TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling and managing engineering changes in a complex product development process
AU - Li, Weilin
AU - Moon, Young B.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Due to ever increasing competitive market place, demanding customers, and rapidly advancing technologies, corporations developing new products are forced to look into all the possible areas of improvement throughout the entire product lifecycle management process. One of the research areas that have been overlooked in the past is Engineering Change Management (ECM). This paper presents a simulation model for investigating the mutual impacts of 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 Change (EC) activities to compete for limited resources against regular NPD activities. The goal of the research is to determine the key characteristics of ECM and NPD that affect lead time and productivity of both processes. Decisions to be made by considering EC impacts are drawn from an enterprise level systems perspective.
AB - Due to ever increasing competitive market place, demanding customers, and rapidly advancing technologies, corporations developing new products are forced to look into all the possible areas of improvement throughout the entire product lifecycle management process. One of the research areas that have been overlooked in the past is Engineering Change Management (ECM). This paper presents a simulation model for investigating the mutual impacts of 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 Change (EC) activities to compete for limited resources against regular NPD activities. The goal of the research is to determine the key characteristics of ECM and NPD that affect lead time and productivity of both processes. Decisions to be made by considering EC impacts are drawn from an enterprise level systems perspective.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSC.2011.6147806
DO - 10.1109/WSC.2011.6147806
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863292857
SN - 9781457721083
T3 - Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
SP - 792
EP - 804
BT - Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2011
T2 - 2011 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2011
Y2 - 11 December 2011 through 14 December 2011
ER -