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What is the impact of new design methodologies and methods on the industrial product development process and its productivity? This is one of the key questions for today’s industrial engineering companies when they decide on the introduction of new methods or tools, as well as for researchers and tool providers when they assess their ideas and work. A quantitative (at best monetary) assessment of a new design method’s value and impact will increase a manager’s decision basis significantly and will lead to well directed investments in process optimisations.
It is not sufficient to analyse the impact of a new design method just for the specific process step it is applied to. Implications on following steps, sometimes on the whole engineering process must be considered as well. Furthermore, decisions on the use of new design methods must be made on a multi-criteria basis through the well-known cost/time/quality triangle (e.g. Burghardt, 2006).
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Koppe, R., Häusler, S., Poppen, F., Hahn, A. (2010). Process Model Based Methodology for Impact Analysis of New Design Methods. In: Heisig, P., Clarkson, P., Vajna, S. (eds) Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-199-8_5
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