Yves Ducq

University of Bordeaux · Institute of Technology Bordeaux

In today’s technological landscape, Digital Twins have emerged as pivotal technologies, offering unprecedented opportunities for innovation and optimization across various industries. Despite numerous on-going research and development initiatives, the verification and validation (V&V) of the Digital Twin (DT) remains a major scientific obstacle. In...

Enterprises today face an increasing need for seamless data exchange across various information systems, both internally and with their partners. Addressing challenges in information system and data interoperability is essential. Unfortunately, this issue is often underrecognized by many stakeholders, leading to time wasted on non-value-added tasks...

Blockchain technology has become a reality and its experimentation promises a future of innovative and beneficial technology. In almost all fields, this technology has seduced the actors because of its potentialities, namely traceability, transparency, security, immutability, etc. However, setting up such a technology adapted to one's needs is far...

These Blockchain is considered a digital, decentralized and distributed registry of relevant data, assets and transactions that is shared among members of a network. This technology attracts many sectors and his choice depends on several factors. For this, the ideal would be to consider all stakeholders from start to finish to allow everyone to be...

Product development and manufacturing is entering a digital era, thanks to the progress made in data science and virtual technologies. The digital twin (DT) is one of the key concepts associated with this transition to Industry 4.0. Yet, in the literature, the term is differently used in various communities. In addition, the DT implementation in th...

In the context of internationalization, the supply chain (SC) becomes complex with a profusion of decisions to take. SC modeling and performances have been widely discussed by researchers. The emergence of new technologies impacts the running and key performance indicators (KPI) of SC. There are several models of SC but none of them are oriented to...

Over the last decade, additive manufacturing (AM) has received an increased attention as many manufacturing companies have increasingly adopted new technologies to capture new opportunities. This research identifies the impacts of AM on the supply chain when compared to the case of conventional manufacturing. Through an empirical investigation cond...

Blockchain is one of the greatest technological inventions and remains at the heart of the debate. Even if it is the subject of several experiments, scientists and specialists in the field are increasingly convinced that it hides much more potential and attracts 20% of central banks worldwide in 2020. However, the supply chain world, which for a lo...

With the increased pressure on higher education institutions to review and improve their practice in the area of students’ learning outcomes as part of quality assurance efforts, this paper aims to propose a systematic approach to internships’ learning outcome evaluation. Internship or work-integrated learning provides students with the opportunity...

Security in systems and networks has always been a major issue for IT administrators. When it comes to medical applications, this concern is much more important due to the sensitivity of data and the risks that may be caused due to alteration or falsification of such critical information. The proposed paper presents a solution to assure the best se...

Part 6: Regular Session: Additive Manufacturing and Mass Customization

Over the last decade, Additive Manufacturing has received an increased attention as many manufacturing companies have increasingly adopted new technologies to capture new opportunities. This research identifies the impacts of Additive Manufacturing (AM) on the supply chain when compared to the case of conventional manufacturing. Through an empirica...

IFIP’s workgroup 5.8 on Enterprise Interoperability was founded in 2008. In this paper we provide a workgroup point of view on the state of the art in Enterprise Modelling, Enterprise Engineering, Enterprise Architectures, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Interoperability. We present an overview of the state-of-the-art from the WG5.8’s research p...

The world faces nowadays serious health problems caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). This last was reported by officials in Wuhan City China, in December 2019, and led to a pandemic as of March 2020.Subsequently world economy plunged into an unprecedented paralysis. Despite the threat of COVID-19 on the populations health, many count...

Nowadays, industries are implementing heterogeneous systems from different domains, backgrounds, and operating systems. Manufacturing systems are becoming more and more complex, which forces engineers to manage the complexity in several aspects. Technical complexities bring interoperability, risk management, and hazards issues that must be taken in...

TC 5: Information Technology Applications

La modélisation et la simulation (M&S) sont des étapes importantes dans le processus de conception. La complexité grandissante des systèmes tend à accroitre le besoin de segmenter les modèles, leurs exécutions, se dirigeant vers des approches distribuées. Papyrus, un modeleur UML / SysML open source est un outil permettant la M&S de ces deux langag...

In order to control manufacturing systems, managers need risk and performance evaluation methods and simulation tools. However, these simulation techniques must evolve towards being multiperformance, multiactor, and multisimulation tools, and this requires interoperability between those distributed components. This paper presents an integrated plat...

Featured Application: The methodology proposed in this paper may benefit industrials to better bridge the gap between business requirements and implementation requirements by using a tool merging modeling and simulation in the same phase. The modeling and simulation techniques proposed are based on a resource-perspective approach. Abstract: With th...

Lean production (LP) consists of very useful techniques; however, its implementation can significantly vary from one sector to another or from one practitioner to another. Although several lean experiences exist in aerospace, no specific method has been developed to adapt lean tools to the characteristics of the aerospace sector. This study uses a...

Enterprise performance has been investigated since the 1900s, leading to many approaches, methods, and frameworks around the world, developed either by researchers or by practitioners and consultants. The purpose of these approaches is the design and the implementation of performance indicators and performance measurement systems (PMSs). More than...

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) are important steps in the design of industrial systems and production plants. They help in anticipating and understanding these complex systems in order to make decisions about strategic implementations before effective development. Once the models are satisfyingly built, namely they correctly reflect the system, the...

Nowadays, due to the increasing complexity of business environment, especially demand uncertainty, supply chain managers need to establish more-effective sourcing and distribution strategies to ensure high customer service and low stock costs. To overcome this challenge multi-echelon network structures and alternative distribution strategies such a...

Abstract— The automotive industry in general is characterized by a diversity of products and equipment manufacturers who are dedicated to a production mainly for export to several destinations. This sector still lacks downstream logistics competitiveness with a low quality/price ratio of transport. For these companies to remain competitive in a com...

The constant search for customer satisfaction and the desire to hold an exclusive position in the market, are two parameters on which the organizations remain vigilant. To keep ahead of the competition, they intend to offer attractive services. Process automation (workflows) remains the most promising solution to save time, money and improve servic...

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) are important steps in design process. Increasing the complexity of engineered system tend to raise Distributed Simulation. Papyrus, an open source UML/SysML modeler of the Eclipse foundation provides a tool to model and simulate these two languages thanks to the fUML standard. However, Papyrus is not yet able to deal...

Business process model and notation (BPMN) is becoming the most used modeling language for business process. One of the important upgrades of BPMN 2.0 is the fact that data objects are now handling semantic elements. Nevertheless, BPMN does not enable the representation of performance measurement in the case of interoperability problems in the exch...

ABC classification is a technique widely used by companies to deal with inventories consisting of very large numbers of distinct stock keeping units. Single-criterion ABC classification methods are often used in practice and recently multi-criteria methods have attracted the attention of academics and practitioners. Several models have been develop...

Business process model and notation (BPMN) is becoming the most used modeling language for business process. One of the important upgrades of BPMN 2.0 is the fact that data objects are now handling semantic elements. Nevertheless, BPMN does not enable the representation of performance measurement in the case of interoperability problems in the exch...

Many companies from different sectors (automotive, aeronautic, food and pharmacy) have grasped the contribution of Lean manufacturing to increase the global performance through stock turnover increase, reduce the lead times and increase the defect free products. In spite of several existing case studies investigating the Lean approach benefits, the...

To control their enterprises in a complex environment, decision-makers need to measure their enterprise regularly to perpetuate. For that, they use a specific set of performance indicators grouped in a coherent system named performance measurement systems (PMS). Such systems are generally defined and implemented using different methods. As business...

During the last 30 years, enterprise modelling has been recognised as an efficient tool to externalise the knowledge of companies in order to understand their operations, to analyse their running and to design new systems from several points of view: functions, processes, decisions, resources and information technology. This paper aims at describin...

Industrial enterprises are gradually integrating Modeling & Simulation (M&S) approaches to support their management processes and to keep themselves competitive in the market by handling and connecting more efficiently their key information. On the one hand, several modeling solutions exist, with different views or abstraction levels, which are not...

This chapter presents a metric-based approach for software development and interoperability. In the first step of the proposed approach, a framework was used to define a specific definition of the method by making several choices regarding the application of the generic method. In the second step, the state of available data was compared to the dat...

The notion of interoperability is only relevant when there is some degree of networking or collaboration between companies. This chapter presents the main types of network in order to infer, in fine, the type of interoperability needed in each particular case. The forms of collaboration between networked companies may be varied, but they all at lea...

Enterprise businesses are more than ever challenged by competitors that frequently refine and tailor their offers to clients. In this context, enterprise information systems (EIS) are especially important because: (1) they remain one of the last levers to increase the performance and competitiveness of the enterprise, (2) we operate in a business w...

The notion of interoperability is only relevant when there is some degree of networking or collaboration between companies. This chapter presents the main types of network in order to infer, in fine, the type of interoperability needed in each particular case. The forms of collaboration between networked companies may be varied, but they all at lea...

Nowadays, Companies have to deal with uncertain demand which is more difficult to handle when it has a non-stationary pattern. Simultaneous decrease of customer service and increase of stock costs are the most significant effects of such demand uncertainty. To deal with this issue, inventory optimization models must be adapted to cover a multi-eche...

Enterprise businesses are more than ever challenged by competitors that frequently refine and tailor their offers to clients. In this context, enterprise information systems (EIS) are especially important because: (1) they remain one of the last levers to increase the performance and competitiveness of the enterprise, (2) we operate in a business w...

Market competition is pushing companies to differentiate themselves from competitors by developing customised services in addition to their original production (either physical or digital). It drives the emergence of service process modelling to describe more precisely the composition of services. Nevertheless, business initiatives modelling can be...

Market competition is pushing companies to differentiate themselves from competitors by developing customised services in addition to their original production (either physical or digital). It drives the emergence of service process modelling to describe precisely the composition of services. To this end, this paper presents the key concept of the...

Risk is an inherent property of every project. In many cases, project management and risk management are applied quite independently. The traditional tools of project management do not include the notion of risk and the tools of risk management focus on the representation of risks without explicitly representing the project, which leads to implemen...

This special session collects papers describing scientific researches on simulation models and optimization methods for logistics and transportation. This session addresses issues relating to urban transport systems (unimodal, bimodal, multimodal), and overall the problems related to logistics systems with complexity and diversity of data to proces...

In a turbulent world, global competition and the uncertainty of markets have led organizations and technology to evolve exponentially, surpassing the most imaginary scenarios predicted at the beginning of the digital manufacturing era, in the 1980s. Business paradigms have changed from a standalone vision into complex and collaborative ecosystems w...

The research objective of this work is to develop an approach to reach inter-enterprise interoperability and to test its achievement using practices from the software engineering process. Four fundamental activities are identified in the software process: software specification, software development, software validation and software evolution [1]....

Le risque est une propriété inhérente de chaque projet. Dans de nombreux cas, la gestion de projet et la gestion des risques soient appliquées indépendamment. Les outils traditionnels de gestion de projet ne comprennent pas la notion de risque et les outils de mise au point de la gestion des risques sur la représentation des risques sans représenta...

This paper presents an engineering methodological approach to support manufacturing servitization in Virtual Manufacturing Environment (VME) and Ecosystem. This methodology was developed under a European Integrated Project MSEE (Manufacturing Service Ecosystem) and experimented in four companies under the frame of MSEE project. The methodology is e...

MSEE represents an initial but decisive step towards uplifting manufacturing services to a much higher engineering maturity level, by developing new models, processes and tools (called MSEE Bag of Assets), with the final aim of a peer-to-peer interconnection between service engineering and product engineering along the whole product-service lifecyc...

Earlier research on the effects of nonoverlapping temporal aggregation on demand forecasting showed the benefits associated with such an approach under a stationary AR(1) or MA(1) processes for decision making conducted at the disaggregate level. The first objective of this note is to extend those important results by considering a more general und...

Small companies, like their larger counterparts, need information systems to drive and measure their performance. Until now, only large firms had access to Enterprise Resource Planning technology, but the market is increasingly tapping into to the needs of small businesses. For many SMEs, however, the difficulty lies in navigating the choices avail...

Nowadays service sector is becoming more and more relevant in building successful collaborative economies. In this environment Virtual Enterprises (VEs) are forcing a change in the way traditional manufacturing systems are managed. Therefore measuring service performances plays an important role in turning company strategic goals into reality. Perf...

Small companies, like their larger counterparts, need information systems to drive and measure their performance. Until now, only large firms had access to ERP technology, but the market is increasingly tapping into to the needs of small businesses. For many SMEs, however, the difficulty lies in navigating the choices available and defining their s...

The service process modeling is emerging in the enterprise. Nevertheless, business modelling can be very complex, lying at the heart of many business decisions and demanding a lot of time and effort. A well-designed, well-built business model can lower risk and make enterprises more successful in their objectives. The SLMToolBox is an Eclipse RCP t...

Nowadays, many companies designing and manufacturing products have to develop collaborations with various partners. This situation involves increasing information exchanges between industrial partners and generates many related problems of data transfers, transformations or misunderstanding due to interoperability. This paper deals with enterprise...

Risk is an inherent property of every project. In many cases, project management and risk management are applied quite independently. On the one hand, the traditional tools of project management do not include the notion of risk. On the other hand, the tools of risk management focus on the representation of risks without explicitly representing the...

Industrial enterprises have gradually moved their goals towards production of physical products supplemented by intangible services to differentiate themselves in a compatible market. The study of these services, their set up, and the evaluation of their efficiency is a rising research domain. In the frame of Model Driven Service Engineering Archit...

This chapter presents the service modelling architecture that is proposed in the frame of a FP7 project: MSEE. The goal of this work is to develop service system modelling language to support service system engineering and implementation. The chapter describes the servitization process and the definition of what a service system is, as well princip...

Evolution of service concepts and competition standards in business domain has resulted in a new kind of collaboration between enterprises. As a result of this collaboration virtual enterprises and ecosystems were created. Due to this cooperation, several issues had arisen regarding interoperability concerns for data exchange, and service modeling...

The present research work aims at developing an approach to reach inter-enterprise interoperability and to test its achievement using practices from the software engineering process. Four fundamental activities are identified in the software process: software specification, software development, software validation and software evolution [1]. In th...

Enterprise applications and software systems need to be interoperable in order to achieve seamless business across organizational boundaries and thus realize virtual networked organizations. Our proposition can be considered as an interoperability project selection approach and is based on three steps: (1) Modelling both collaborative business proc...

This article proposes a framework and methodology to evaluate and improve the interoperability for each partner of an inter-enterprises collaboration. The framework is based on the decomposition of business processes into non-value-added NVA and business activities and it is also based on process performance indicators PIs to measure interoperabili...

Based on systems engineering principles, information modelling is seen as a central activity for the development and life cycle support of a product or system. It enables to reduce the costs derived from miscommunications and misconceptions normally occurring throughout the service system design, analysis and maintenance activities. Supporting the...

In this paper the relative effectiveness of top-down (TD) versus bottom-up (BU) strategies is compared for forecasting the aggregate demand. We assume that the subaggregate demand follows an Autoregressive Moving Average process of order one and a Single Exponential Smoothing (SES) procedure is used to forecast demand. This demand process is often...

To ensure that the service system to be implemented is closely aligned with the value proposition expected by customers, this research presents a new business service modeling approach by combining philosophy of model driven approach and a value modeling. In this approach, value is considered as a key driven element to guide the model process and t...