DocumentCode
2838147
Title
On the Exchange of Information in Collaborative Product Development
Author
Sreenivas, R.S. ; Yassine, A.
Author_Institution
Illinois Univ., Urbana
fYear
2006
fDate
15-17 Dec. 2006
Firstpage
2735
Lastpage
2740
Abstract
We develop a dynamic programming (DP) model of the product development (PD) process. We conceptualize PD as a sequence of decisions: whether to incorporate a piece of information that just arrived (i.e. became available) or wait longer. We utilize this formulation to derive optimal decision rules to determine whether (and when) to incorporate newly available information in an archetypal situation in PD. The managerial implications are discussed with several numerical examples.
Keywords
dynamic programming; groupware; product design; product development; collaborative product development; dynamic programming; information exchange; optimal decision rule; product design; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Costs; Delay effects; Dynamic programming; Job design; Process design; Product development; Solid modeling; Systems engineering and theory;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Industrial Technology, 2006. ICIT 2006. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Mumbai
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0726-5
Electronic_ISBN
1-4244-0726-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICIT.2006.372627
Filename
4237949
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