Design Structure Matrix @ Tel Aviv University [ DSM @ TAU ]

Contribution to the theory and utilization of DSM

Yoram Reich

 

Design structure matrix is an approach for representing data about system's components and their interactions.

A "system" could be

1.      an organization and the components would be employees, teams, or departments

2.      a process and the components would be activities

3.      a product and the components would be modules or basic building blocks of the product

4.      network of interacting parameters

This list is not exhaustive unless we interpret the above very broadly.

DSM is used by many researchers and by some industries to model, analyze, and improve their systems. In the early days (starting in the 60's of previous century), DSM was used to represent information and algorithms were developed to analyze this information. More recently, DSM is becoming more and more a visualization mechanism and the algorithms employed to analyze the information are based on graph or network theory.

Over the past years, we at TAU, have used DSM for representing systems and processes in several projects. We have made algorithmic contributions related to clustering, sequencing of DSM information and theoretical contribution in understanding DSM better as models of processes. We further intend to develop the theoretical basis of DSM decomposition in the future based on results from the Interdisciplinary Engineering Knowledge Genome (IEKG) project.

 

Next we describe briefly these projects. More information is available in the specific project pages and in the publications. For each project, several figures are provided just as a previous of the detailed information available in the different publications.

 

  

  

 

 

Further Content:

1.         Related Projects include

2.         Workshops for Educational Institutions

3.         Presentations (1-2 hours long)

4.         Publication

5.         Funding

 

 


 

Related Projects include:

Workshops for Educational Institutions:

Presentations (1-2 hours long):

Publications:

  1. Y. Sered and Y. Reich, “Standardization and modularization driven by minimizing overall process effort,” in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM), (New York, NY), ASME, 2003.
  2.  Y. Sered and Y. Reich, “Process driven standardization and modularization,” in Proceedings of the 29th Israel Conference on Mechanical Engineering, (Haifa, Israel), 2003.
  3. Belsky, Y., A. Karniel, and Y. Reich, “Large scale reverse engineering with constraints,” in Proceedings of the 29th Israel Conference on Mechanical Engineering, (Haifa, Israel), 2003.
  4. Karniel and Y. Reich, “Dynamic evolution of product design process,” The 30th Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 2005.
  5. A. Karniel, Y. Belsky, and Y. Reich, Decomposing the problem of constrained surface fitting in reverse engineering, Computer-Aided Design, 37(4):399-417, 2005.
  6. A. Karniel and Y. Reich, Simulating Design Processes with self-iteration activities based on DSM planning, Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Engineering and Modeling - ICSEM'07, Haifa, 2007.
  7. A. Karniel and Y. Reich, From planning to executing NPD processes, CD proceedings of the 4th National Conference on Systems Engineering (INCOSE IL), Herzlia, 2007.
  8. A. Karniel and Y. Reich, Managing dynamic new product development processes, CD proceedings of the INCOSE International Symposium (INCOSE 2007), San Diego, CA, 2007.
  9. A. Karniel and Y. Reich, Coherent interpretation of DSM plan to PDP simulation, in CDROM Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), The Design Society, 2007.
  10. A. Karniel and Y. Reich, Statistical analysis of process simulations, International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED'09, Stanford, CA, 2009.
  11. A. Karniel and Y. Reich, From DSM-based planning to Design Process Simulation: A review of process-scheme logic verification issues, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 56(4):636-649, 2009.
  12. A. Karniel and Y. Reich, Formalizing a Workflow-Net Implementation of Design-Structure-Matrix-Based Process Planning for New Product Development, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, 41(3):476–491, 2011.
  13. A. Karniel and Y. Reich, Managing the Dynamics of New Product Development Processes: The new Product Lifecycle Management Paradigm, Springer, 2011. (Read Online)
  14. Karniel, A. Reich, Y., Rules for implementing dynamic changes in DSM-based plans, International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED'11, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011.
  15. Engel, A. and Reich, Y., Project AMISA: Architecting Manufacturing Industries and Systems for Adaptability, The 32nd Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2012.
  16. Engel A., Reich Y., Browning T.R., Schmidt D.M., Optimizing system architecture for Adaptability, International Design Conference - DESIGN 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2012.
  17. A. Karniel, Y. Reich, Multi-level modeling and simulation of new product development processes, Journal of Engineering Design, 24(3):185-210, 2013.
  18. Engel, A., Reich, Y., The AMISA research project, In ePcoceedings Israeli Conference on Systems Engineering, INCOSE-IL, 2013.

19.  Engel A., Reich Y., Architecting Systems for Optimal Lifetime Adaptability, In eProceedings International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED'13, Seoul, South Korea, 2013.

 

 

Funding:

This work was supported in part by the Israel Science Foundation under grant 765/08 and by the European Commission Grant under FP7.

 


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