ENGINEERING FRAMEWORKS: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC SURVEY-BASED PROBLEM INVENTORY

Effective, adaptable and extendable frameworks may be regarded a key technology for future sustainable whole-life holistic product approaches, like the development of intelligent products and the internet-of-things, agile manufacturing, smart product bundling, closed-loop life cycle management etc. Peculiar enough and in contrast with model, technology and knowledge, framework properties form an oddly neglected engineering research area, despite the fact that frameworks are being proposed by the dozens. The question arises as to what the scientific content of this vast body of frameworks represents in terms of engineering knowledge and how this knowledge can be made applicable in a more sustainable manner. Also, framework analysis can support the design and use of standards, protocols, ontology's and other formalizations. We show early outcomes of a comprehensive data mining effort into frameworks, their prevailing schools, burst terms and part-of-speech-based terms-in-contexts that could help identifying factors indicative of a frameworks validity, adaptability and industrial applicability. We analyzed bibliographic parameters of recent full articles on thousands of frameworks in product development, product design, supply chain and manufacturing from Scopus and ScienceDirect after 2000, using a framework crawler. In search of what syntactically describes a framework we postulate associative abstract framework description patterns associating the propositional knowledge part with the prescriptive knowledge part of the framework description. Online framework search and analysis shows to be an effective enabling technology to lever a more sustainable (re)use of frameworks. Over the long haul, it is also believed to enable the formation of federations of frameworks and contract-based transformation of frameworks.

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