Decisions And Characteristics During The Development Process Of A Software Demonstrator For Data Analysis In Production Logistics
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T1 - Decisions And Characteristics During The Development Process Of A Software Demonstrator For Data Analysis In Production Logistics
AU - Maier, Janine Tatjana
AU - Berger, Simon
AU - Heuer, Tammo
AU - Nyhuis, Peter
AU - Schmidt, Matthias
N1 - Conference code: 2
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Software demonstrators enable the transfer of theoretical concepts into industrial practice and therefore are used in various research areas. Although the stages of the development of a software demonstrator are already described in literature, it lacks an examination of fundamental decisions and characteristics throughout the development process. Characteristics, such as transparency, hold across all research areas and industries. A specification and extension depends on the individual use case. This paper describes the necessary decisions regarding the framework of a software demonstrator for data analysis in the field of production logistics and the characteristics applicable before and during the actual implementation of the software demonstrator. Key decisions are for example the design of the software architecture or the choice of the programming language. The characteristics equal the requirements to a certain extent and relate directly to the users and to the application itself. Discussions with companies from a wide range of industries revealed underlying conflicts and diverse priorities in terms of the aspects of functionality. Especially the size of the company seems to play an important role regarding the expectations of a software demonstrator. Therefore, the integration of potential future users into the development process of a software demonstrator presents a major advantage. It reduces the number of cycling stages at the end of the development process and increases the willingness to use the software demonstrator after its completion. As the objectives behind software demonstrators can highly differ in the field of production logistics, concepts of demonstrators and software engineering and the related objectives were examined. A demonstrator for determining the order processing strategy serves as an example of how these different approaches interrelate.
AB - Software demonstrators enable the transfer of theoretical concepts into industrial practice and therefore are used in various research areas. Although the stages of the development of a software demonstrator are already described in literature, it lacks an examination of fundamental decisions and characteristics throughout the development process. Characteristics, such as transparency, hold across all research areas and industries. A specification and extension depends on the individual use case. This paper describes the necessary decisions regarding the framework of a software demonstrator for data analysis in the field of production logistics and the characteristics applicable before and during the actual implementation of the software demonstrator. Key decisions are for example the design of the software architecture or the choice of the programming language. The characteristics equal the requirements to a certain extent and relate directly to the users and to the application itself. Discussions with companies from a wide range of industries revealed underlying conflicts and diverse priorities in terms of the aspects of functionality. Especially the size of the company seems to play an important role regarding the expectations of a software demonstrator. Therefore, the integration of potential future users into the development process of a software demonstrator presents a major advantage. It reduces the number of cycling stages at the end of the development process and increases the willingness to use the software demonstrator after its completion. As the objectives behind software demonstrators can highly differ in the field of production logistics, concepts of demonstrators and software engineering and the related objectives were examined. A demonstrator for determining the order processing strategy serves as an example of how these different approaches interrelate.
KW - Engineering
KW - Software demonstrator
KW - Decision making
KW - Application-related characteristics
KW - User-related characteristics
KW - Order processing strategy
UR - https://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/11315
UR - https://doi.org/10.15488/11229
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85163972902&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.15488/11277
DO - 10.15488/11277
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
T3 - Proceedings of the ... Conference on Production Systems and Logistics
SP - 514
EP - 523
BT - Conference on Production Systems and Logistics
A2 - Herberger, D.
A2 - Hübner, M.
PB - publish-Ing.
CY - Offenburg
T2 - 2nd Conference on Production Systems and Logistics - CPSL 2021
Y2 - 10 August 2021 through 11 August 2021
ER -