The Design Co-ordination Framework: key elements for effective product development

Andreasean, M.M.; Duffy, Alex H. B.; MacCallum, K. J.; Bowen, James

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-1538-0_8

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“…Design is a very complex and multi-disciplinary activity, and the information 4 involved is both dynamic and semantically rich (Boston et al 1998;Andreasen et al, 1998). This section presents a brief literature review on the nature of the design activity, pointing out some important features that must be considered in the development of process models.…”

Section: The Nature Of the Design Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, some authors have pointed out that the results of research on design modelling have had a limited impact in the industry because most studies regarded design as a relatively autonomous and bounded activity, and did not take into account business issues such as availability of resources, time constraints, and organisational structure, which are essential considerations for conducting effective design (Andreasen et al, 1998;Maffin, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A model for managing the product development process in house building

Formoso

Tzortzopoulos

Liedtke

2002

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

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The performance of the product development process has a critical influence in the efficiency and duration of building projects, as well as on the quality of the final product. Despite its importance, relatively little attention has been given to the management of this process, if compared to production.The main objective of this paper is to present some results of a research project which aimed to devise a general model for managing the product development process in small sized companies involved in the development and construction of residential and commercial buildings. This model consists of a template for the product development process, which can be used by different companies as a basis to devise their own models for managing individual projects.The development of the model was based on case studies carried out in two companies from the South of Brazil and also on a benchmarking study.

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Section: The Nature Of the Design Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A model for managing the product development process in house building

Formoso

Tzortzopoulos

Liedtke

2002

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

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“…Since it has been demonstrated that most of the product characteristics and costs depend on decisions taken at the early design stages (Andreasen et aL 1997), DFX-type knowledge should be available and used as from the conceptual design stage when the solution is still evolving. However, current manual and computer based design approaches, do not adequately support designers in handling the phenomena of propagation effects during synthesis, by foreseeing and exploring life-cycle consequences (LCCs) co-evolving with their synthesis decisions (Borg 1999).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploiting Integrated ‘Product’ & ‘Life-Phase’ Features

Borg

Giannini

2003

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract:Increasing competition requires more and more effort in delivering new products with better prices, good quality and environment savings. In this scenario, since most of the cost and product characteristics are dependent on commitments taken at the early design stages, designers require tools supporting them at considering the consequences of their decisions on the whole product life-cycle, starting from the conceptual design stage to the disposal phase. The adoption of such tools may enforce the exploration of different alternatives thus increasing the possibility of identifying the most convenient and innovative solution. Form features have been recognized as shape-oriented elements for associating geometry with engineering meaning, thus helping in reasoning on products in functional terms. However as argued in this paper, information on shape alone is insufficient for meaningful evaluation and forecast of life-cycle product consequences. The paper presents an approach for considering 'life-cycle consequences' during the design decision process, by taking into account both artefact features and the characteristics of the involved life-cycle systems.

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“…Those in favour of distributed control frameworks usually refer to bottlenecks and catastrophic failure as being shortcomings of centralised frameworks, whilst those in favour of centralised control frameworks refer to significant increases in network and processing requirements and overall complexity as being shortcomings of distributed frameworks. Rarely, however, has anyone considered the management of distributed coordination from an engineering design perspective (Andreasen et al 1996;Coates et al 1999Coates et al , 2000aWhitfield et al 2000), and more importantly, from the requirements of the engineering designer.…”

Section: Centralised and Distributed Coordination Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%