that it generates large product vari...

Today's needs for more capable enterprise systems in a short timeframe is leading more organizations toward the integration of existing product-systems into broader intra-organizational enterprise-systems and their integration into inter-organizational systems of enterprise-systems. Although important R&D efforts lead to a general consensus that En...

Engineering an enterprise system as a whole from business to manufacturing to fulfill capabilities in order to achieve global performances remains in fine a complex ad hoc process. This complexity is addressed by many modeling artifacts ranging from top down enterprise modeling frameworks to bottom up COTS systems engineering approaches. Increasing...

Les évolutions vers une entreprise « numérique » intégrant ses processus de gestion, d’exécution et de conception au travers de progiciels spécialisés (ERP, MES, CRM, CAO, SGDT, …) conduisent les formations de techniciens et cadres de l’industrie (cycle ingénieur, filière universitaire, formation continue) à prendre en compte cette dimension dans l...

Despite the great variety of technical means availa ble to acquire and to share knowledge, the searching for knowledge in response to a particular need still seems to lack efficiency . The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of this established fact. The formalization of the exchanges of knowled ge between the producer and...

In spite of the large variety of technological means available today to obtain and share knowledge needed by the progress of our Society, the relation between the knowledge produced and the knowledge required is not sufficiently facilitated. This paper aims to provide a partial answer to this issue. It proposes a NIAM/ORM formalization of exchanges...

The health system has to face a complex and uncertain environment with which the patient is constantly faced. in this study, that concerns the performance of health care, we propose to analyse the processes with a logic of network. We will show that modelling is a method to evaluate and improve health networks. Our study will particularly consider...

Over several decades, control theory has developed its own set of more or less formal modelling techniques designed to automatically control the dynamic behaviour of complicated manufacturing systems and processes. The emerging Internet society is addressing new enterprise control and management integration (ECMI) challenges for agile business to m...

One of the characteristics of concurrent engineering is based on communication, information and knowledge sharing into multi-disciplinary teams. The problem is that people have to share the same meanings of concepts, whereas they do not have the same conceptual and linguistic referential. The question we ask are: how can we integrate their differen...

Main researches and developments in IMS, MAS (Multi-Agent System) and HMS (Holonic Manufacturing System) for manufacturing plant control and management as well as manufacturing enterprise networking are based on ICTs (Information & Communication Technologies) based approaches. Beyond these technology-driven approaches, the field of ‘Intelligence in...

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The aim of this paper is to propose a system-based modelling framework to understand and model an enterprise (e.g. an SME) in order to design and implement integrated business solutions (e.g. Enterprise Resource Planning ERP) while keeping the legacy of the SME's original human-centred organisation. We have used mathematical principles to formalise...

The spectacular impact of integrated business solutions reminds still difficult for SMEs. Difficulties arise from the misunderstanding between these too generic “Information Technologies push” organisation and the human-centered organisation as SME. To reconcile users needs and IT, we propose to combine an enterprise modelling approach based on a m...

We describe a design method for educational multimedia software using the principles of concurrent engineering. This requires a close collaboration between the social scientist's and the engineer's approaches and a mutual questioning at every stage of the design process. Thus we present how the educational specifications, the processing/management...

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Design Management and Manufacturing System concept, reduced to Corporate Information Management, put in place a concurrent methodologywhich couples mechanisation and automation synergies for discrete part manufacturing systems specifications, in a manner which allows a cooperation and a quasi-reactivity of the project’s actors. Precepts extended to...

Increasing availability, security, quality and competitiveness of the production systems constitute today a challenge needing new industrial strategies. The automation functions can contribute to these new strategies, for example, identifying “invariants” within automation engineering and promoting new design approaches based upon a “know-how” reus...