Collaborative Research: SGER: Exploring Interrelationships between Enterprise Product Planning and Engineering Product Development Using Multilevel Optimization

这项探索性研究（SGER）合作小额赠款的目标是探索企业产品规划和工程产品开发之间的相互关系，并使用多级优化方法形式化它们的协调过程，包括考虑不确定性。以前，从工程的角度使用分布式多层数学优化方法成功地对工件的设计进行了建模，但是在同一框架中连接业务和工程学科是一个新兴的领域。集成制造驱动的考虑是一项高风险的工作，因为它需要复杂的模型，这些模型会随着所涉及的产品和过程而发生巨大变化。不确定性的处理（表征、量化和传播）将在本研究中提出额外的挑战。拟议的项目是探索性的，但将对一系列行业和产品的复杂工程系统的设计产生深远的影响。如果成功，该研究将为复杂工程系统设计中的组织和计算挑战提供严谨而实用的方法。将对市场与工程建模和决策之间的相互作用有更深入、更基本的了解。该研究将整合到多个机构的课程中，共享教材、方法和范例，并在设计教育中引领新的教学方向。

The objective of this collaborative Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) is to explore the interrelationships between enterprise product planning and engineering product development and to formalize their coordination process using a multilevel optimization approach, including consideration of uncertainty. Design of artifacts has been successfully modeled previously using distributed multilevel mathematical optimization methodologies from the engineering perspective, but linking the business and engineering disciplines in the same framework is an emerging area. Integrating manufacturing-driven considerations is a high risk endeavor, since it requires sophisticated models that vary dramatically with the product and processes involved. Treatment of uncertainty (representation, quantification, and propagation) will pose an additional challenge in this research. The proposed project is exploratory but will have a profound impact on the design of complex engineering systems across a range of industries and products. If successful, the proposed research will offer a rigorous but practical approach to the organizational and computational challenges in complex engineering system design. A deeper, fundamental understanding of the interaction between market and engineering modeling and decision making will be gained. The research will be integrated into courses at multiple institutions, sharing teaching materials, methods, and exemplars, and piloting new teaching directions in design education.