FORFLOW

BAVARIAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR PROCESS- AND WORKFLOW SUPPORT FOR PLANNING AND CONTROLLING PROCEDURES IN THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

2.2 - Influence of Aspects of DfX on Product Development Process

Field of work:

In the product development process decisions are made with the purpose to fix the structure and the figure of the product whereas different aspects of Design for X (DfX) (e.g. Design for cost, Design for assembling) have to be fulfilled as optimisation criteria. For many DfX aspects a huge number of methods and tools is available. Their results provide as basis for decisions relating the examined aspect. The classification of single methods at the temporal process of the product development is presently fixed only very roughly, interactions between the methods are neglected. If only single DfX-aspects are zoomed in, without considering the whole, suboptimal partial decisions are generally received, which provoke iterations and so extend the product development process. In order to integrate different DfX-aspects more specific in the product development process, first at all the associated methods are described in detail, while they are regarded as black box models, to which input- and output data can be assigned. Furthermore resulting product data should be compared to typical process progress. So a basis is build to activate the next steps in the product development process, in the end, for the purpose of simultaneous engineering. With knowledge of the process propelling parameters and the existence of the necessary product describing para- meters the so far sequential proceeding developing processes can now take place parallel. So the product development process can be reduced significantly.