TY - GEN
T1 - An Approach to Assess Engineering Change Effort Retrospectively Utilizing Past Engineering Change Information
AU - Kattner, Niklas
AU - Shakirov, Eldar
AU - Lindemann, Udo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The competitiveness of companies is nowadays highly dependent on an efficient product development. Shorter time to market, increased competition as well as accelerated market dynamics can be handled well by a continuous improvement in development efficiency. Hence, improving the development performance can have a big impact on the time to market. However, an increasing number of resources must be assigned to the management of engineering changes. The management of changes strongly influences the resources available for the actual design process. Furthermore, the increasing complexity of technical systems as well as the organization affects the engineering change situation and further induces change complexity. This paper therefore introduces an approach to retrospectively assess engineering change information to identify areas for reducing the change workload. It therefore introduces a procedure to guide users through the process of the assessment. In addition, it suggests indicators to evaluate the change situation regarding the induced workload. Finally, the approach is applied in a use case to investigate an engineering change data set.
AB - The competitiveness of companies is nowadays highly dependent on an efficient product development. Shorter time to market, increased competition as well as accelerated market dynamics can be handled well by a continuous improvement in development efficiency. Hence, improving the development performance can have a big impact on the time to market. However, an increasing number of resources must be assigned to the management of engineering changes. The management of changes strongly influences the resources available for the actual design process. Furthermore, the increasing complexity of technical systems as well as the organization affects the engineering change situation and further induces change complexity. This paper therefore introduces an approach to retrospectively assess engineering change information to identify areas for reducing the change workload. It therefore introduces a procedure to guide users through the process of the assessment. In addition, it suggests indicators to evaluate the change situation regarding the induced workload. Finally, the approach is applied in a use case to investigate an engineering change data set.
KW - Engineering change assessment
KW - Engineering change management
KW - Structural complexity management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082107045&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-42250-9_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-42250-9_21
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85082107045
SN - 9783030422493
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 223
EP - 232
BT - Product Lifecycle Management in the Digital Twin Era - 16th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2019, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Fortin, Clement
A2 - Rivest, Louis
A2 - Bernard, Alain
A2 - Bouras, Abdelaziz
PB - Springer
T2 - 16th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2019
Y2 - 8 July 2019 through 12 July 2019
ER -