A methodology for tracking the impact of changes in (re)designing of the industrial complex product

Engineering design in today´s market faces a wonderful challenge. From the intense competitive business environment, the increasing demand of variety by customers and the exceptional boost of technology, new products have to be designed and manufactured with high performances in low-time, high-quality and high value output that can provide competitive advantage. Thus, modularity, commonality and variety are important and complementary concerns in differentiated product features to meet particular customer requirements. Moreover, the new design must re-configure, re-parameterize and re-align etc. the existing architecture with the component modules to be changed. Therefore, the impacts are on modification of components but also on the global behavior of the whole product; it can also bring constraints to another function. Hence, all the impacts of those elementary works have to be identified. This paper introduces method and tool to aid designers in understanding the potential effects of change based on studies of industrial complex product.