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Enterprise apps across the product life cycle
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Apps on mobile devices like smartphones have become the core of the
digital life of consumers. Apps are used, e. g., for shopping or
communicating in social networks. Recently, apps are gaining more
and more attention in enterprises as enabler for agile process
optimization. In this article, we discuss the potentials and
challenges of exploiting th...
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... LCDPs address this growing demand for company-specific software applications for processing information and digitizing processes. Furthermore, they support the trend towards the use of apps on mobile devices by creating essential prerequisites for programming "enterprise apps" (Gröger et al., 2013). ...
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... In order to help the engineers to use ISO GPS 2.0, some training courses were developed in the West, e.g. [7][8][9][10][11]. ...
Engineers worldwide use the ISO GPS (Geometrical Production Specification and Verification) as a common language to express and exchange the geometrical information of a product and its digital twin. This paper presents a survey of engineering education of the Geometrical Production Specification and Verification (ISO GPS) in China. The research was conducted in 2021, and the purpose is to better understand the current situation in the delivery and usage of ISO GPS. It consists of a literature review of 66 published textbooks, an online questionnaire from 325 educators/students/engineers, who are from five universities and a standardisation committee. The results of this survey are presented and discussed graphically. The results show that:1) there is a significant gap between the textbook teaching and the latest ISO GPS standards; 2) the frequency of the latest ISO GPS usage is relatively low; 3) the current delivery methods cannot address the requirements of end-users soundly. A discussion of the possible solution is presented as well.
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... To derive the subjective weights according to BWM, we firstly calculate the each expert's preferences of the best factor over other factorsà k B and their preference of other criteria over the worst criterionà k W according to the (7) and (8). Next, by calculating the model (9), the subjective weights of main criteria as well as sub-criteria at each expert are derived and shown in Table 2. ...
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... The increasing use of digital learning apps is part of a larger societal trend in which apps running on cellphones and tablets are serving multiple purposes in daily life ranging from mediating adolescents' social interactions to facilitating manufacturing (Gröger et al., 2013;Harari et al., 2019). With this wide range of uses, apps are being downloaded in high numbers (e.g., 205.4 billion mobile apps downloaded in 2018). ...
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... • Efficacy was defined as the ability to produce a desired or intended result [50]. • Technology apps were defined as applications for novel mobile consumer devices with a touchscreen, especially smartphones and tablet PCs [51]. In this review, the terms "app" is sued in the stricter sense with more on self-monitoring apps. ...
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... Mobile applications in organizations (Lunani, 2011;Gröger et Al., 2013;Clevenger, 2011) show that applications have great potential to improve business processes. Thus it can provide benefits on the efficiency of time, effort and cost. ...
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... 47 Vgl. Caus et al. (2010), S. 243, Gröger et al. (2013), Giessmann et al. (2012), Fitzek und Reichert (2007). 48 Vgl. ...
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