Today's competitive businesses need a structured mechanism to assess risk probability, measure potential business impact, establish risk mitigation strategies as well as sense and respond to disruptive events...
and remain ahead of the curve. The maturity journey of Infosys’ supply chain risk management provides a more systemic and predictive way to pro-actively mitigate impending disruptions at the highest level of maturity.
The increased complexity of manufacturing supply chains has led to extended lead times, increased pipeline inventory as well as the need to control...
both downstream and upstream logistics. Supply chain visibility can be a strong differentiator in such a scenario.
Most large organizations require global interactions on a day-to-day, if not hour-by-hour basis. The increasing complexity of such interactions leads to business delays and gaps in strategy. Organizations can facilitate immersive...
experiences by using virtual operations centers that leverage mobility and cloud computing. This will simplify complex, global multi-party interactions by creating a same-room effect and almost-physical collaboration.
Business intelligence systems - as they currently exist - are adept at gathering and analyzing data, but fall short of looking to the future. Infosys' business analytics approach ...
provides the processes, tools and expertise to maximize the business value of information investments.
Globalization has made supply chains grow exponentially with increasing complexity. While companies focus on optimization, recent events are exposing vulnerabilities in supply chains. This paper...
outlines a disciplined approach to manage risks in global supply chains. It explains how supply chain organizations can assess risk probability, measure potential business impact and establish relevant mitigation strategies
Several factors are affecting innovation in the manufacturing industry - across processes, product development, outsourcing engagements, and even IT services. Among these factors are digital...
consumers in the automotive industry, the food and farming revolution, decision making using business intelligence (BI), cloud, supply chain, collaboration, and enterprise mobility.
The aircraft industry continuously reinvents itself to reduce acquisition, operational and maintenance costs while meeting stringent performance requirements. The challenge is to design light weight aircrafts with reduced maintenance costs. It is essential to...
maintain readiness levels of the aging fleet to maintain profitability. This paper discusses the new realm of predictive maintenance known as in-situ structural health monitoring. Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) helps in realizing slender and light weight structures leading to reduced fuel costs, long term cost savings in maintenance and extended fleet life.
A volatile marketplace and the ever-increasing complexity of supply chain owing to globalization and dispersed operations are making a slew of demands on manufacturers around the world. Manufacturers are turning to Cloud to...
gain a winning edge, majorly for the ability to drive innovation and growth. The Cloud has the power to change the way products are made, by accelerating the development lifecycle, enabling seamless collaboration and creating a smooth and agile supply chain. This paper discusses how Cloud computing - representing a paradigm shift for manufacturers who strive for a smarter IT organization and business processes - provides an answer.
Whether an organization manufactures or resells a product, the responsibility to comply makes the manufacturer and the reseller legally accountable. Product compliance is a constantly evolving ...
process, whose role is enhanced in product proliferations and complex supply chains. The recent increase in compliance-related penalties, fines, and recalls, has left no room for non-compliance. Manufacturers, retailers and suppliers are pressed to innovate quickly to not only create compliant products, but also to declare it ‘compliant’ by placing it on store shelves. Our expert presents perspectives on product risks and their changing dimensions, product compliance, and its declaration.
Smart organizations are focusing on increasing workforce flexibility and productivity by enabling information access for critical decision-making anytime, anywhere. While mobile solutions are imperative across domains and verticals, several parameters...
need to be considered while choosing a platform or middleware to implement the mobile solution. This perspective attempts at addressing the benefits of enterprise mobility. It explains how the combined approach of SAP and Sybase Unwired Platform addresses both the present and future needs of an organization
As business models continue to evolve, organizations realize that there is no single approach towards enterprise architecture. Business landscape, employees and their experience influence enterprise...
decisions. In this view point, our experts recommend a combination of approaches resulting in roadmap and effective roll out of Cloud Computing program towards realizing enterprise vision.
Aerospace companies need to constantly collaborate with customers and suppliers to ensure that they design and build the right products and offer relevant services. Social Computing creates the context for online collaboration...
through software and technology. According to Infosys’ expert, Social Computing creates business networks across organizations and geographies facilitating companies to share information and collaborate through multiple channels. Social Computing also reduces implementation complexities and cost of collaboration while enhancing confidentiality and security.
Manufacturers must reduce the cost of product development and R&D to compete effectively in the Flat World. Automotive, machine tools and equipment, and mechanical and electronic sub-system manufacturers have successfully adopted...
outsourcing strategies. Companies, however, continue to face challenges when they outsource design and engineering projects. Before embarking on an outsourcing initiative, companies must evaluate issues such as governmental regulations, incentives and permissions, organizational culture towards outsourcing, and management support. In this white paper, Infosys' expert provides a practitioner's perspective of the challenges that manufacturers face when they outsource design and engineering activities.
Adopting the right sourcing model – captive center vs. vendor partner – can reduce the Total Cost of Ownership and provide long-term flexibility for engineering product development.
Archaic data, manual entry, untimely data updates, low visibility and complex compliance requirements can impede the performance of your enterprise. In this paper, Infosys' experts demonstrate how RFID provides a ...
collaborative environment to synchronize the physical flow of goods and related information. They propose a four-step approach for companies to re-engineer business processes and achieve a sustainable business model.
The Aerospace industry is interestingly poised as demand is primed to outstrip supply. Efforts to increase supply must contend with higher development costs and increased time-to-market, caused at least in part by a scarcity of engineering skills....
In response, the industry is looking to build a business model that can easily scale up and down in response to the variability in demand. Global product development is a key element of such a flexible, scalable model that offers benefits such as increased speed-to-market, lower costs and enhanced flexibility. The key to successfully implementing a robust global product development capability lies in taking a modular approach to conceptualizing, building and managing a global model for Engineering.
CAD data quality plays an important part in today's modern design environment. With data arriving into the Digital Mock-Up (DMU) from a globally dispersed design community, it is imperative that the CAD data is of the right quality to serve any useful purpose....
CAD data quality falls into two main categories:
- Conformance to pre-defined standards and
- Geometric integrity
Failure in either of the categories will cause the DMU to be inaccurate and not fulfill its task, leading to expensive reworks in real life. Companies and organizations are beginning to recognize the repercussions stemming from inadequate data to their business and are taking appropriate corrective measures.
This article was originally published in The Journal of the
Institution of Engineering Designers 
(May/June 05)
Reproduced with permission from the Institute of Engineering Designers.
Carbon reinforced composites (CFC) or Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics (CFRP) are used extensively in aircraft structures as they give high stiffness and strength with lower weight. In this paper we consider a shear loaded square panel representing...
a segment of a composite (T300/914C) rib containing a reinforced circular cutout. Flanged holes considered are similar to those present in typical aluminum ribs and spars. A study of the effect of various reinforcement parameters is made both on strength and stability using MSC.Nastran. Studies show that use of CFC in such situations leads to weight savings.
Optimization of large-scale practical structures is a challenge even to this day. Mathematical programming techniques have been found to be inadequate for the solution of large practical problems with different types of structural elements and design variables....
Genetic Algorithms (GAs), owing to its robustness and global nature along with other advantages over mathematical techniques are being increasingly used for solution of such problems. However, using GAs for large-scale optimization could be very expensive due to its requirement of large number of function evaluations for convergence. This would result in a prohibitive cost for computation of functional evaluations even with the best computational resources available today. A response surface method for GA-based structural optimization is presented in this paper to enable a solution to large practical optimization problems. The proposed method for function approximation is simple and effective. The method has no limitations on number of design variables in the problem. The method was illustrated by optimizing a ten bar truss with 10 design variables and a fuselage of a light transport aircraft. The optimum values obtained from function approximation approach were found to be in good agreement with that obtained from search without function approximations. The total number of actual evaluations was reduced by 86% in the large-scale problem, which is a significant saving in computational time. This method is very promising and can be a tremendous advantage for GA based optimization of large-scale practical structures.