Design Review 2005/2006—The ever increasing maturity of design research papers and case studies

Sheldon, D. F.

doi:10.1080/09544820601072387

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“…The authors undertook case study research as it is widely employed in engineering design research to investigate contemporary phenomena in uncontrolled environments to study complex topics and interactions between topics (Roth 1999;Flyvbjerg 2004;Sheldon 2006;Stowe 2008;Frost 1999;Teegavarapu et al 2008;George and Bennett ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Reasons for change propagation: a case study in an automotive OEM

2012

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This paper focuses on identifying the reasons for change propagation during the production phase of the product life cycle. Unlike the traditional change propagation study where the focus is within the product, this study is focused to understand the propagation effects of change on other functional silos in the manufacturing firm. First, the reasons for the changes are identified using archival analysis through which it is found that 77.0% of changes are due to internal reasons while 23.0% are external. Second, these changes are distinguished into genesis and propagated changes using a matrix based modeling approach from which the reasons for propagation are identified. It is inferred that 32.4% of the total changes are due to propagated changes such as inventory issues, manufacturing issues, and design error rectification. The majority of reasons for these propagated changes include document error rectification such as BOM error, drawing error, incorrect introduction date in engineering change note (ECN) and design error rectification such as design limitations. The findings indicate nearly one-third of time spent by the engineers can be reduced by developing appropriate controls during the change release process.

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Reasons for change propagation: a case study in an automotive OEM

2012

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“…No major design journal or conference includes tracks focused on analytical research methods. Further, although there are some more narrative reflective works, for example, Cross (1993Cross ( , 2007 and Sheldon (2004Sheldon ( , 2006, these are few in number and represent only a tiny fraction of the reviewed literature. It is interesting that the value of such formal reflective study is recognised with respect to design practice in Spitas's (2011) survey of design paradigms in industry, but not with respect to design research.…”

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Developing theory-driven design research

2018

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“…This mixed-method approach is illustrated in detail using a study in the further sections of the paper. Case studies are used widely in various fields, including design, as a research method (Sheldon, 2006; Teegavarapu & Summers, 2008). It is a very useful method for systematically illustrating the procedures to be followed in a new research method.…”

Section: Methods To Understand Design Thinking In Complex Engineering mentioning

confidence: 99%

Spanning the complexity chasm: A research approach to move from simple to complex engineering systems

Viswanathan

Linsey

2014

AIEDAM

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This paper presents a multi-study approach that allows design thinking of complex systems to be studied by triangulating causal controlled lab findings with coded data from more complex products. A case-study illustration of this approach is presented here. During the conceptual design of engineering systems, designers face many cognitive challenges including design fixation, errors in their mental models and the Sunk Cost Effect. These factors need to be mitigated for the generation of effective ideas.Understanding the effects of these challenges in a realistic and complex engineering system is especially difficult due to a variety of factors influencing the results. Studying the design of such systems in a controlled environment is extremely challenging due to the scale and complexity of such systems and the time needed to design the systems. Considering said challenges, this paper presents a mixed method approach for studying the design thinking of complex engineering systems. This approach includes a controlled experiment with a simple system and a qualitative cognitive-artifacts study on more complex engineering systems followed by the triangulation of results. The triangulated results provide more generalizable information for complex system design thinking. This method combines the advantages of quantitative and qualitative study methods, making them more powerful while studying complex engineering systems. This paper illustrates the proposed method further using an illustrative study on the cognitive effects of physical models during the design of engineering systems.

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Design Review 2005/2006—The ever increasing maturity of design research papers and case studies

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Reasons for change propagation: a case study in an automotive OEM

Reasons for change propagation: a case study in an automotive OEM

Developing theory-driven design research

Spanning the complexity chasm: A research approach to move from simple to complex engineering systems

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