Zhenyong Wu

Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology

Industrial 4.0 (I4.0) is believed to revolutionize supply chain (SC) management and the articles in this domain have experienced remarkable increments in recent years. However, the existing insights are scattered over different sub-topics and most of the existing review papers have ignored the underground decision-making process using OR methods. T...

The rapid emergence and widespread adoption of next-generation information technologies have led to a growing recognition of the need for digitalized warehouse designs. However, creating a digital replica of a physical warehouse in a virtual environment is a complex task. This research introduces a framework for designing smart warehouses based on...

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has received extensive attention by academia and industries recently. However, there are increasing yet still scarce studies measuring the social sustainability performance of supply chain and discussing the interrelationship between social and economic sustainability. Further, the measurement does not ful...

Manufacturing firms today co-exist in a complex collaboration network with their partners, who often seek help from external knowledge services to co-develop more competitive products. Thus, knowing how to accurately and rapidly acquire such knowledge to sustainably improve the quality of knowledge services are critical to maintaining the competiti...

New product development is knowledge intensive as it needs the work teams and design engineers located at various locations to constantly share, update, and re-use knowledge. As such, improving the efficiency of acquiring knowledge and coping with the challenge of frequently retrieving related knowledge have become a key factor to managing knowledg...

To solve the problems of high time cost caused by the low efficiency of knowledge acquisition, this paper proposes a knowledge service framework based on case set. Three knowledge retrieval methods are designed based on parts keywords, customer orders and manufacturing processes. Additionally, a VSM-based(vetor space model) knowledge recommender me...

Efforts will be made to improve the innovative design capabilities of advanced manufacturing industries and strategic emerging industries. Major breakthroughs will be made in key technologies and system integration innovation capabilities in the fields of electronic information, high-end equipment, new energy, new materials, aerospace, rail transpo...

To improve the harvesting performance of bi-stable energy harvesters, this paper proposes a novel bi-stable piezoelectric energy harvester which consists of a piezoelectric cantilever beam with a tip magnet and a movable magnet. The movable magnet connects to the base through a spring and is allowed to move along the spring compression direction. T...

The product development knowledge stored in manufacturing firms can be obtained and re-used to assist the development engineers in new product development and facilitate the use of knowledge resources, which in turn enhances the quality and reduces the time-cost of product innovation. This study presents a knowledge service integrated framework for...

Sustainable supply chain management plays an important role in company’s sustainability success. As the frequently emerging disruptions may harm supply chain’s sustainable performance, managers need to design an effective sustainable supply chain (SSC) resilience solution to mitigate different risks. In addition, it is critical to integrate custome...

Knowledge recommendation has become a trend to improve the efficiency of acquiring knowledge during product development. As such, coping with the challenge of constantly discovering new knowledge is critical for knowledge reuse. This article proposes a knowledge recommendation framework based on design tasks, to facilitate the capturing and sharing...

The product development process is knowledge intensive, involving the retrieval and reuse of sometimes heterogeneous knowledge. As the exchange of this knowledge can be challenging in a distributed environment, this paper presents a two-stage approach to integrate and share product knowledge effectively. The first stage is ontology integration. Thr...

In an effort to address the inherent deficiencies of traditional Kano model and quality function deployment (QFD), this paper proposes an improved Kano model named as importance-frequency Kano (IF-Kano) model and integrates IF-Kano model into QFD. Considering the interaction between frequencies and importance weights of customer requirements (CRs),...

The fatigue life prediction of metallic materials is always a tough problem that needs to be solved in the mechanical engineering field because it is very important for the secure service of mechanical components. In this paper, a combined nonlinear ultrasonic parameter based on the collinear wave mixing technique is applied for fatigue life predic...

More companies are facing challenges in extracting and utilizing knowledge in product lifecycle. To solve this problem, a product lifecycle–oriented knowledge service framework is proposed based on the status review. The proposed framework is supported by four key methods and processes, which include mechanism of knowledge service identification, m...

This paper presents a framework of innovation management for product–service system (PSS). Manufacturers today tend to place more emphasis on adding value to customers through PSS innovation due to competitions and environment regulations. However, PSS development is a kind of complex innovation facing challenges such as heterogeneity of stakeholde...

Information technology has promoted our society gradually into knowledge economy from product economy. Value creation requires more and more knowledge and information to support enterprise activities. Knowledge management (KM) as an activity has already existed, and will make the organisation and individual have stronger competition strength, and m...

This study aims at improving the effectiveness of failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) technique. FMEA is a widely used technique for identifying and eliminating known or potential failures from system, design, and process. However, in conventional FMEA, risk factors of Severity (S), Occurrence (O), and Detection difficulty (D) are simply multip...

Product development is a highly creative and knowledge-intensive process that involves extensive information and knowledge exchange and sharing among geographically distributed teams and developers. How to best integrate such heterogeneous product knowledge has become an extremely important knowledge management (KM) subject associated with product...

Failure mode and effect analysis FMEA technique has been extensively used as a powerful tool for identifying and assessing potential failures in different phases of the product life cycle. However, the conventional FMEA has been criticised much for its deficiencies in measurement scale, computation of risk priority numbers RPN, risk factors’ weight...

This research mainly focuses on the customer requirements’ evaluation in the early development of industrial product-service system (IPS2). IPS2 can maintain and enhance manufacturer’s competitiveness by integrating tangible product and intangible service. Accurately capturing and understanding customer requirement are critical for successfully dev...

This study aims at improving the quality and effectiveness of concept evaluation in the early phases of new product development. New product concept evaluation has long been recognised as one of the most crucial decisions for the success of product development, because it has significant impact on the downstream development activities. However, eva...

Nuclear power product manufactories are continually striving to reduce both the amount and the cost of product maintenance, whilst at the same time ensuring that the nuclear power product safety, reliability, and integrity are not compromised. The demand for high-quality and low-cost products with short development time, especially for complex nucl...

The necessity of integrating users into innovation process is widely researched. However, there is little literature on risks of users’ integration. Thus, a risk management framework for users’ integration in product innovation process is established based on the characteristics of user’s collaborative work. Meanwhile, key techniques, methods and p...

Collaboration learning and monitoring the learning procedure are an important key to improve effectiveness and to increase the success rate of the learner in the organizational learning. The requirement of collaboration learning and monitoring the procedure were analyzed and outlined first in this paper, the E-learning system for organizational lea...

The paper put forward a method for the evaluation of multi-supplier quality competitiveness (MSQC) based on Triangular Fuzzy Number-Analytic Hierarchy Process (TFN-AHP) method with the purpose of distinguishing the evaluation between new material of new supplier, new material of old supplier, old material of new supplier and old material of old sup...

As present trends in economic and population growth continue, the natural environment is increasingly being stressed. Serious adverse impacts on the environment and human health from waste of electrical and electronic products have occurred in the past and continue to occur today. More and more researchers, institutes and programmes paid attention...

The development of new product with low cost and reliable quality is one of important means to improve customer satisfaction and increase manufactures’ profits. It is necessary to identify the key factors affecting product defects and control them early in the new product development (NPD) process with defect prediction methods, because defect pred...

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) method has been used to study the reliability of many different power generation systems, making it easier to take actions to overcome such issues, thus enhancing the reliability through design. A FMEA Knowledge Base System was designed and realized in this paper, and this system was used to design new stea...

Since the early 1990s, the driver in our economy has been changing from production of material goods to product-service offers based on knowledge and information. More and more researchers, institutes, and programs paid attention to product service systems (PSS) in the last decade because PSS integrates tangible artifact and intangible service to a...

This paper studied service parts inventory control policy of a large equipment manufacturer which is on the transformation to service-embedded manufacturing. In order to get win-win solution for both supplier and client, a new cooperation pattern of service parts management was proposed. And a service parts model of multi-echelon inventory system i...