This question relates to research into the management of engineering design information and the impact of innovation.
Complex products such as aircraft, trains and ships are high-value, long-life assets that are typically managed as a fleet over a period of 20 to 30 years.
Managing technology upgrades (modifications/ engineering changes) can be challenging because of the complex relationships and interdependencies that exist between different systems components.
An additional factor relates to the phenomenon of design divergence that can be observed as a
fleet of products age.
I'd be interested in the quality of software available to model the design information in this scenario.
Dear Morris,
Hello
The question which has been inquired by you is, in fact, an important and also interesting question in field of “Design for Changeability” in discipline of systems engineering.
Dear , it is important to note that your concerned question actually encompasses a lot of sub-questions including design for “Adaptability”, “flexibility”, “reconfigurability”, “reliability/robustness”, and so forth. In addition, “propagation of change into the system due to change of one or more component(s) of the system under study. Moreover, in this regard, quantitative measurement of change in the system is another interesting and relevant issue.
As a useful suggestion to address and deal with the above challenges in system design, you could have a comprehensive study in both Axiomatic Design (AD) theory (especially, the information axiom of this theory to compute information content of a design to satisfy the system requirements) and “Design Structure Matrix (DSM) (especially, for the aim of studying the role of dependencies and/or interaction between any interest pair of system elements).
I think that the article attached to this reply could be a useful step to begin.
Hope the above helps!
Good luck!
Ali
Dear Ashley Morris,
I think catia v5 is suitable. The software includes many different modules for complex design processes.
Regards
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