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The engineering change management becomes increasingly important in modern product development. Since the amount of changes, the complexity as well as the cost of engineering changes increases due to the complexity of technical systems, an efficient handling of changes is crucial. Hence, a systematic approach to investigate the engineering change management regarding the effort distribution within...Show More
Product development faces a conflict of increasing complexity in products and processes as well as a need for increased flexibility and agility. While structured reference processes create a baseline, their adaptation of tailoring for particular projects is necessary. While approaches for automated tailoring have been developed in the area of software engineering, these focus on automation and col...Show More
The paper provides a comprehensive literature research regarding the field of data analysis in engineering change management. The focus is on a posteriori analysis methods of engineering change data. After an introduction to the topic, identified a posteriori data analysis procedures in the engineering change management are listed and supplemented by further a priori analysis procedures. Furthermo...Show More
Successful communication and collaboration within companies is crucial for competitive product development. Hence, this paper presents an approach to identify organizational dependencies based on past engineering change information using structural complexity management and graph-based analysis. It therefore introduces a meta-model describing the interrelations in change information and defines ru...Show More
In product development, a current innovation driver is the integration of services through a shift towards product-service systems (PSS). Therefore, products are extended by additional services, whereas this discipline integration, combined with a necessary future oriented perspective, requires a systematic support for planning and handling complexity. In this context, increasing transparency as w...Show More
Although agile development is increasingly being applied outside software development, the methods, tools and techniques are still new to the manufacturing industry. A major barrier is the difficulty to measure the benefits and limitations. Comparing the working practices of a team before and after implementing agile methods would provide some insights into the applicability and usefulness of conc...Show More
In today's globalization process technical Product-Service Systems (PSS) are subject to cyclic innovations. These innovations imply different changes in various engineering domains (i.e. product development, manufacturing systems and automated Production Systems). To cope with these changes, various approaches are developed within each domain. On the contrary, these domains are tightly coupled and...Show More
Despite the rapid growth of mobility services, high uncertainty remains about how business models should be composed in the future. Several pilot projects and multiple ride hailing services have already explored the opportunities of chauffeured ride hailing and thereby produced large amounts of data. However, it is unclear, whether the introduction of autonomous vehicles will change business model...Show More
Project planning is a necessary but repetitive and time-consuming activity. Organizational reference process models are often only used as marginal input for project planning, which is mostly conducted manually by experts. Process Tailoring has been introduced in software engineering as a means to methodically instantiate project plans from reference models. However, corresponding approaches focus...Show More
An increasing number of technical products are being equipped with connectivity components, which enables the collection of use phase data. Such data helps to better design products or understand customer needs. Available studies only take a cross-industry perspective on data analytics. Due to longer development and product life cycles, engineering companies work under special circumstances. The a...Show More
This paper gives an overview of the challenges in the implementation of agile development in mechatronic development processes. For this purpose, 31 situations, 13 challenges, and three problem areas are identified in an innovative company department. This department operates like a start-up surrounded by a business group structure. First improvements to solve challenges are implemented in the dep...Show More
Changes in product development processes can occur for many reasons, some of which are difficult to predict or anticipate [1]. They are caused externally (e.g. change in customer needs) or internally (e.g. product complexity). This leads to a limited effectiveness of traditional (product-) developments methods and requires the incorporation of new ones. One of the main strategies handling uncertai...Show More
Due to rapid technology change and increased innovation dynamic, product development is related with high uncertainty and complexity [2]. As a consequence of the shortened product life-cycles, agile development becomes more important. It fosters cross-functional project work and enables a team to react fast and flexible to a continuously changing environment. Central aspect of the agile approach w...Show More
Agile approaches have matured for software projects while hardware projects continue to embrace traditional development approaches. Many innovation projects fail due to late clarification of technical feasibility. Especially high-tech projects require innovative solutions to meet the restrictions of cost and schedule while still delivering high performance critical systems. Since Scrum does not ha...Show More
When product development involves many uncertainties and changes are highly likely, agile approaches are valuable. They integrate customers into the development process frequently and explore what satisfies them best. For that, the development team builds working prototypes, demonstrates them and receives feedback being incorporated into the next iteration. The team collects validated learnings an...Show More
TAF Agile Framework addresses the challenge of providing a methods framework for agile mechatronic product development. It aims to reduce uncertainty towards the product within minimum time and resources by taking a holistic, interdisciplinary perspective on the product and iteratively increases knowledge by applying the scientific method to the domains of desirability, feasibility and viability. ...Show More
In the context of the Mechanical Engineering (ME) 203 Design and Manufacturing course at Stanford University, a mixed method research design called embedded design using qualitative and quantitative data was performed to explore (i) how (physical) prototyping and prototypes were used students referred to as novice designers in the ME 203 design process, (ii) the effect of prototyping on novice des...Show More
A typical agile project is characterized by fuzziness. However, this decreases from iteration to iteration by the learning effect of measurable partial results, like prototypes or product increments [6, p. 20]. In the agile process, artifacts are generated by the application of methods. They contain all the information that is required by the product development process and reflect the current sta...Show More
Mechatronic engineering is characterized by interaction of the three disciplines mechanical, electrical and software engineering. The ongoing shift in mechatronics towards a growing importance of information technology leads to increasing discipline interfaces and increasing product complexity. Here, product models are an important artefact to face these challenges and to coordinate the interdisci...Show More
The efficient management of engineering changes highly influences the success of an engineering design project. Additionally, the increasing complexity, the faster development cycles and the growing competition in many industries turn the focus in engineering science to the engineering change management and its improvement. Although the research activity increased steadily in recent years, the lit...Show More
Designing positive User Experience (UX) with products enables the creation of unique selling propositions. Being strongly driven by cognitive processes rather than mere product properties, UX is difficult to realize successfully. While User Experience Design (UXD) is a rather young discipline within product development other disciplines outside engineering design traditionally focus on creating ex...Show More
Common modeling in interdisciplinary contexts, such as innovation management, is a challenge, given that different disciplines often do not fully understand each other's models and paradigms. Building on the work of an interdisciplinary research collaboration, we explore, in which way interdisciplinary modeling can enrich innovation management. We show that models can be described on a general lev...Show More
Shorter product life cycles require shorter innovation cycles which forces companies to launch new innovative products on the market at increasingly shorter intervals to stay competitive. A promising approach to face this challenge is described as the new paradigm of Open Innovation (OI) where knowledge of external partners (e.g. suppliers, product users or universities) is used to accelerate the ...Show More
In an increasingly complex business environment program managers have to take dependencies within the product domain, process domain and organization into account. While activity dependence is still predominantly perceived as only an input-output relationship, a more detailed understanding of activity dependence is expected to improve program and project performance. This paper contributes to the ...Show More
Engineering design processes are complex systems resulting from complex tasks. While the definition and management of engineering design processes are important tasks, as evidenced by empirical studies, a number of unsolved research questions persists in literature. Within this paper, current research issues identified in a literature review are compared with results from empirical studies in orde...Show More