Identifying Controlling Features of Engineering Design Iteration: Revised September 1992 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Robert P. Smith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0656173394 ISBN 13: 9780656173396

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unlock how engineering design iterations can be understood and shortened with a practical modeling approach.

This book presents extensions to the Design Structure Matrix framework and introduces the Work Transformation Matrix to analyze how design tasks feed back and drive development time. Ideal for managers and engineers seeking to estimate, diagnose, and shorten iteration cycles in familiar brake-system and other complex design projects.

Drawing on real-world experience at General Motors, the author shows how to map tasks, information flows, and their dependencies. The approach helps identify the critical features of a design problem—groups of interrelated decisions that tend to require many iterations. It also explains how to simulate and interpret iteration behavior, even for large projects, using matrix mathematics.

• How to identify which design tasks are coupled and where iteration concentrates
• How to use the DSM to reveal input/output relationships among tasks
• How the Work Transformation Matrix helps estimate total development time
• How to recognize and analyze dominant design modes that drive iterations

Ideal for readers of engineering design management and practitioners who want to predict, manage, and reduce iteration time by focusing on the book’s core features and methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0656173394
• ISBN 13: 9780656173396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 38