Benchmarking of Risk Management Methods With Regard to Variations as a Source of Risk

Abstract

When developing new systems, there is always some kind of reference to existing systems. Various approaches aim at describing qualitatively different characteristics of such connections, often depicted as some form of variation. Among other things, this is done with regard to innovation potential and development risk. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which established methods of risk management refer to modelling approaches for variations by means as mentionend above. After a litertaure search 11 methods and method clusters are analyzed more in detail within a method benchmark.

Evaluation of Engineering Changes Based on Variations from the Model of PGE – Product Generation Engineering in an Automotive Wiring Harness

“…This research draws from the field of product development that can be used to improve engineering change management in order to influence the amount of effort and the evaluation positively (Gemmerich, 1995). The PGE-Product Generation Engineering, a method successfully used in product development provides a link between engineering changes and risks & costs (Albers et al, 2017) which creates the basis for an effective risk assessment method (Rapp et al, 2020). This research investigates to which extent this approach can be used in the field of engineering change for wiring harness development projects.…”

“…The PGE -Product Generation Engineering is particularly interesting. Classifying variations of technical systems is used to evaluate risk and effort (Rapp et al, 2020). This paper studies how well this works for the automotive wiring harness.…”