Design Coordination for Concurrent Engineering

Duffy, Alex H. B.; Andreasen, Mogens Myrup; MacCallum, K. J.; Reijers, L. N.

doi:10.1080/09544829308914785

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“…It is vital that the best concept is selected, as it determines the direction of the design embodiment stage. It is often said in the literature that nearly 60-80% of the cost is committed at this stage (Duffy, Andreasen, Maccallum, & Reijers, 1993). After this stage has been passed, the design process will diverge towards a detailed solution.…”

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A hybrid approach to concept selection through fuzzy analytic network process

Ayağ

Özdemir

2009

Computers & Industrial Engineering

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A hybrid approach to concept selection through fuzzy analytic network process

Ayağ

Özdemir

2009

Computers & Industrial Engineering

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“…The approach did, however, restrict the computational resources available to undertake the agents' activities, being outperformed by a centralised system 57% of the time whilst producing 85% of the quality. Duffy et al (1993) discussed design coordination within the context of concurrent engineering and identified a number of inherently complicated issues that need to be addressed in order to improve product development performance. The difficulties in addressing these issues 'highlight both the limitations of humans to cope with complexity, and the considerable strengths of humans to reason, judge, learn and interact'.…”

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Distributed design coordination

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“…Co-ordination can be viewed as the decision making, controlling, modelling and planning/scheduling activities with respect to the design factors time, tasks, resources and aspects [7], [13]. The agent based co-ordination approach described here embraces this high level concept in that it involves the co-ordination of tasks which aims to optimise the scheduling and planning of the design process with respect to the allocation and utilisation of available resources.…”

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“…This definition is representative of many of those encountered in that the main emphasis is placed on its systematic approach to the design process as it reduces the design time and hence total design cost, which is one of the main considerations in the entire design process. Duffy et al [7] state that design co-ordination is a vehicle for the realisation of CE. In addition, it is mentioned that while the main objective of CE is directed at considering aspects of design simultaneously, design co-ordination provides the means of integrating and controlling disparate activities.…”

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Integrated Engineering Environments for Large Complex Products

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Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications

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An introduction is given to the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, along with a brief explanation of the main focus towards large made-to-order products. Three key areas of research at the Centre, which have evolved as a result of collaboration with industrial partners from various sectors of industry, are identified as (1) decision support and optimisation, (2) design for lifecycle, and (3) design integration and co-ordination. A summary of the unique features of large made-to-order products is then presented, which includes the need for integration and co-ordination technologies. Thus, an overview of the existing integration and co-ordination technologies is presented followed by a brief explanation of research in these areas at the Engineering Design Centre. A more detailed description is then presented regarding the co-ordination aspect of research being conducted at the Engineering Design Centre, in collaboration with the CAD Centre at the University of Strathclyde. Concurrent Engineering is acknowledged as a strategy for improving the design process, however design coordination is viewed as a principal requirement for its successful implementation. That is, design co-ordination is proposed as being the key to a mechanism that is able to maximise and realise any potential opportunity of concurrency. Thus, an agentoriented approach to co-ordination is presented, which incorporates various types of agents responsible for managing their respective activities. The co-ordinated approach, which is implemented within the Design Co-ordination System, includes features such as resource management and monitoring, dynamic scheduling, activity direction, task enactment, and information management. An application of the Design Co-ordination System, in conjunction with a robust concept exploration tool, shows that the computational design analysis involved in evaluating many design concepts can be performed more efficiently through a co-ordinated approach.

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Design Coordination for Concurrent Engineering

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A hybrid approach to concept selection through fuzzy analytic network process

A hybrid approach to concept selection through fuzzy analytic network process

Distributed design coordination

Integrated Engineering Environments for Large Complex Products

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