Title :
Design process reengineering and planning based on modularization
Author :
Ma, Fei ; Tong, Shurong ; Wang, Keqin ; Xu, Xianlong
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xian
Abstract :
Process modularization is one of the approaches to reengineer design process in order to improve the efficiency of product design and shorten design cycle. This paper, firstly, proposes a model of design process unit (DPU), which is the minimum design activity unit with three attributes, namely state, resource and constraint. Then, a general description of DPU is illustrated and, according to their attributes, similarity degrees between these DPUs are calculated with cosine function method. By similarity matrix and modularization idea, those DPUs with the same or similar attributes can be reengineered into one module, hence they can be executed concurrently during design process. Finally, an example is presented to validate the feasibility of the method.
Keywords :
design engineering; matrix algebra; process design; process planning; product design; cosine function method; design process planning; design process reengineering; design process unit; process modularization; product design; product design cycle; similarity matrix; Commercialization; Design optimization; Humans; Matrix decomposition; Process design; Process planning; Product design; Product development; Product design; design process modularization; design process reengineering; similarity matrix;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Innovation and Technology, 2008. ICMIT 2008. 4th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2329-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2330-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654387