Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neeraj Pandey Author-X-Name-First: Neeraj Author-X-Name-Last: Pandey Author-Name: Avadhut Arun Patwardhan Author-X-Name-First: Avadhut Arun Author-X-Name-Last: Patwardhan Author-Name: Swarnima Rao Author-X-Name-First: Swarnima Author-X-Name-Last: Rao Title: Four decades of new product development research: an integrative review Abstract: Changes in global market conditions and regulatory policies have led to a greater focus on new product development (NPD). To survive and compete in the market, organisations need to develop a comprehensive understanding of NPD, including the past and present trends in NPD research. This study attempts to address this need by analysing scholarly literature on NPD published in last four decades, i.e. 1976-2017. Unlike previous literature reviews that focused on specific NPD aspects such as performance measurement or model selection/evaluation, this study adopts a holistic perspective. By analysing 381 articles on NPD, we shed light on the underlying research trends, common research characteristics as well the gaps in research and potential directions for future NPD research. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 1-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: literature review; new product development; innovation; product design. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=98385 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:1-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lorenzo Fiorineschi Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Fiorineschi Author-Name: Federico Rotini Author-X-Name-First: Federico Author-X-Name-Last: Rotini Title: Linking design problems and modular solutions Abstract: Designing products implies to deal with a series of issues affecting their entire life cycle, which are often solved by exploiting the benefits offered by modular architectures. Nevertheless, although several studies have been performed on this argument, understanding 'when' and 'how' to adopt modularity still remains a non-trivial task, especially in the early design stages. Indeed, different modularity types can be found in literature, but it is unclear whether they can be linked to specific categories of design problems or not. Attempting to fill this gap, the paper proposes an investigation strategy to highlight the relationship between modular solutions and design problems. An illustrative application of the proposal on a sample of products is presented together with the achieved results. They show that the proposed investigation approach potentially allows to highlight preferred modular solutions for specific problem categories. Moreover, a new set of unambiguous definitions of the modularity types is presented to clearly identify interfaces and interactions among modules. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 15-41 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: engineering design; modularity; modular design; problem solving; product architecture. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=98396 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:15-41 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wei Liu Author-X-Name-First: Wei Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Songhe Ye Author-X-Name-First: Songhe Author-X-Name-Last: Ye Author-Name: James Moultrie Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Moultrie Title: Exploring traditional and new web-based methods to involve customers in new product development Abstract: This research seeks to understand the extent to which 'new' web-based methods of involving customers are being applied in New Product Development (NPD). There are distinctive capabilities offered by both traditional and new web-based methods, but little is known regarding the uptake and use of these new approaches. Semi-structured interviews with R%D managers in six leading companies were conducted. Each interview was recorded and transcribed. The interviews sought to identify the methods viewed as being most effective and to determine views on the use of web-based methods in contrast to traditional approaches. Results indicate that new web-based methods are being used, but mostly superficially as a means of collecting feedback after product launch and there is limited use of these methods for customer involvement during product development. However, there is a growing awareness of the need to use them more effectively. Implications for managerial practice are also derived. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 42-64 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: new methods; traditional methods; customer involvement; new product development; internet. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=98398 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:42-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Sannö Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Sannö Author-Name: Mats Ahlskog Author-X-Name-First: Mats Author-X-Name-Last: Ahlskog Title: Integrating knowledge for manufacturing technology development Abstract: The manufacturing industry of today is constantly challenged with new requirements that have to be fulfilled in order to stay competitive on both the short term and the longer term. These new requirements can trigger the need to develop the technology in production. With technology development come uncertainties which can be reduced by integrating new knowledge in the organisation. The overall purpose of this paper is to explain empirically how knowledge integration can be managed in order to reduce the uncertainty of manufacturing technology development while balancing resources towards the short-term production needs. The findings of the current research highlight collaboration, specialist competence and a systematic approach considering the setting, which needs to be managed when conducting manufacturing technology development during full production. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 65-83 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: technology management; interactive research; manufacturing industry; knowledge integration. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=98399 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:65-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richa Misra Author-X-Name-First: Richa Author-X-Name-Last: Misra Author-Name: Sonali Singh Author-X-Name-First: Sonali Author-X-Name-Last: Singh Author-Name: Renuka Mahajan Author-X-Name-First: Renuka Author-X-Name-Last: Mahajan Title: An empirical study on the cellular subscribers churn, selection factors and satisfaction with the services Abstract: With mobile phones becoming smarter, almost all operating systems are downloading and using data. Cellular service providers are concerned with decline in revenue due to constant decline in voice call and text messages and consequently more options of moving to competitor. This leads to building of a model that describes the critical factor explaining the switching of subscriber, to understand the factors for customer churn and identify the relationships between these three constructs with respect to higher mobile data usage. In order to validate the proposed relationship, Confirmatory Factor Analysis using Structure Equation Modelling is used. Findings indicate that one of the important construct of selecting a service provider is customer's satisfactory experience with the service provider. Also, it has been found that the significance of data services is constantly increasing for the subscribers. These findings will be useful to both service providers and researchers to comprehend the service quality parameters considering mobile subscribers view point. This can help to re-look the existing benchmarks and increase customer satisfaction. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 105-121 Issue: 2/3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: customer satisfaction; churn; service quality; data services; mobile; cellular; customer preference; customer expectation; churning factors; selection of service provider; customer retention. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=99209 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:2/3:p:105-121 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ankur Biswas Author-X-Name-First: Ankur Author-X-Name-Last: Biswas Author-Name: Paritosh Bhattacharya Author-X-Name-First: Paritosh Author-X-Name-Last: Bhattacharya Author-Name: Santi Prasad Maity Author-X-Name-First: Santi Prasad Author-X-Name-Last: Maity Title: A smart system of 3D liver tumour segmentation Abstract: An efficient segmentation of liver tumour and volumetry facilitates medical experts to resolve the rate of tumour growth and follow up treatment. In this paper, a smart system for semi-automatic segmentation of liver tumour from medical images based on Geodesic active contours using level set method is proposed. The system passes through following stages. After the image is loaded, the Region of Interest (ROI) is selected and the Geodesic Active Contours with level set methods are initialised. Then segmentation result is updated to extract the tumour in three dimensions. The liver tumours detected by the system were compared with those delineated manually by experts, used as the ground truth results. The system was evaluated on Computed Tomography images of different datasets of tumours and compared with other methods. The result of proposed system obtained the Dice SC 0.948 and Jaccard SC 0.902 exhibits the steadfastness and effectiveness of the system. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 89-104 Issue: 2/3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: semi-automatic segmentation; medical images; geodesic active contour; level set; ROI; region of interest; computed tomography; dice SC; Jaccard SC. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=99210 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:2/3:p:89-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Suman Bhakar Author-X-Name-First: Suman Author-X-Name-Last: Bhakar Author-Name: Devershi Pallavi Bhatt Author-X-Name-First: Devershi Pallavi Author-X-Name-Last: Bhatt Title: Development of marker-based augmented reality system for object detection in an optimum latency time Abstract: Augmented reality is an emerging technique to monitor real-time environment to take a decision based on the collected data. With the advancement in the concept of augmented reality and rapid development of robots, there is a need to develop a system or a method to reduce the latency in the most challenging conditions. Although, now some applications are using marker less augmented reality technique due to complications in object detection and tracking in Boston dynamics (robotics) and real-time application we relied on fiducial marker based system. This paper mainly proposes an AR system which explains a guideline to detect the fiducial marker by an object (unidirectional movement) at minimum latency time. In this experiment, fiducial marker detection and position orientation with respect to the camera has been processed by 'Aforge.NET Framework' in combination with C# language and pose estimation. We designed machine marker detection algorithm and mathematics equation which compute the latency time in different challenging conditions lux, distance frame per second of camera in an optimum latency time. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 185-200 Issue: 2/3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: fiducial marker; POSIT; object detection; latency time; camera; augmented reality; lux; distance. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=99211 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:2/3:p:185-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shiva Tyagi Author-X-Name-First: Shiva Author-X-Name-Last: Tyagi Author-Name: Devendra Kumar Author-X-Name-First: Devendra Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Author-Name: Sachin Kumar Author-X-Name-First: Sachin Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Title: Layered approach of analysing OSS and risk management Abstract: In a simple language a software product where in the availability of the source code of the software is available in the public domain is referred to as an Open Source Software (OSS). Some of the models proposed in the papers published in different international journals are discussed in this paper. Some statistical data concerning open source software and the related shortcomings have also been covered. A detailed and a thorough comparison of the OSS with the closed source software, their advantages vis-à-vis the disadvantages and certain other aspects have also been carried out making it simpler and understandable by the readers. Quality assurance being of prime importance in any field is a must and like any other feature it gains the same amount of importance in this field as well. This paper facilitates the readers and researchers to understand and analyse OSS with suitable examples. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 146-161 Issue: 2/3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: OSS; open source software; quality assurance; risk management; OSS developers. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=99212 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:2/3:p:146-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: S. Sam Chelladurai Author-X-Name-First: S. Sam Author-X-Name-Last: Chelladurai Author-Name: Rajesh Ranganathan Author-X-Name-First: Rajesh Author-X-Name-Last: Ranganathan Author-Name: B. Sanjay Gandhi Author-X-Name-First: B. Sanjay Author-X-Name-Last: Gandhi Title: Manufacturing simulation of alternate additive manufacturing method using cubes with CATIA macro programming Abstract: The present additive manufacturing methods limit to size and the time taken to manufacture the components is also limited because of the layering approach. A layer-less approach is proposed, which is based on arranging different sizes of cubes to achieve the final product. An algorithm is developed and manufacturing feasibility is simulated using CATIA software and its macros. It was found that the components can be manufactured using this additive manufacturing method without the layer approach. The proposed additive manufacturing method and the algorithm can be applied to additive manufacturing situations demanding very large components to be manufactured with less amount of time. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 162-184 Issue: 2/3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: additive manufacturing; large scale prototyping; information system in additive manufacturing; computer application in mechanical engineering. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=99213 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:2/3:p:162-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Badrina Gasmi Boumezoued Author-X-Name-First: Badrina Gasmi Author-X-Name-Last: Boumezoued Author-Name: Nacer Boudjlida Author-X-Name-First: Nacer Author-X-Name-Last: Boudjlida Title: A cloud based architecture for competence management and discovery Abstract: This work aims to define a method based on conceptual graphs formalism for competence management, and then apply the method for competence discovery and composition on distributed competence and knowledge bases. The paper contributes towards competence and knowledge management literature in two ways. The first contribution is first to formally represent the competences and second to define detailed algorithms for competence discovery and composition. The second contribution is in defining a conceptual architecture for the system of competence management and discovery based on the cloud in order to face the problems related to scalability, to take profit of the benefits of cloud computing technology and as a basis for the proof of concepts. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 122-145 Issue: 2/3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: competence management; competence discovery; competence representation; cloud computing; conceptual graphs; SaaS; composite answers; mediators federation; query satisfaction; query decomposition. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=99215 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:2/3:p:122-145 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kushagra Kulshreshtha Author-X-Name-First: Kushagra Author-X-Name-Last: Kulshreshtha Author-Name: Naval Bajpai Author-X-Name-First: Naval Author-X-Name-Last: Bajpai Author-Name: Vikas Tripathi Author-X-Name-First: Vikas Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi Author-Name: Gunjan Sharma Author-X-Name-First: Gunjan Author-X-Name-Last: Sharma Title: Consumer preference for eco-friendly appliances in trade-off: a conjoint analysis approach Abstract: Taking an emerging 'green' perspective into consideration, the primary purpose of this research paper is to examine the impact of green-labels used with routine product attributes on consumer preference. In addition, an attempt is made examining the utility score and relative importance of the different attributes' levels of high involvement products. Findings show that consumers' preference varied based on green-labels used for products under green initiatives taken by companies. When the consumers were given the option to choose, they considered green-distribution label more effective in addressing the environmental issues over others. Given the limited academic interest in the area, this study contributes to the literature by providing insights into tier-I, tier-II and tier-III consumers' preferences and facilitates the manufacturers and marketers using these green-labels during new product development (NPD). This research is useful for consumer durable industry to plan its strategies as per the findings for high involvement products. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 212-243 Issue: 2/3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: brand; consumer preference; consumer durables; green-brand; green supply chain management; green manufacturing; green logistic; India; price; product; sustainability; utility score; part-worth; conjoint analysis; ANOVA. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=99237 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:23:y:2019:i:2/3:p:212-243 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. Esther Hannah Author-X-Name-First: M. Esther Author-X-Name-Last: Hannah Title: A hybrid classification-based model for automatic text summarisation using machine learning approaches: CBS-ID3MV Abstract: A hybrid approach for the generation of automatic text summarisation is achieved through CBS-ID3MV. A classification-based model using ID3 and multivariate (CBS-ID3MV) approach produces summaries from the text documents through classification and multiple linear regression. Efficient feature selection and extraction methods identify text features from each sentence, for the purpose of classifying summary sentences. The CBS-ID3MV model is trained with DUC 2002 training documents and the proposed approach's performance is measured at several compression rates namely 10%, 20% and 30% on the text data. The results got by the proposed framework works better when compared with other summarisers after evaluation using ROUGE metrics. Journal: Int. J. of Product Development Pages: 201-211 Issue: 2/3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Keywords: training; classification; machine learning; decision trees; feature extraction; summarisation; regression. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=99242 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. 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