TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic design structure matrices
T2 - A comparison of two formula student projects
AU - Gopsill, James
AU - Snider, Chris
AU - Emanuel, Lia
AU - Joel-Edgar, Sian
AU - Hicks, Ben
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Design Structure Matrices have become a fundamental tool to support engineers in their handling and management of interactions across product & organisational architectures. Recent work in the field has exploited the opportunity afforded by Product Lifecycle Management systems, which capture the digital footprint of engineering projects to generate Design Structure Matrices in real-time through the cooccurrence of edits to product models. Given the systematic and more objective nature of the generation of these DSMs as well as being able to monitor their evolution throughout engineering projects, there now lies an opportunity in comparing projects/products using DSMs. To investigate this and the potential insights that could be generated, this paper presents the automatic generation of DSMs for two Formula Student projects. These have then been compared with respect to the end-of-project, change propagation characteristics and evolution of the DSMs. From this analysis, six insights have been generated that map the characteristics of the DSMs to the performance of the project/product and highlights the potential of automatic DSMs to further support engineering project management.
AB - Design Structure Matrices have become a fundamental tool to support engineers in their handling and management of interactions across product & organisational architectures. Recent work in the field has exploited the opportunity afforded by Product Lifecycle Management systems, which capture the digital footprint of engineering projects to generate Design Structure Matrices in real-time through the cooccurrence of edits to product models. Given the systematic and more objective nature of the generation of these DSMs as well as being able to monitor their evolution throughout engineering projects, there now lies an opportunity in comparing projects/products using DSMs. To investigate this and the potential insights that could be generated, this paper presents the automatic generation of DSMs for two Formula Student projects. These have then been compared with respect to the end-of-project, change propagation characteristics and evolution of the DSMs. From this analysis, six insights have been generated that map the characteristics of the DSMs to the performance of the project/product and highlights the potential of automatic DSMs to further support engineering project management.
KW - Computer Aided Design (CAD)
KW - Design management
KW - Design Structure Matrices
KW - Product architecture
KW - Project management
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M3 - Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
AN - SCOPUS:85029751281
VL - 6
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED
SP - 31
EP - 40
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED
ER -