Automatic design structure matrices: A comparison of two formula student projects

Abstract

Design Structure Matrices have become a fundamental tool to support engineers in their handling and management of interactions across product & organisational architectures. Recent work in the field has exploited the opportunity afforded by Product Lifecycle Management systems, which capture the digital footprint of engineering projects to generate Design Structure Matrices in real-time through the co-occurrence of edits to product models. Given the systematic and more objective nature of the generation of these DSMs as well as being able to monitor their evolution throughout engineering projects, there now lies an opportunity in comparing projects/products using DSMs. To investigate this and the potential insights that could be generated, this paper presents the automatic generation of DSMs for two Formula Student projects. These have then been compared with respect to the end-of-project, change propagation characteristics and evolution of the DSMs. From this analysis, six insights have been generated that map the characteristics of the DSMs to the performance of the project/product and highlights the potential of automatic DSMs to further support engineering project management.

Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
Additional Information: © 2017 The Authors
Event Title: 21st International Conference on Engineering Design
Event Type: Other
Event Dates: 2017-08-21 - 2017-08-25
ISBN: 978-1-904670-94-0
Last Modified: 01 Oct 2024 07:14
Date Deposited: 02 Jul 2019 08:41
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Related URLs: https://www.des ... C+21-25.08.2017 (Publisher URL)
PURE Output Type: Conference contribution
Published Date: 2017-08-25
Accepted Date: 2017-08-01
Authors: Gopsill, James
Snider, Chris
Lia, Emmanual
Joel Edgar, Sian (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-6812-8348)
Hicks, Ben

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