Product development process intelligent analysis and improvement

Author

Yong, Yao ; Guangleng, Xiong ; Wenhui, Fan ; Xiaodong, Fan

Author_Institution

Nat. CIMS Eng. Res. Center, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

21-23 March 2004

Firstpage

412

Abstract

Product development process analysis and improvement are very important to enterprises, but most Product Data Management (PDM) systems are not good at them. This paper presents a method that integrates Design Structure Matrix (DSM), Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Expert System (ES) techniques to intelligently analyze and improve the product development process managed by PDM systems. Based on DSM representation, GA orders the sequence of activities in process with ES´s guiding to get a reasonable and optimal sequence. Based on theoretical research results, the Computer-Aided Process Improvement (CAPI) system was developed and was integrated to PDM.

Keywords

expert systems; genetic algorithms; product design; product development; computer aided process improvement system; design structure matrix; expert system; genetic algorithm; product data management systems; product development process intelligent analysis; Algorithm design and analysis; Control systems; Engineering management; Expert systems; Genetic algorithms; Genetic engineering; Information management; Power system management; Product development; Software development management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networking, Sensing and Control, 2004 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1810-7869

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8193-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNSC.2004.1297473

Filename

1297473