McKay, A orcid.org/0000-0002-8187-4759, Rice, HP orcid.org/0000-0002-6895-8325, Chau, HH et al. (1 more author) (2021) Maintaining consistency across design descriptions in engineering product development. In: Proceedings of the Design Society. 23rd International Conference on Engineering Design, 24-28 Jul 2023, Bordeaux, France. Cambridge University Press , pp. 1987-1996.
Abstract
The success of engineering product development depends on the effective communication of design descriptions in formats that suit the needs and capabilities of all stakeholders involved in the delivery to market and through-life support of products. Configuration management is a core design process to ensure the consistency of the technical data package, i.e., the collection of design descriptions needed to support the development, manufacture and operation of a given product. Bills of Materials (BoMs) are critical parts of the technical data package because they act as integrators: adapting detailed design descriptions to suit the needs of particular downstream processes. The ability to reconfigure BoMs while maintaining internal consistency of the technical data package (where all BoM configurations are complete and compatible with each other) is a major challenge. In this paper, we introduce research exploring computational tools that could support engineers in manipulating BoMs while also maintaining the internal consistency of the technical data package.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
Keywords: | Product architecture; Design informatics; Information management; Product structuring |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mechanical Engineering (Leeds) > Institute of Engineering Systems and Design (iESD) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2021 14:47 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 13:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/pds.2021.460 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:179379 |
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