When to check for deviations in the design process - An approach to determine a systematic checkpoint schedule

Martina Carolina Wickel, Florian Behncke, Lindemann Udo

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Abstract

Changes in engineering design are a necessary and inevitable part of the design process, be it to improve products or to cope with occurring problems. Changes, however, are often connected with high effort which furthermore grows exponentially the later in the design process those changes ocurr. Therefore strategies for identifying the need for changes in the early phases of the product development have been established. These activities themselves imply high effort, though, and are many times not efficient due to unavailable or inaccurate data in the early stages. This leads to the conclusion that an optimal point of time can be determined within the design process in terms of the ratio of cost for changes vs. effort for change identification. In this paper an approach is presented, that supports the determination of optimal checkpoints to detect deviations from the planned development progress. Relevant aspects that have to be taken into account to determine the optimal time were deduced as a theoretical foundation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering Design
Subtitle of host publicationDesign for Harmonies, ICED 2013
Pages11-20
Number of pages10
Volume1 DS75-01
StatePublished - 2013
Event19th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2013 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 19 Aug 201322 Aug 2013

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2013
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period19/08/1322/08/13

Keywords

  • Change management
  • Engineering change
  • Engineering change management
  • Product development

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