Including product features in the development of engineering design processes
Year: 2013
Editor: Udo Lindemann, Srinivasan V, Yong Se Kim, Sang Won Lee, John Clarkson, Gaetano Cascini
Author: Ulrikkeholm, Jeppe Bjerrum; Hvam, Lars
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: The Technical University of Denmark, MAN Diesel & Turbo; 2: The Technical University of Denmark
Page(s): 001-010
ISBN: 978-1-904670-44-5
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
Engineering companies offering customised products face growing demands to design products faster and more efficiently. To meet these demands, efficient engineering design processes for specifying customised products need to be in place. A new engineering design methodology currently under development, called Integrated Product and Process Modelling (IPPM), analyses process and product models simultaneously in order to improve engineering design processes. The method provides detailed insight into the activities within an engineering design process by modelling the product features used in the engineering design process and by clarifying in which process step the specific product features are used. The insight gained by the IPPM-method can then be utilized to improve the engineering design process and identify inefficient elements that can be improved within the process flow. The methodology have been tested and further developed in an action research study carried out in collaboration with a major international engineering company.
Keywords: Engineering design processes, Engineering change processes, Product modelling, Integrated modelling of product and process.