Concepts for Modeling Hybrid Products in the Construction Industry
Methods for modeling products need to be extended or integrated with other methods when moving from products, i.e., tangible goods, to hybrid products. This paper investigates such modeling methods from a method-engineering perspective. In particular, we
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Abstract. Methods for modeling products need to be extended or integrated with other methods when moving from products, i.e., tangible goods, to hybrid products. This paper investigates such modeling methods from a methodengineering perspective. In particular, we consider the construction industry which is increasingly subject of hybrid product strategies as a mean of differentiation. The contribution is that we (1) reconstruct core modeling concepts from six modeling methods and (2) integrate those into a meta model. The analysis shows that the so called result dimension is still dominating, thus what hybrid products provide whereas both the process and resource dimension lack attention and dedicated modeling concepts. Keywords: Hybrid Products, Meta Modeling, Modeling Methods, Product Models, Product Data Management, Reference Models.
1 Introduction Product Data Management (PDM) offers a comprehensive set of integrated methods for modeling products ranging from parts and components to highly complex products. These methods are widely used in practice and implemented in respective information systems. The methods, however have to face the problem of hybrid products. Such products represent integrated bundles of both tangible goods and services, and therefore require considering the resource, process and result dimensions. Hybrid products can exemplarily be studied in the construction industry. Due to increasing price competition in this industry, hybrid products as value-adding solutions to specific customer requirements, have attracted many firms as a mean of differentiation. In addition, this industry has yielded specific modeling methods for products which need to be studied whether they can be extended towards hybrid products. This paper investigates methods for modeling products and services. Such methods have emerged independently and successively from each other and thus differ not only in their underlying design paradigms but also with regard to process model, modeling concepts and notation. We take a method engineering perspective which allows for (1) conducting a systematic analysis of syntactically diverse modeling methods and (2) constructing a domain-specific modeling method for hybrid products. The contribution W. Abramowicz and D. Fensel (Eds.): BIS 2008, LNBIP 7, pp. 154–164, 2008. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
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is that we (1) reconstruct core modeling concepts from six modeling methods and (2) integrate those into a meta model. This is made possible by language-based meta modeling as the underlying research method [1]. This research method requires the following four steps: (1) definition of the meta model language, (2) specification of the meta models of each modeling method, (3) identification of common and different modeling concepts and (4) specification of an integrated meta model. The present work contributes to a research framework which concerns logistics systems under customization. Logistics systems pro
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