Managing Dynamic Processes of Product Development
Arie Karniel, Yoram Reich
New
Product Development (NPD) processes are considered most challenging, involving
major risks due to unknown or unforeseen obstacles, in terms of technology and
business risks. The
actual process activities which depend on the evolving product knowledge could
be determined only during the process. Thus, process planning is inherently dynamic and requires adaptation to
product knowledge changes as well as other changes. Current Workflow tools can support ad-hoc
changes, but do not support the planning of process dynamics and the execution
of such dynamic process changes as they unfold.
This
research develops a system framework for managing dynamic process planning
changes resulting from changes in customer requirements, product structure,
product parametric dependencies and constraints, as well as ad-hoc
changes. The proposed framework comprises: process planning, incorporating the
Design Structure Matrix (DSM) method; business rules for interpreting the
DSM-based plan to process plan; dynamic process plan changes; and
implementation of changes into Run Time process simulation.
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It turns out that no existing modeling
tool supports NPD and a multi-level approach is necessary. The sequence of tools
application follows the sequence (Karniel &
Reich, 2013):
And the resulting multi-level process
modelling is (Karniel & Reich, 2013):
Such modelling supports the process
definition, execution, monitoring, and updating as it unfolds to address
dynamic conditions.
Content:
2. Workshops for Educational Institutions
3. Presentations (1-2 hours long)
4. Publications
5. Funding
Related Projects include:
- SMDP – standardization and modularization in product development
- RQFD – a design method used to place priorities over parts of the curriculum.
- SOS – a design method that will be taught in the future and that would be used to configure design courses for different educational settings.
- Knowledge-based reverse engineering – a complex process that initiated this research
- AMISA – developing adaptive production lines and products – an EU FP7 Project – coordinated by us (Tel Aviv University)
Workshops for Educational Institutions:
- email Yoram Reich (yoram @ eng.tau.ac.il )
Presentations (1-2 hours long):
- Managing dynamic product development processes.
Publications:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A. Karniel and Y. Reich, Managing dynamic new product development processes, CD proceedings of the INCOSE International Symposium (INCOSE 2007), San Diego, CA, 2007.
- 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.
- A. Karniel and Y. Reich, Statistical analysis of process simulations, International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED'09, Stanford, CA, 2009.
- S. Menachem, Y. Reich, Improving effectiveness of agile development, International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED'09, Stanford, CA, 2009.
- 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.
- 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.
- A. Karniel and Y. Reich, Managing
the Dynamics of New-Product Development Processes, A New
Product Development Paradigm, Springer, July, 2011.
- Karniel, A. Reich, Y., Rules for implementing dynamic changes in
DSM-based plans, International Conference on
Engineering Design, ICED'11, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011.
- A. Karniel, Y. Reich, Multi-level
modeling and simulation of new product development processes, Journal
of Engineering Design, 24(3):185-210, 2013.
Funding:
This
work was supported in part by the Israel Science Foundation under grant 765/08.
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