Analysis of Engineering Change Impacts Based on Design Structure Matrix

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (01) ◽  
pp. 154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunbing TANG
2011 ◽  
Vol 314-316 ◽  
pp. 1607-1611
Author(s):  
Zhong Wei Gong ◽  
Hai Cheng Yang ◽  
Rong Mo ◽  
Tao Chen

Engineering change is an important and complex activity for manufacturing enterprises. In order to improve the efficiency of engineering change, designers should pay different attentions to different nodes of product development network. In that case, a method of classifying the nodes was proposed. First, we proposed a method to cluster the nodes based on design structure matrix; then, we analyzed the indexes for evaluating the importance of nodes and studied the method of classifying the nodes of product development network; finally, the experiment of managing a type of motorcycle engine was employed to validate our method and it showed the correctness of the proposed method.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ívar Örn Arnarsson ◽  
Emil Gustavsson ◽  
Mats Jirstrand ◽  
Johan Malmqvist

The problem at hand is that vast amount of data on industrial changes is captured and stored; yet the present challenge is to systematically retrieve and use them in a purposeful way. This paper presents an industrial case study where complex product development processes are modeled using the design structure matrix (DSM) to analyze engineering change requests sequences. Engineering change requests are documents used to initiate a change process to enhance a product. Due to the amount of changes made in different projects, engineers want to be able to analyze these change processes to identify patterns and propose the best practices. The previous work has not specifically explored modeling engineering change requests in a DSM to holistically analyze sequences. This case study analyzes engineering change request sequences from four recent industrial product development projects and compares patterns among them. In the end, this research can help to identify and guide process improvement work within projects.


2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Eduardo da Cunha Barbosa ◽  
Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza

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