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WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESSES?
Maier, Anja M.; Störrle, Harald
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Year:
2011
Editor:
Culley, S.J.; Hicks, B.J.; McAloone, T.C.; Howard, T.J. & Clarkson, P.J.
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Series:
ICED
Section:
Design Processes
Page(s):
188-198
Abstract:
This paper studies the characteristic properties of Engineering Design (ED) processes from a process modeling perspective. In a first step, we extracted nine characteristics of engineering design processes from the literature and in a second step validated the findings using results from our survey among academic and industrial ED process modeling experts. In a third step, we added a further nine characteristics from personal experiences in the Language Engineering Domain to capture the pragmatic perspective. We arrive at a comprehensive set of 18 characteristics grouped into 6 challenges for process modeling in the engineering design domain. The challenges process modelers need to address when using and developing process modeling approaches and tools are: Development), Collaboration, Products & Services, Formality, Pragmatics, and Flexibility. We then compare the importance of elicited and suggested challenges and characteristics within engineering design with software engineering and business process modeling and discuss similarities and differences.
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