Product development resilience through set‐based design

Stephen Rapp, Ratna Chinnam, Norbert Doerry, Alper Murat and Gary Witus

Systems Engineering, 2018, vol. 21, issue 5, 490-500

Abstract: Often during a system Product Development program, external factors or requirements change, forcing system design change. This uncertainty adversely affects program outcome, often adding to development time and cost, production cost, and can compromise system performance. We present a development approach that minimizes the impacts, by proactively considering the possibility of changes in the external factors and the implications of mid‐course design changes. The approach considers the set of alternative designs and the burdens of a mid‐course change from one design to another in determining the relative value of a specific design through the set‐based design methodology. The approach considers and plans parallel (redundant) development of alternative designs with progressive selection of options, including time‐versus‐cost tradeoffs and the impact change‐costs. The approach includes a framework of the development process addressing design and integration lead‐times, their relationship to the time‐order of design decisions, and the time‐dependent burden of design changes. We also compare set‐based and single point design schemes.

Date: 2018
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