TY - GEN
T1 - Design customisation in multi-project environments
T2 - 8th International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, TMCE 2010
AU - Eckert, Claudia
AU - Wynn, David
AU - Clarkson, John
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Adapting a design to the needs of a specific customer can be seen as a process in which an existing product is changed to incorporate desired properties and to exclude undesired ones. In a multi-project environment, many such projects are typically in execution at any given time and must compete for limited resources. Various strategies and approaches may be taken to organise such multi-project systems in order to maximise their effectiveness. This paper identifies and discusses several such strategies and shows how simulation can be used to explore their effectiveness in different contexts. Based on a case study of a simple, yet real customisation environment, we outline a discrete-event Monte-Carlo simulation model that we developed and which we argue can be used to explore some of the main issues. Although based on a simple example, we propose that the basic structure of our model could be used to derive insights for multi-project customisation environments in complex engineering domains.
AB - Adapting a design to the needs of a specific customer can be seen as a process in which an existing product is changed to incorporate desired properties and to exclude undesired ones. In a multi-project environment, many such projects are typically in execution at any given time and must compete for limited resources. Various strategies and approaches may be taken to organise such multi-project systems in order to maximise their effectiveness. This paper identifies and discusses several such strategies and shows how simulation can be used to explore their effectiveness in different contexts. Based on a case study of a simple, yet real customisation environment, we outline a discrete-event Monte-Carlo simulation model that we developed and which we argue can be used to explore some of the main issues. Although based on a simple example, we propose that the basic structure of our model could be used to derive insights for multi-project customisation environments in complex engineering domains.
KW - Design customisation
KW - Design process simulation
KW - Platform strategy
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79960501921
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960501921
SN - 9789051550603
T3 - Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, TMCE 2010
SP - 975
EP - 988
BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, TMCE 2010
Y2 - 12 April 2010 through 16 April 2010
ER -