UNCERTAINTY CONSIDERATIONS BY CONTEXT FACTORS FOR THE MONITORING OF THE DEGREE OF PRODUCT MATURITY
DS 77: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference
Year: 2014
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Luft, T.; Reitmeier, J.; Wartzack, S.; Paetzold, K.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN PROCESSES
Page(s): 893-904
Abstract
As the product development process is a knowledge and information handling process, information acquisition, processing and sharing is very important. However, information is often subject to uncertainty and influenced by the context. Therefore, this paper presents a novel approach for uncertainty considerations with contextual factors by using a matrix-based product description. This will be used to facilitate the situation-specific planning of virtual validations, an efficient monitoring of the degree of product maturity and the management of goal-oriented iteration cycles.
Keywords: uncertainty, design structure matrix, property validation, maturity management, early design, decision making