Engineering changes are inevitable in a product development life cycle. The requests for engineering changes can be due to new customer requirements, emergence of new technology, market feedback, or variations of components and raw materials. Each change generates a level of impact on costs, time to market, tasks and schedules of related processes, and product components. Change management tools available today focus on the management of document and process changes. Assessments of change impact are typically based on the “rule of thumb”. Our research has developed a methodology and related techniques to quantify and analyze the impact of engineering changes to enable faster and more accurate decision-making in engineering change management. Reported in this paper are investigations of industrial requirements and fundamental issues of change impact analysis as well as related research and techniques. A framework for a knowledge-supported change impact analysis system is proposed. Three critical issues of system implementation, namely integrated design information model, change plan generator and impact estimation algorithms, are addressed. Finally the benefits and future work are discussed.
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ASME 2003 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
September 2–6, 2003
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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0-7918-3700-9
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A Knowledge-Supported System for Engineering Change Impact Analysis
Sha Ma,
Sha Ma
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
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Bin Song,
Bin Song
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
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Wen Feng Lu,
Wen Feng Lu
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
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Cheng Feng Zhu
Cheng Feng Zhu
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
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Sha Ma
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
Bin Song
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
Wen Feng Lu
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
Cheng Feng Zhu
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
Paper No:
DETC2003/DAC-48749, pp. 439-447; 9 pages
Published Online:
June 23, 2008
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Ma, S, Song, B, Lu, WF, & Zhu, CF. "A Knowledge-Supported System for Engineering Change Impact Analysis." Proceedings of the ASME 2003 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 2: 29th Design Automation Conference, Parts A and B. Chicago, Illinois, USA. September 2–6, 2003. pp. 439-447. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2003/DAC-48749
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