Design Navigator System: A Case Study in Improving Product Development Through Improved Information Management

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. V. Karnik ◽  
S. K. Gupta ◽  
D. K. Anand ◽  
F. J. Valenta ◽  
I. A. Wexler
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Visual Navigation ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
System A ◽  
Information Models ◽  
Naval Surface Warfare

This paper provides an overview of the Design Navigator system being developed for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head. This system addresses the following three information management needs. First, it captures all the relevant information being generated during the product development process in a computer-interpretable form. This eliminates information loss from the design process. Second, it builds fully interconnected information models. Thus ensuring full connectivity between requirements and specifications to various parts and assemblies in the design. Third, it offers multiple modes of searching and retrieving design information in an intuitive and convenient manner. By supporting functionality-based queries, change-based queries, geometry-based queries, and visual navigation of the entire product database, the Design Navigator system is expected to offer maximum flexibility and power to the designers to meet their diverse information retrieval needs.

scholarly journals APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF TARGET PROCESS MODULE SETS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
Albert Albers ◽  
Miriam Wilmsen ◽  
Kilian Gericke
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Quality ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Adaptive Processes

AbstractThe implementation of agile frameworks, such as SAFe, in large companies causes conflicts between the overall product development process with a rigid linkage to the calendar cycles and the continuous agile project planning. To resolve these conflicts, adaptive processes can be used to support the creation of realistic target-processes, i.e. project plans, while stabilizing process quality and simplifying process management. This enables the usage of standardisation methods and module sets for design processes.The objective of this contribution is to support project managers to create realistic target-processes through the usage of target-process module sets. These target-process module sets also aim to stabilize process quality and to simplify process management. This contribution provides an approach for the development and application of target-process module sets, in accordance to previously gathered requirements and evaluates the approach within a case study with project managers at AUDI AG (N=21) and an interview study with process authors (N=4) from three different companies.

scholarly journals The use of information management tools as support to the product development process in a metal mechanical company

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Albuquerque Cunha ◽  
Jarina dos Passos Silva ◽  
Aline Capanema de Barros ◽  
Eduardo Romeiro
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Management Tools

scholarly journals TOWARDS BEST PRACTICES IN THE ENGINEER-TO-ORDER BUSINESS: A FRAMEWORK FOR THE STRUCTURED ANALYSIS OF COMMISSIONING PROCESSES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1017-1026
Author(s):  
G. O. Mueller ◽  
C. A. Bertram ◽  
N. H. Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Structured Analysis ◽  
Engineer To Order ◽  
Customer Demands

AbstractEngineer-To-Order (ETO) companies develop complex one-of-a-kind products based on specific customer demands. Given the product uniqueness, the commissioning plays an important role in the product development process. However, the project variety and low data availability hinder the analysis of the commissioning processes. This paper proposes a framework for the structured analysis of commissioning processes in ETO companies by analysing the impacts from product requirements and design on the commissioning performance. A case study presents the practical application of the developed framework.

Improving the Quality of Information Flows in the Backend of a Product Development Process: a Case Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaring Boersma ◽  
Gabriel Loke ◽  
Valia T. Petkova ◽  
Peter C. Sander ◽  
Aarnout C. Brombacher
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Quality Of Information

Evaluation and Prioritization of Cross-Linked Requirements in the Automotive Development Process

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delia Ilie ◽  
Udo Lindemann ◽  
Andreas Kain
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Computational Procedure ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Information Criteria ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Cross Linking ◽  
Phase Complex ◽  
The Right

During the initial stages of a project, a crucial course is set that can determine the success or failure of the project. During this phase requirements are determined, analyzed and allocated to the corresponding product development phase. Complex products with a high degree of customization require the management of a large amount of information. The prioritization of this information in regard to their time sequence in the product development process has to be analyzed. Interviews conducted in the automotive industry show that the requirement management processes in the early design phases are insufficient and lack solid categorization and prioritization methodologies. This study presents a methodical procedure to improve the allocation of the right information to the right time in the development process. In this methodology, the prioritization of requirements as a function of the degree of cross-linking was achieved through three steps: 1. the evaluation criteria definition, 2. the establishment of a computational procedure, 3. the evaluation of requirements and the calculation of their priority. In the first step, an information prioritization signature was created consisting of a set of relevant information criteria and class structures to allow for the evaluation of the varied spectrum of requirements. In the second step, not only the degree of cross-linking is considered but additionally the types of links between requirements are worked out to allow for prioritization. Finally in the third step, a case study is presented to validate the methodology and provide the reader with an example of how requirements are evaluated and prioritized.

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