Determining component freeze order: A redesign cost perspective using simulated annealing

Rene Keller, Claudia M. Eckert, P. John Clarkson

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Abstract

Managing design freezes plays an important part in today's competitive markets and successful freeze management can make the difference between delivering a product in time and in budget or failed design projects. On the one hand, design managers want to limit change propagation by freezing components or component-interfaces in order to avoid unwanted change propagation and to meet design lead-times. On the other hand freezing the design of a component too early can constrain innovation and having to unfreeze a design that was frozen before can add further redesign costs. This paper introduces an algorithm for determining an optimal change freeze order (CFO) based on combined change risks and component redesign cost, which has been applied in an automotive company in the design of a diesel engine.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2008 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC 2008
Pages333-342
Number of pages10
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2008 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC 2008 - New York City, NY, United States
Duration: 3 Aug 20086 Aug 2008

Publication series

Name2008 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC 2008
Volume4

Conference

Conference2008 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York City, NY
Period3/08/086/08/08

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