From a sustainable development perspective, continuous industrial growth is an important issue. In recent years, it has become difficult for companies to survive in increasingly competitive and rapidly changing business environment. To align with these changes, must not only transform their own organizations but also current domains. However, leading company alone existing While known that the transformation of area requires cooperation partners, mechanism ecosystems unclear. solve this...

Internet of Things (IoT) is now making a new industrial revolution, which includes "Industrie4.0" in Germany, "Industrial Internet" US, "Made China 2025" China, and the Value Chain Initiative (IVI)" Japan. In modern global, competitive, collaborative business environment, IoT services must be designed as ecosystem. Although many business-model design methods, including our own method presented PICMET2015, have been proposed, there exist few business-ecosystem methods that target especially....

International logistics is becoming increasingly active. Marine transportation, in particular, accounts for approximately 90% of the total volume managed international and plays a vital role supply chains many companies. However, en route factors, such as weather conditions, often delay scheduled arrivals at destination ports, an accurate prediction arrival time required chain efficiency. The has been predicted previous studies by calculating to port voyage speed without considering...

Recently, manufacturing companies have been moving into product-based service businesses in addition to providing the products themselves. However, it is not easy for engineers create new because their skills, mental models, design processes, and organization are optimized product design. In order services more effectively efficiently, systematic methodologies suitable necessary. Based on case analysis of than 40 Japan-US services, this paper introduces a methodology called DFACE-SI....

In 2010, JST/RISTEX in Japan started a new R&D program "Service Science, Solutions and Foundation Integrated Research Program". The authors are engaged research project "Innovation for Service Space Communication by Voice Tweets Nursing Caring" selected this program, developing stress-free information assisting system based on smart voice messaging. By providing messaging environment optimized current situation of nurses, the helps nurses their cooperation, knowledge sharing, making work...

Recently, manufacturing companies have been moving into product-based service businesses in addition to providing the products themselves. However, it is not easy for engineers create new because their skills, mental models, design processes, and organization are optimized product design. In order services more effectively efficiently, systematic methodologies suitable necessary. Based on case analysis of than 40 Japan-US services, this paper introduces a methodology called DFACE-SI....

Slowing sales growth for new products and falling profit margins have made adding services to an increasingly attractive means of competitive differentiation manufacturing-based companies. In response this trend, paper examines ways that companies can leverage their core competencies design as business. It explores why a company should go into service businesses in the first place. From surveys, interviews financial analyses multiple companies, we discovered often stabilise total revenue...

A type of services that require human physical actions and intelligent decision making exists in various real fields, such as nursing hospitals caregiving homes. The authors' group call "physical adaptive services," is developing an IT-based system aims to assist cooperation knowledge sharing among staffs. In this paper, we propose a new method for analyzing changes the behavior staffs before/after introducing system. based on probabilistic modeling staffs' behavior. Using event-logs...

In recent years, companies and society have undergone a rapid digital transformation, "digital twin" is the key technology for utilizing various information knowledge in both physical cyber spaces. However, sensor data that can be collected by IoT (Internet of Things) only small aspect space. particular, on-site human working fields, such as nursing care, agriculture, manufacturing, maintenance, inspection (we call them "Gen-Ba"), there exists vast amount ("Gen-Ba knowledge") humans possess...

Digital Transformation (DX) is spreading across all industries. AI, especially machine learning, inevitable for effective use of data collected and stored in DX, systems that utilize learning have been developed various industries companies. The development application (MLASs) has many difficulties different from the traditional IT system development. Therefore, software engineering (especially project management) MLASs becomes one most important issues these days. We classified MLAS based...

In the current competitive global business environment, collaboration in an ecosystem becomes very important to strengthen a company's core competencies. We classify resources into three types: knowledge resources, manufacturing and deployment resources. There are several types of including offshore outsourcing research development (R&D), collaborative R&D, mergers acquisitions, connect develop activities, licensing. This study focuses on where R&D bridge managers play role. clarify role...

Innovation in the Internet of Things (IoT) provides various opportunities for large, medium, and small-sized companies; however, its realization is still challenging these companies. Therefore, an engineering design methodology IoT innovation required, especially non-information communication technology experts. In this paper, we call method "IoT method," discuss requirements perspectives with reference to previous studies. Then, paper proposes a concrete example. This contributes existing...

Recently, technology roadmaps have been actively constructed by various organizations such as governments, industry segments, academic societies and companies [1]. While the common basic purpose of these is sharing recognition among stakeholders, there exists a specific role for each organization. One important roles to show directions in which society moving. The IEICE technical group on Concurrent System Technology (CST) established 1993 stands at turning point needs move forward new after...

Thanks to the popularization of information and communication technology, nurses work using mobile devices communicate with co-workers record nursing care at hospital. In this paper, aiming facilitate care, we propose a method recognize activities by topic models from acceleration data stored in knowledge work. contrast simple tasks such as walking or running, working are more difficult because their complexity length. To address difficulty, define system composed two layers, task...