Abstract
The selection of the resources system (SRS) is an important element in the integration/project of Agile/Virtual Enterprises (A/V E) because its performance is dependent of this selection, and even of its creation. However, it remains a difficult matter to solve because is still a very complex and uncertain problem. We propose that using Value Analysis (VA) in the pre-selection of resources phase represents a significant improvement of the SRS process. The current literature fails to formally address the pre-selection phase and none of the resource selection models incorporate the resources value and its consequence in the complexity of the selection process. Whereby, ours developed model with VA constitutes an innovative approach towards greater sustainability in the configuration of A/V E in the context of Industry 4.0, where a massive interconnection among enterprises is expected and consequently the increase of the selection process complexity. After the construction of a demonstrator tool for a set of the problem formulations, this paper verifies by computational results the thesis regarding the benefits of applying VA to the SRS process: VA reduces the complexity of the SRS process, even ensuring that the final system of resources achieve higher quality/value grade.
Highlights
The initial subsistence tools-based economy evolved towards nowadays digital and global context where digital technology and virtual collaboration sustains both the manufacturing processes and relations among people and companies [1]
Our main objective is to demonstrate that Value Analysis (VA) reduces the complexity of the selection of the resources system (SRS) process
A plan of simulations was defined to pre-select the candidate resources with and without VA. These preselection results are incorporated into a final selection algorithm, in order to test our assumption: the contribution of the VA in SRS as a mechanism to reduce the complexity of the process
Summary
The initial subsistence tools-based economy evolved towards nowadays digital and global context where digital technology and virtual collaboration sustains both the manufacturing processes and relations among people (social networks) and companies (virtual organizations) [1] It was the work of Drucker and the researchers of the Iacocca Institute [2, 3] which gave rise to the concept of the virtual enterprise associated with the concept of creating dynamic networks of enter– prises. An A/V E should be a dyna– mic and virtual structure capable of reacting to a busi– ness opportunity, in which not every partner enterprise involved, whether wholly or partially, would lose its physical and cultural identity upon deactivation at the The development of such more dynamic and complex types of enterprises have led to an upsurge in research interest in the process of the selection of the resources system (SRS). In spite of few authors consider that I4.0 is still a vision of the future [10] or the research projects do not reach all the initial goals [11] the transformation is underway and the connectivity among enterprises is seen as important and necessary
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