Coordination Approaches and Systems - Part II: An Operational Perspective

Coates, Graham; Whitfield, Robert Ian; Duffy, Alex H. B.; Hills, Bill

doi:10.1007/s001630012073

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“…There has been increasing academic and industrial interest in work on control while exchanging and sharing data on the design process (Klein 1995;Crowston 1997;Conroy and Soltan 1997;Coates et al 2000). Our proposal here is to facilitate collaboration by identifying the parameters that influence it, so that it would be possible to have an anticipative control and not only a reacting one.…”

Section: Support Decision-making To Control Collaborative Designmentioning

confidence: 97%

Product innovation through management of collaborative design in concurrent engineering

Girard

Legardeur

Merlo

2007

International Journal of Technology Management &Amp; Sustainable Development

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The control of engineering design processes is a complex problem that takes place within conflicting contexts combining technical, economic and social aspects. This paper presents the results of a study on the development of new methods and tools for the control of manufactured product design. In discussing these approaches, the paper shows their limitations with respect to the control of design coordination and collaboration, especially when the sociotechnical aspects of the design process are studied. A design control model and collaboration taxonomy that would enhance decisions concerning the coordination of design projects is presented. The tools discussed are the result of empirical studies based on the experiences of different industrial companies. The paper concludes by highlighting how these tools can be used for routine-based as well as innovative project operations.

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Section: Support Decision-making To Control Collaborative Designmentioning

confidence: 97%

Product innovation through management of collaborative design in concurrent engineering

Girard

Legardeur

Merlo

2007

International Journal of Technology Management &Amp; Sustainable Development

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“…On the one hand Coates et al [11] suggest that task management, scheduling, planning, and resource management are the most important issues when it comes to operational co-ordination. On the other hand the collaboration performance between codesign partners and suppliers [12,13] offers the possibility of gaining fast access to specialist knowledge and capabilities, and of spreading and sharing costs and risks, and of better exploitation of the expertise of the partners [14].…”

Section: Design Co-ordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Actors’ networks management for design co-ordination

Serna¹,

Merlo²,

Zolghadri³

et al. 2011

Int J Interact Des Manuf

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In a worldwide context of collaborative development of new products and/or services, companies have to control the design process to increase design performance. Formal and informal networks of actors are activated during the very first phases of product development projects in order to define the company's partners in a more efficient way. Our goal is to study relationships between co-design projects and networks of partners in order to help project managers in setting up design teams. This leads to the identification of several drivers which influence the actors' network use and leading. Drivers such as project organisational structure, concurrent engineering techniques, groupware-like and knowledge-based systems support and enhance such networks. We will base our experimental issues on an industrial case study from energy production sector. This industrial case explores the structure and the management of actors' networks.

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“…Since the feature model is usually represented as a dependency graph, the design features can be classified into several groups according to the feature relationships [9]. As presented by Coates et al [12], coordination is basically the process of managing of dependencies between design activities. Hence, a proper dependency scope is critical for achieving a parallel working paradigm and avoiding the potential operation conflicts.…”

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Coordination for replicated collaborative feature modeling

Yang

Ong

Nee

2010

Int J Interact Des Manuf

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Collaborative feature modeling has been proposed and applied in product design for improving design quality and shortening lead-time. The coordination mechanism for scheduling the collaborative design activities has been a topic of significant research effort. Total-locking mechanism and granular locking mechanism have been reported. However, these granular locking mechanisms have some limitations. Although the designers can edit different parts of a feature model at the same time, there are some conflicts due to feature interactions. Besides, in order to maintain consistency of the replicated design models, the order of execution of the 'feature create operations' must be kept consistent at the client sites. In this research, a fine granular locking mechanism is proposed for a replicated collaboration system. The locking granularity is defined according to feature relationships, and the potential operation conflicts are resolved using a naming and matching mechanism. In the proposed approach, a design model can be divided into several feature portions, thus a parallel working paradigm can be achieved. The 'feature create operation' is processed differently from the 'feature modify operation' so as to maintain consistency of the order of the features created. The limitation of this approach is that the effectiveness depends on the parentchild relations of the features. The proposed coordination approach has been validated in a proof-of-concept prototype system developed based on Java and Open CASCADE.

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Coordination Approaches and Systems - Part II: An Operational Perspective

Cited by 32 publications

References 21 publications

Product innovation through management of collaborative design in concurrent engineering

Product innovation through management of collaborative design in concurrent engineering

Actors’ networks management for design co-ordination

Coordination for replicated collaborative feature modeling

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