Towards a Systematic Repository of Knowledge about Managing Collaborative Design Conflicts

Product design needs great team efforts from multi-disciplinary participants, even external partners, for collaborative problem solving. Design conflicts within and between functional teams do occur in such a collaborative design process. Detection and resolution of design conflicts through design conformance checking therefore becomes a critical activity in the joint design problem solving. This paper presents the development of a J2EE application prototype to support the STEP-based design conformance checking. A STEP-compliant information model has been specified to represent 3D CAD objects and other design information, while a knowledge representation model been proposed to describe design rules and constraints. The STEP objects and rule objects are managed and processed by the enterprise Java beans of a J2EE application server, which continuously applies the rule objects to the STEP objects and finally draws a conclusion for the design conformance checking. Application scenarios are discussed in the paper to illustrate the effectiveness of both the STEP/rule objects modeling approaches and the prototype system for support of the design compliance checking in distributed environment.

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An Innovative TRIZ-Based Methodology to Explore Design Conflicts for Collaborative Product Design

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.145.359 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 145 ◽

pp. 359-363 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tien Lun Liu

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Collaborative Design ◽

Product Complexity ◽

Product Lifecycle ◽

Team Members ◽

Current State ◽

Collaborative Product Design ◽

Engineering Parameters ◽

Design Requirements ◽

Design Conflicts

Due to the product complexity and time constraint, it is common to conduct a collaborative design process to consider design requirements concurrently from the product lifecycle. However, such multi-disciplinary integration process may lead to potential design conflicts which has to be further resolved as the development continues. In this research, we propose a novel analytic model by combining the concepts of Ideal Final Result (IFR) and Trends analysis in TRIZ theory to systematically find the possible design contradictions from a top-down approach. The IFR is used to represent the integration of the developing product requirements which are requested from the collaborative team members. We then apply Trends analysis to compare the current state of existing product and the IFR state of the developing product. Therefore after comparison we will transform the differences into 39 engineering parameters defined in TRIZ to acquire possible design contradictions among components. The contributions of this methodology not only derive design conflicts systematically, but also help designers jump out of their psychological inertia and perform the design process with IFR to achieve distinct innovation.

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Constraint-Based Multidisciplinary Collaborative Design Method of Gear Drive

Materials Science Forum ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.505-507.937 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 505-507 ◽

pp. 937-942

Author(s):

Liang Chen ◽

Cheng Hui Gao ◽

Guo Dong Jin

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Design ◽

Design Method ◽

Design Efficiency ◽

Gear Drive ◽

Design Iteration ◽

Computation Efficiency ◽

Propagation Algorithm ◽

Design Variables ◽

Design Conflicts

The essence of the multidisciplinary collaborative design problem (MCDP) is the coordination of the design variables among multiple disciplines on the basis of the all constraints of all disciplines. There exist some problems such as the early detection of design conflicts and the determination of the consistency domains of the design variables, etc. The resolving of these problems can help designers avoid bad decision-making, reduce the design iteration and improve the design efficiency. Aiming at the problems, this paper proposes a constraint-net model to describe and manage all the design variables and constrains of all disciplines, discusses the reformulating method of the MCDP to improve computation efficiency, and develops the interval propagation algorithm to determine the consistency domains of the design variables, etc. A gear drive is taken as an example to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Collaborative-Design Conflicts: Costs and Solutions

IEEE Software ◽

10.1109/ms.2018.290110057 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 35 (6) ◽

pp. 25-31

Author(s):

Jae young Bang ◽

Yuriy Brun ◽

Nenad Medvidovic

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Design ◽

Design Conflicts

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Conflict management as part of an integrated exception handling approach

Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing ◽

10.1017/s089006040000281x ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 259-267 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Mark Klein

Keyword(s):

Conflict Management ◽

Collaborative Design ◽

Real Life ◽

Exception Handling ◽

Collaborative Process ◽

Capture Process ◽

Future Evolution ◽

Process Enactment ◽

Design Conflicts ◽

Missed Opportunity

AbstractCollaborative design conflicts are an important type of process “exception,” that is, a real-life contingency such as a process change, execution error, or missed opportunity that leads to suboptimal performance of a collaborative process. This paper presents an integrated computational approach to collaborative process exception handling that avoids important weaknesses in current conflict management methods through the synergistic integration of conflict, workflow, and rationale technology. The approach is based upon an inclusive dependency language plus coordination services for dependency capture, process enactment, and exception handling. An initial implementation of this method called “iDCSS” is presented and challenges for future evolution of this technology are identified.

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A collaborative design process model in the sociotechnical engineering design framework

Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing ◽

10.1017/s089006040115105x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 3-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

STEPHEN C.-Y. LU ◽

JIAN CAI

Keyword(s):

Engineering Design ◽

Design Process ◽

Collaborative Design ◽

Process Model ◽

Process Analysis ◽

Design Framework ◽

Sociotechnical Design ◽

Design Activities ◽

Design Process Model ◽

Design Conflicts

Collaborative engineering design involves various stakeholders with different perspectives. The design process is relatively complex and difficult to handle. Various conflicts always happen among the design tasks and affect the design team performance. Therefore, to represent the collaborative design process and capture the evolution of design perspectives in a structured way, it is critical to manage the design conflicts and improve the collaborative design productivity. This article provides a generic collaborative design process model based on a sociotechnical design framework. This model has a topological format and adopts process analysis techniques from Petri Nets. By addressing both the technical and social aspects of collaborative design activities, it provides a mechanism to identify the interdependencies among design tasks and perspectives of different stakeholders. Based on this design process model, a methodology of detecting and handling the design conflicts is developed to support collaborative design coordination.

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Causing a Stir

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2019.c14.122 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Camilo POTOCNJAK-OXMAN

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Collaborative Design ◽

Entrepreneurial Activity ◽

Design Team ◽

Design Processes ◽

Early Stages

Stir was a crowd-voted grants platform aimed at supporting creative youth in the early stages of an entrepreneurial journey. Developed through an in-depth, collaborative design process, between 2015 and 2018 it received close to two hundred projects and distributed over fifty grants to emerging creatives and became one of the most impactful programs aimed at increasing entrepreneurial activity in Canberra, Australia. The following case study will provide an overview of the methodology and process used by the design team in conceiving and developing this platform, highlighting how the community’s interests and competencies were embedded in the project itself. The case provides insights for people leading collaborative design processes, with specific emphasis on some of the characteristics on programs targeting creative youth

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