A Categorization and Visualization Scheme to Determine Engineering Change Effects in Companies

Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Design Research and Education (ICADRE14)

Year: 2014
Editor: Edwin Koh, Victor Shim, Tan Woei Wan, Ian Gibson, Andi S. Putra
Author: Wickel, Martina Carolina; Langer, Stefan; Chucholowski, Nepomuk; Lindemann, Udo
Institution: Technical Universtity Munich (TUM), Germany
Section: Design Methods
Page(s): 094-099
DOI number: 10.3850/978-981-09-1348-9_034
ISBN: 978-981-09-1348-9

Abstract

Engineering Changes (EC) are very important for companies’ competiveness - they are used to improve and adapt products. But each EC also involves resources and effort for the implementation and may lead to consequences within the company. Therefor a systematically acquisition and comprehension of effects of ECs is essential to decide on ECs. Within this work a categorization was developed based on a literature review and discussions with an industrial working group. The categorization sketches a possible “solution space” of effects and was then visualized in a scheme. Hereby possible effects can be captured at one glance.

Keywords: Design Methods