Metrics for Evaluation of the Product Design Process

9634768乌尔曼这笔赠款提供资金，用于开发可供执业工程师和经理评估和改进产品开发过程的指标。这些指标将衡量当前流程，指出潜在的流程低效，并帮助评估新的最佳实践。这些衡量标准将基于对产品开发期间使用的信息演变和决策结构的表征。设计过程稳健性的概念将作为措施的基础。当确定非健壮的过程时，在本研究期间制定的指南将提供改进的机会和记录提高设计过程效率的潜力的能力。以产品为基础的行业面临着持续的压力，需要在更短的时间和更少的资源下设计和生产新的、质量越来越高的产品。随着这种压力的到来，人们意识到已知的和可管理的产品开发过程的重要性。许多大公司花费了相当多的时间和精力来记录他们的开发过程。流程中集成了许多行业范围的最佳实践(例如，质量功能部署、功能建模、实验设计、装配设计)。许多小公司才刚刚开始识别和尝试控制决定其产品演变的过程。无论是大公司还是小公司，都需要更好的工具来衡量产品设计过程标准，如ISO-9000，标准要求产品开发过程，但没有就如何开发、衡量和确保这种过程的有用性提供指导。这项研究将产生可供行业使用的自我评估和指导工具，以改进其产品设计过程。

9634768 Ullman This grant provides funding for the development of metrics usable by practicing engineers and managers to evaluate and improve the product development process. These metrics will measure the current process, point to potential process inefficiencies, and assist in the evaluation of new best practices. The metrics will be based on characterizing the information evolution and decision structure used during product development. The concept of design process robustness will be developed as a foundation for the measures. When non-robust processes are identified, guidelines developed during this research will provide opportunities for improvement and the ability to document the potential for increased design process efficiency. Product-based industries are under continuous pressure to design and produce new, and increasingly higher quality, products in less time and with fewer resources. With this pressure has come the realization of the importance of a known and managed product development process. Many large companies have spent considerable time and effort documenting their development process. Integrated within the process are many industry-wide best practices (for example, quality function deployment, functional modeling, design of experiments, design for assembly). Many small companies have only just begun to identify and attempt to control the processes that determine the evolution of their products. Both large and small companies need better tools for measuring the product design process Standards, like ISO-9000, require a product development process but give no guidance on how to develop, measure and ensure the usefulness of such a process. This research will result in tools usable by industry for self assessment and guidance to improve their product design process.