TY - GEN
T1 - A simulation study of mutual influences of engineering change management process and new product development process
AU - Li, Weilin
AU - Moon, Young B.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper presents a simulation model for assessing the mutual impacts of Engineering Change Management (ECM) process and New Product Development (NPD) process on each other. The discrete-event simulation model incorporates ECM into an NPD environment by allowing Engineering Changes (EC) to compete for limited resources with regular NPD activities. The goal is to examine how the relative size and frequency of NPD as well as ECM, NPD process structure (in terms of overlapping and departmental interaction), and the operational policy of resource using priority that one organization employs affect lead time and productivity of both NPD and ECM. Decision-making suggestions considering EC impacts are drawn from an overall enterprise system-level perspective based on the simulation results.
AB - This paper presents a simulation model for assessing the mutual impacts of Engineering Change Management (ECM) process and New Product Development (NPD) process on each other. The discrete-event simulation model incorporates ECM into an NPD environment by allowing Engineering Changes (EC) to compete for limited resources with regular NPD activities. The goal is to examine how the relative size and frequency of NPD as well as ECM, NPD process structure (in terms of overlapping and departmental interaction), and the operational policy of resource using priority that one organization employs affect lead time and productivity of both NPD and ECM. Decision-making suggestions considering EC impacts are drawn from an overall enterprise system-level perspective based on the simulation results.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSC.2009.5429230
DO - 10.1109/WSC.2009.5429230
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951605001
SN - 9781424457700
T3 - Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
SP - 2940
EP - 2950
BT - Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2009
T2 - 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2009
Y2 - 13 December 2009 through 16 December 2009
ER -