1.4.4 Introducing Structured Information Handling in Automotive EE Development

Malvius, Diana; Redell, Ola; Ritzén, Sofia

doi:10.1002/j.2334-5837.2006.tb02736.x

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“…Within the context of IS several systems are currently used at the studied company; product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) systems are central for this study. The study is part of a larger research project, performed within the same company, regarding information management in complex product development [7,9]. Company initiatives to achieve integration of information started some years ago in the company by EE and software designers.…”

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Balancing Operational and Strategic Impacts on Information Management

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Bergsjö

Molneryd

2007

Volume 2: 27th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Parts a and B

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Strategies for successful information management that supports multidisciplinary systems engineering are reported on. Interdisciplinary and inter-lifecycle integration are considered as prerequisites to establish efficient information management. Top and middle management, and designer perspectives on integrated information management have been studied in an interview study within electrical and electronics, and software R&D departments in the automotive industry. Identified misalignments in needs, expected benefits and goals for information management between different perspectives are described. Ways to achieve synergies and conflicts with operational and strategic impacts on information management are discussed in the paper. 1INTRODUCTION One critical area in order to improve efficiency in complex product development is information management. In the automotive industry, the need to share information throughout the entire systems engineering (SE) process is extensive. Due to differently structured and visualized information, designers have a recurring task to gather and sort information in their everyday work. Increased product complexity and shortened time-to-market stress the need for information to be transparent, accessible and managed by management and designers from different engineering disciplines. It is suggested that information flow is necessary for collaboration between engineering disciplines as well as through the product lifecycle, feeding downstream processes (Figure 1). Collaboration i.e. mutual understanding, collective goals and shared resources, is necessary for interdepartmental integration [1], and the same approach is taken in this paper for interdisciplinary (within R&D) integration. Inter-lifecycle integration, i.e. handover in the product development process, is made complicated by for example heterogeneous requirement specifications and information refinement where handovers often are done with little understanding and no feedback of the subsequent stages (e.g. when a CAD drawing is changed by a manufacturing engineer to be easier to produce, a particular function important to the original designer is lost). Integration depends on both organizational and technical enablers. Barriers to information management can be behavioral, process-related or organizational [2].

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