A multi-domain analysis framework for product development

Joe A. Bradley, Ali A. Yassine

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    Abstract

    The 21st century brings many new challenges to the product development (PD) community mainly due to a drastic increase in the scale and complexity of engineered systems. This requires the collaboration of various entities and resources within and outside firm boundaries. To address these new challenges, this paper proposes a novel framework for an enterprise-wide PD information management system. The proposed framework provides an integrative view of the various dependencies and information flows that co-exist in three main PD analysis domains (i.e., people, products, and processes) and analysis methods for the discovery of gaps or 'misalignment' between them. These gaps could help explain why some organizations are able to provide more competitive products within a given industry. Moreover, the framework suggests that the characteristics of how an organization acquire data, interpret information, and apply knowledge will impact the final architecture of the product. Finally, we demonstrate this framework by analyzing an open source software (OSS) project, which offers some insights and new directions into how the transfer of data, information, and knowledge impacts the final (source code) architecture and design.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2008
    Pages481-493
    Number of pages13
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2008
    EventASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2008 - Brooklyn, NY, United States
    Duration: 3 Aug 20086 Aug 2008

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
    Volume4

    Conference

    ConferenceASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2008
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityBrooklyn, NY
    Period3/08/086/08/08

    Keywords

    • Design decomposition
    • Information integration
    • Network analysis
    • Product architecture
    • Product development

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