Industrial evaluation of FBS Linkage – a method to support engineering change management

Hamraz, Bahram; Clarkson, P. John

doi:10.1080/09544828.2015.1015783

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“…In reactive decisionmaking, the change impact is assessed to compare different change options (Koh et al, 2012;Ullah et al, 2017) and to implement changes more effectively and efficiently (Pasqual and De Weck, 2012;Kocar and Akgunduz, 2010;Ou-Yang and Cheng, 2003). Some assessment methods address both proactive and reactive decisionmaking (Clarkson et al, 2004;Hamraz and Clarkson, 2015;Brooks and Mocko, 2011;Morkos and Summers, 2010).…”

Section: Why Is It Important To Assess the Change Propagation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Characteristics of changeable systems across value chains

Masood

Kern

Clarkson

2020

International Journal of Production Research

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Engineering changes (ECs) are inevitable for businesses due to increasing innovation, shorter lifecycles, technology and process improvements and cost reduction initiatives. The ECs could propagate and cause further changes due to existing system dependencies, which can be challenging. Hence, change management (CM) is a relevant discipline, which aims to reduce the impact of changes. EC assessment methods form the basis of CM that support in assessing system dependencies and the impact of changes. However, understanding of which factors influence the changeability across value chains (VCs) is limited. This research adopted a VC approach to EC assessment. Dependencies in products and processes were captured, followed by risk (i.e. likelihood x impact) assessment of ECs using change prediction method (CPM). Four industrial case studies were conducted (3x automotive, 1x furniture manufacturing) to identify design (product) and manufacturing (process) elements with high risk to be affected by ECs. Based on the case results, characteristics were identified that influence changeability across VC. This contributed to the CM domain while businesses could also use the results to assess ECs across VC, and improve the design of products and processes by increasing their changeability across VC e.g. by proactive decoupling or reactive handling of system dependencies.

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Section: Why Is It Important To Assess the Change Propagation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Characteristics of changeable systems across value chains

Masood

Kern

Clarkson

2020

International Journal of Production Research

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“…One noteworthy approach is presented in Hamraz and Clarkson (2015), where it was preferred to conduct structured interviews for the qualitative assessment of their solution and to underline potential benefits as perceived by the end-users.…”

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Potential identification and industrial evaluation of an integrated design automation workflow

Entner¹,

Prante²,

Vosgien³

et al. 2019

JEDT

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Purpose The paper aims to raise awareness in the industry of design automation tools, especially in early design phases, by demonstrating along a case study the seamless integration of a prototypically implemented optimization, supporting design space exploration in the early design phase and an in operational use product configurator, supporting the drafting and detailing of the solution predominantly in the later design phase. Design/methodology/approach Based on the comparison of modeled as-is and to-be processes of ascent assembly designs with and without design automation tools, an automation roadmap is developed. Using qualitative and quantitative assessments, the potentials and benefits, as well as acceptance and usage aspects, are evaluated. Findings Engineers tend to consider design automation for routine tasks. Yet, prototypical implementations support the communication and identification of the potential for the early stages of the design process to explore solution spaces. In this context, choosing from and interactively working with automatically generated alternative solutions emerged as a particular focus. Translators, enabling automatic downstream propagation of changes and thus ensuring consistency as to change management were also evaluated to be of major value. Research limitations/implications A systematic validation of design automation in design practice is presented. For generalization, more case studies are needed. Further, the derivation of appropriate metrics needs to be investigated to normalize validation of design automation in future research. Practical implications Integration of design automation in early design phases has great potential for reducing costs in the market launch. Prototypical implementations are an important ingredient for potential evaluation of actual usage and acceptance before implementing a live system. Originality/value There is a lack of systematic validation of design automation tools supporting early design phases. In this context, this work contributes a systematically validated industrial case study. Early design-phases-support technology transfer is important because of high leverage potential.

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“…Several developments have been presented to the basic CPM (Hamraz et al, 2012;Hamraz et al, 2013b;Ahmad et al, 2013) to enrich the method with a better prediction and change propagation measurements. The most recent extension links the CPM with a function-behavior-structure (FBS) linkage method (Hamraz and Clarkson, 2015). The method provides details in modeling and analysis of engineering changes.…”

Section: Change Propagation Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design Optimization for Sustainable Products Under Users' Preference Changes

Afshari

Peng

2016

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

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Decisions made in the early design phase enormously contribute to the performance of a product during its life cycle. Since users' preferences may change over time, a product design should be revised under the preference change. Providing accurate data for designers ensures an optimal decision for product design; this research presents a new method to assess effects of the quantified changes on product cost and development time. In addition, two models to optimize design under unexpected disturbances are proposed. Normally, optimal parameters require several search iterations in design process before finalizing a product. The design time in terms of number of iterations can be reduced by adding resources in each iteration using modern control engineering methods. However, adding resources will increase the design cost. The proposed method in this research minimizes the total product design cost and environmental impacts under changes of users' preferences. The method is validated using an example of the smartphone design. The research novelty is a method of applying quantified changes of external disturbances (such as changes in users' preferences) in the design process, addressing a real problem in industry, and proposing optimal models of products for reduced cost and environmental impacts.

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Industrial evaluation of FBS Linkage – a method to support engineering change management

Cited by 36 publications

References 42 publications

Characteristics of changeable systems across value chains

Characteristics of changeable systems across value chains

Potential identification and industrial evaluation of an integrated design automation workflow

Design Optimization for Sustainable Products Under Users' Preference Changes

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