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Eckert, Claudia; Isaksson, Ola and Earl, Christopher
(2012).
Abstract
Engineering change occurs throughout the entire product life cycle. Change propagation can lead to unexpected effort and the objective of this paper is to help manage these changes. Propagation depends on the margins for change allowed in individual parameters. The paper examines these parameter margins for components in complex aerospace products. The main objective is to understand how margins are managed in a design process both within a single product development but across product generations within and outside platforms. The results indicate that parameter margins appear in different forms and are only understood by practitioners to a limited extent. This paper shows the critical importance of parameter margins in understanding, managing and predicting changes, both for engineering and for long term product planning, where sequences of changes are considered over generations of the product and associated product platforms. A main conclusion is to propose that design methods use a 'classification' of margin/change types when defining design concepts. Interfaces and associated dependencies are then classified with respect to change sensitivity in order to enable better predictability of effects when changes are made. This offers one route to embodying the 'good judgment' of experienced designers into design methods. This approach represents a design technique tailored to synthesis rather than analysis.
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- Item ORO ID
- 40099
- Item Type
- Conference or Workshop Item
- ISBN
- 90-5155-081-2, 978-90-5155-081-8
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set Not Set The Open University (OU) - Keywords
- engineering change; change prediction; product planning; parameter margins; tolerances
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Engineering and Innovation
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
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Design and Innovation
Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD) - Copyright Holders
- © 2012 Organizing Committee of TMCE 2012
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- Claudia Eckert