McKay, A orcid.org/0000-0002-8187-4759, Chittenden, R, Hazlehurst, T orcid.org/0000-0001-9767-4391 et al. (3 more authors) (2022) The derivation and visualization of supply network risk profiles from product architectures. Systems Engineering, 25 (5). pp. 421-442. ISSN 1098-1241
Abstract
The architectures of extended enterprises, including the supply networks that design, develop and support large, complex, engineered products, often reflect system-level design decisions made very early in the product development process. Design tools used at this, preliminary design, stage focus on the physics and optimization of product system behaviors. Comparable tools for the consideration of extended enterprise perspectives at this stage are not available despite the costs of non-quality often attributed to supply chain issues related to early design decisions. This paper introduces an interface to a discrete event simulation package that derives supply chain processes from product system architectures, so enabling the quantification and visualization of supply chain risk in early design decisions. The interface uses input data, in the form of a product architecture and associated make-buy scenarios, which are available in the preliminary design process. Supplier data needed to drive the simulations is predefined and editable by users. Results from a proof-of-concept software prototype demonstrate the feasibility of generating enterprise architectures from product architectures and coupling these with a systems design vee model to create executable simulation models that can be used to identify, quantify and visualize engineering supply chain process operations and consequential risks.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Systems Engineering published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | extended enterprise; make-buy decisions; preliminary design; process simulation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Chemical & Process Engineering (Leeds) 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: | 25 May 2022 14:37 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:59 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/sys.21622 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:187307 |