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Thesis defense of Patricia Lopez

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Thesis defense of Patricia Lopez

Title of the thesis: Sistemas Heterogéneos Integrados, Innovadores y Confiables: Metodología de Desarrollo. Obtained the SOBRESALIENTE rating.

2019·03·27

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  • Title of the thesis: Sistemas Heterogéneos Integrados, Innovadores y Confiables: Metodología de Desarrollo
  • PhD programme: DOCTORATE PROGRAMME IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND ELECTRICAL ENERGY
  • Thesis directors: Leire Etxeberria Elorza and Xabier Elkorobarrutia Letona
  • Court:
    • President: Goiuria Sagarduy Mendieta (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)
    • Vocal: Guillermo Miró Mezquita (Atten2 Advanced Monitoring Technologies)
    • Vocal: Markos Losada Gobantes (CEIT)
    • Vocal: Jon Mabe Alvarez (IK4-TEKNIKER)
    • Secretary: Aitor Arrieta Marcos (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)

Abstract

In the last years, new business opportunities for developers of ICT products (Information and Communication Technologies) have arisen. These opportunities are mainly motivated by the emergence of new visions such as Big Data, Industry 4.0 or any of the SMART paradigms (e.g., Smart Energy, Smart Health, Smart building, Smart City, etc.). These concepts not only promote a trend towards digitalization and connectivity, but they also demand increasingly
customized products, with better properties and greater technical, dependability and robustness requirements.

The development of products that comply with these characteristics require a very strict development processes that entail: (i) uncertainties, risks and emerging and evolving requirements; (ii) unforeseeable interactions intrinsic to the system’s heterogeneity and complexity; (iii) regulatory and market requirements; and (iv) the growing importance of time-to-market and project costs reduction in order to be competitive.

Although there are different development approaches which try to cover the above-mentioned challenges, it is not trivial to find a merged solution that assists the process of bringing innovative ideas to complex (heterogeneous) and dependable products, with limited resources (time and cost) for project execution. In this context, this thesis presents a methodology to assist in the development of innovative, heterogeneous and dependable systems. The proposed methodology combines and adapts: (i) new product development models; (ii) dependable systems development approaches; (iii) complex systems development approaches; and (iv) statistical process control techniques and key performance indicators.

The methodology is applied in two real case studies. The first development, called OilHealth-Probe, consist of an industrial sensor for lubrication fluids condition monitoring. The second case study compresses the development of a system for in-line colorimetric inspection of reactive chips, called RT-COLORS. Finally, obtained results are evaluated against developments with similar characteristics, in which the methodology proposed in this thesis was not applied.