TY - GEN
T1 - An approach for testing the feasibility of decomposing interdependent design tasks for concurrent engineering
AU - Bashir, Hamdi
AU - AlZebdeh, Khalid
AU - Abdo, Jamil
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Concurrent engineering process is characterized by executing a large number of interdependent project tasks. One effective way of managing such tasks is to decompose them into groups. However, not all tasks are decomposable. Without the need to apply a decomposition method, this paper describes a simple quantitative approach to test whether an underlying pattern of relationships exists between interdependent design tasks, such that they may be rearranged into groups. In addition, a grouping efficiency index for predicting the goodness of the best possible obtainable decomposition is introduced. The proposed approach and the grouping index were applied to simple hypothetical projects and a sample project adapted from the literature. Both the approach and the grouping index are proved to be powerful yet very easy to use.
AB - Concurrent engineering process is characterized by executing a large number of interdependent project tasks. One effective way of managing such tasks is to decompose them into groups. However, not all tasks are decomposable. Without the need to apply a decomposition method, this paper describes a simple quantitative approach to test whether an underlying pattern of relationships exists between interdependent design tasks, such that they may be rearranged into groups. In addition, a grouping efficiency index for predicting the goodness of the best possible obtainable decomposition is introduced. The proposed approach and the grouping index were applied to simple hypothetical projects and a sample project adapted from the literature. Both the approach and the grouping index are proved to be powerful yet very easy to use.
KW - Concurrent engineering
KW - Decomposition
KW - Design structure matrix
KW - Design tasks
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U2 - 10.1109/IEEM.2007.4419337
DO - 10.1109/IEEM.2007.4419337
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:40649114007
SN - 1424415292
SN - 9781424415298
T3 - IEEM 2007: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
SP - 973
EP - 978
BT - IEEM 2007
T2 - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2007
Y2 - 2 December 2007 through 4 December 2007
ER -