Lessons learnt in the development of a Concurrent Engineering Infrastructure

Golkar, Alessandro

doi:10.1002/j.2334-5837.2016.00259.x

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“…To limit the difficulty of the concept study, we chose a textbook‐like satellite mission. The design studies were conducted in our laboratory, the Skoltech Concurrent Engineering Design Laboratory (CEDL) 36 . The teams were provided a collaboration tool, called Concurrent Engineering Data Exchange Skoltech (CEDESK) 37 .…”

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A process model for concurrent conceptual design of space systems

Knoll

Fortin

Golkar

2021

Systems Engineering

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This work presents a model of the process of conceptual design studies which use the concurrent engineering approach. Concurrent conceptual design is an integrated system development approach, to rapidly explore feasible design solutions by parallelizing the work of experts. This approach is characterized by a multidisciplinary team of experts collaborating in a co‐located manner. Albeit the conceptual design phase requires creative problem solving, teamwork requires coordination, and would profit from a shared understanding of the design process. Based on a survey among experts from 15 different organizations, and practice documented in literature, we propose a model of the underlying design process. This work extends our previous work on a coordination method for concurrent design and provides validation of the process model via case studies and expert interviews. The proposed process model is formalized in SysML diagrams. It can be used to help program coordinators and train engineers of different disciplines on the methodology of concurrent conceptual design, as well to serve as a baseline for implementing the methodology in new organizations.

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A process model for concurrent conceptual design of space systems

Knoll

Fortin

Golkar

2021

Systems Engineering

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“…It is equipped with hardware for visualization and communication of intermediate engineering results and face-to-face discussion. The concurrent design facilities in ESA/ESTEC are described in more detail in Bandecchi et al (2000), and the facility in our institute is described in Golkar (2014Golkar ( , 2016.…”

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A coordination method for concurrent design and a collaboration tool for parametric system models

Knoll

Golkar

2017

Concurrent Engineering

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This work presents a method and a tool for conducting conceptual design studies for projects such as a space exploration mission and a satellite constellation in a concurrent manner in both time and space, while taking into account the structure of the system to design and the dependencies between the system's constituting elements. Design work is parallelized to reduce the time required to converge to a solution for a preliminary design, which includes the system architecture, its detailed requirements, and its costs. The multidisciplinary team of designers works in colocation to leverage effective direct human interaction for discussing design trade-offs quickly. While this is practice in space agencies for mission feasibility studies, a common methodology was not described so far. Our work proposes a method for the coordination of discipline experts and the sequence of activities performed during conceptual design studies, which use integrated parametric system models. Our method reduces the number of design iterations by applying a design structure matrix clustering algorithm to the system model and deriving a schedule for the design session. We also describe the tool Concurrent Engineering Data Exchange Skoltech we developed for collaborative work on the parametric system models and serve as an instrument for research on complex system design methodologies. The tool features a fast synchronization mechanism for the concurrent work of multiple design experts, and it supports our coordination method for concurrent design studies. The tool was published as open-source software, so other researchers can use it and build upon it. We used our tool and applied the method to two case studies of preliminary satellite designs and tested them with groups of students of a satellite engineering class and researchers from our institute. Throughout the experiments, we recorded information about user interactions and collected user feedback for the evaluation of the coordination method and the collaboration tool. Both method and tool demonstrated their validity in our experimental setting.

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