Product Configuration on the Internet of Things

• With the Internet of Things (IoT), the configuration record is going to be a lot more dynamic. How are we to handle that?
• Defining the challenges IoT is posing on defining and managing configuration of products
• Considering how the configuration record of the product is designed and managed
• Engineering change management

Challenges of a sustainable implementation of modular toolkits

• Implications of modular product architectures on the organisational structure
• Realignment of processes to the toolkit
• Impact of the specific targets linked to the toolkit introduction
• Importance of a “Modular Thinking Organisation” and how transparent targets and success management help

The impact of agile development on variant management

• Software configuration management
• Current state of agile software development methods
• Adaptive software development

Tool based variant analysis and complexity forecast

• Planning and Mastering Product Variation: What is possible? What makes Sense?
• Simulation of effects
• Optimisation of Product Configuration

Modularisation for successful product-service-systems engineering

• Service-Systems Engineering
• Systematic Design and Modularisation of Complex Product-Service-Systems in Times of Digital Transformations
• Service Systems Engineering for Customer-Centric Product Solutions
• Design of Solutions in Multi-Stakeholder Environments
• Interfaces of Products and Services as well as Digital and Non-Digital Offerings
• The myth of system analysis – How model based system engineering methods help to control complexity

• Overview of the conceptual modeling process
• Guiding principles, Reusable, repeatable, generic processes and products
• Iterative, agile-informed development
• Decomposition to primitive elements, Conceptual modelling process elements
• Consistency, standardisation, traceability and organisation