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Patterns of Product Development Interactions

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dc.contributor.author Eppinger, Steven
dc.contributor.author Salminen, Vesa
dc.date.accessioned 2003-12-10T16:22:35Z
dc.date.available 2003-12-10T16:22:35Z
dc.date.issued 2001-08-21
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3808
dc.description INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING DESIGN ICED 01 GLASGOW, AUGUST 21-23, 2001 en
dc.description.abstract Development of complex products and large systems is a highly interactive social process involving hundreds of people designing thousands of interrelated components and making millions of coupled decisions. Nevertheless, we have created methods to study the development process, identify its underlying structures, and critique its operation. In this article, we introduce three views of product development complexity: a process view, a product view, and an organization view. We are able to learn about the complex social phenomenon of product development by studying the patterns of interaction across the decomposed elements within each view. We also compare the alignment of the interaction patterns, between the product, process, and organization domains. We then propose metrics of product development complexity by studying and comparing these interaction patterns. Finally, we develop hypotheses regarding the patterns of product development interactions, which will be helpful to guide future research. en
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dc.description.sponsorship Center for Innovation in Product Development en
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dc.language.iso en_US
dc.subject complex products en
dc.subject interrelated components en
dc.subject product development complexity en
dc.subject decomposed elements en
dc.subject metrics of product development complexity en
dc.subject process modeling en
dc.subject product architecture en
dc.subject design teams en
dc.subject design structure matrix en
dc.subject complexity management en
dc.subject DSM en
dc.title Patterns of Product Development Interactions en
dc.type Working Paper en

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