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Identifying Controlling Features of Engineering Design Iteration

Identifying Controlling Features of Engineering Design Iteration Engineering design often involves a very complex set of relationships among a large number of coupled problems. It is this complex coupling that leads to iteration among the various engineering tasks in a large project. The design structure matrix (DSM) is useful in identifying where iteration is necessary. The work transformation matrix model developed in this paper is a powerful extension of the DSM method which can predict slow and rapid convergence of iteration within a project, and predict those coupled features of the design problem which will require many iterations to reach a technical solution. This model is applied to an automotive brake-system development process in order to illustrate the model's utility in describing the main features of an actual design process. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Management Science INFORMS

Identifying Controlling Features of Engineering Design Iteration

Management Science , Volume 43 (3): 18 – Mar 1, 1997
18 pages

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INFORMS
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Subject
Research Article
ISSN
0025-1909
eISSN
1526-5501
DOI
10.1287/mnsc.43.3.276
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Abstract

Engineering design often involves a very complex set of relationships among a large number of coupled problems. It is this complex coupling that leads to iteration among the various engineering tasks in a large project. The design structure matrix (DSM) is useful in identifying where iteration is necessary. The work transformation matrix model developed in this paper is a powerful extension of the DSM method which can predict slow and rapid convergence of iteration within a project, and predict those coupled features of the design problem which will require many iterations to reach a technical solution. This model is applied to an automotive brake-system development process in order to illustrate the model's utility in describing the main features of an actual design process.

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Management ScienceINFORMS

Published: Mar 1, 1997

Keywords: Keywords : product development ; engineering design ; design iteration ; design process modeling ; product development lead time

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