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Component Certification - What is the Value?

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Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2002)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2559))

Abstract

Component-based software is becoming increasingly popular as a means to create value through improved integration across multiple parts of a plant or business. However, sometimes components that are supposed to be integrated cannot be integrated in the same way that the user envisions at time of acquiring the component. Certification of components is one way of ensuring that components adhere to certain standards for integration. This study presents findings from two case studies assessing the value of one particular certification program from ABB, called Industrial IT Enabled. A method for facilitating complex decision-making, Incomplete Pairwise Comparison (IPC), has been used to identify the relative value of Industrial IT Enabled for customers, as well as for ABB itself. Results indicate that the certification provides practically significant added value to customers, as well as to ABB. It is believed that these results, to some extent, can be valid in other similar certification programs.

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  1. ABB, Corporate Research Center, N-1375, Billingstad, Norway

    Lars Bratthall & Lars Gundersen

  2. ABB Automation Technology Products, S-721 67, Västerås, Sweden

    Johan Hasselberg

  3. ABB Automation Technology Products, CH-8050, Zürich, Switzerland

    Brad Hoffman

  4. ABB, Corporate Research Center, 31–038, Kraków, Poland

    Zbigniew Korendo

  5. ABB, Corporate Research Center, D-68526, Ladenburg, Germany

    Bruno Schilli

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  1. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014, Oulun yliopisto, Finland

    Markku Oivo

  2. VTT Electronics, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1100, 90571, Oulu, Finland

    Seija Komi-Sirviö

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Bratthall, L., Hasselberg, J., Hoffman, B., Korendo, Z., Schilli, B., Gundersen, L. (2002). Component Certification - What is the Value?. In: Oivo, M., Komi-Sirviö, S. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2559. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36209-6_12

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