Excerpt from Toshiba's Fuchu Software Factory: Strategy, Technology, and Organization
A typical example of the problem Toshiba faced was an order to develop the hardware and software for what would be the world's first fully automated thermal power generating station for Tokyo Electric, the Hirano Plant. Not only did this require software running into several millions of lines of code. To achieve safe and untended operation, hardware and software reliability requirements were extremely stringent, placing tremendous demand's on Toshiba software capabilities.
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Excerpt from Toshiba's Fuchu Software Factory: Strategy, Technology, and Organization
A typical example of the problem Toshiba faced was an order to develop the hardware and software for what would be the world's first fully automated thermal power generating station for Tokyo Electric, the Hirano Plant. Not only did this require software running into several millions of lines of code. To achieve safe and untended operation, hardware and software reliability requirements were extremely stringent, placing tremendous demand's on Toshiba software capabilities.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Toshiba's Fuchu Software Factory: Strategy, Technology, and Organization
This paper is part of a larger study examining the question of whether or not companies are choosing to manage a complex engineering activity such as large-scale software development with a range of strategic considerations and organizational as well as technological approaches that corresponds to the spectrum usually associated with "hard" manufacturing, i.e. job shops, batch organizations, and factories exhibiting various degrees of flexibility in product mixes and technologies. The research project includes the proposal of technology and policy criteria defining what a factory environment for software might look like; a survey of major software facilities in the U.S. and Japan to determine where firms stand in relation to these criteria; and detailed case studies examining the technology and policy implementation process followed at firms identified as being close to the factory model.
There are several interrelated conclusions: (1) This spectrum, including factory approaches, is clearly observable in the sample of software facilities in the U.S. and Japan. (2) There appears to be nothing Inherent in software as a technology that prevents some firms from creating strategies and organizational structures to manage product and process development more effectively, even with a relatively new and complex technology such as software.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book examines the historical development of software factories within the Japanese Toshiba Corporation throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The author explores how Toshiba's software factory strategy, technology, and organizational structure evolved in response to demands for increased productivity, quality, and cost control. The book presents a detailed analysis of the SWE system, a set of tools and procedures that were developed to support the software factory environment, including design, programming, testing, quality assurance, project management, installation, and maintenance. The author also discusses the management systems used to promote reusability, process quality, and personnel development within the factory. By exploring the evolution of Toshiba's software factory, the book sheds light on the broader history of software engineering, the challenges of managing large-scale software development projects, and the potential benefits of adopting a factory approach to software production. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781332284825_0
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