TY - JOUR
T1 - Engineering design management
T2 - An information structure approach
AU - Yassine, A.
AU - Falkenburg, D.
AU - Chelst, K.
PY - 1999/9
Y1 - 1999/9
N2 - It is characteristic of engineering design that precedence relationships among the constituent design tasks contain information flow conflicts. The existence of these conflicts with the lack of formal methods to manage them render the development cycle time unpredictable. This paper discusses a qualitative approach to engineering design management from an information structure perspective. The objective is to model, analyse and manage the interactions manifested by the information exchanges within the design process. We introduce the notion of Structural Sensitivity Analysis (SSA), which is devised based on two measures of information dependency among design tasks: Sensitivity and Variability. Those two measures of dependency enhance the classical design structure matrix method and allow for more complex analysis to be performed.
AB - It is characteristic of engineering design that precedence relationships among the constituent design tasks contain information flow conflicts. The existence of these conflicts with the lack of formal methods to manage them render the development cycle time unpredictable. This paper discusses a qualitative approach to engineering design management from an information structure perspective. The objective is to model, analyse and manage the interactions manifested by the information exchanges within the design process. We introduce the notion of Structural Sensitivity Analysis (SSA), which is devised based on two measures of information dependency among design tasks: Sensitivity and Variability. Those two measures of dependency enhance the classical design structure matrix method and allow for more complex analysis to be performed.
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U2 - 10.1080/002075499190374
DO - 10.1080/002075499190374
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032658132
SN - 0020-7543
VL - 37
SP - 2957
EP - 2975
JO - International Journal of Production Research
JF - International Journal of Production Research
IS - 13
ER -