TOWARDS A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR ENGINEERING CHANGE MANAGEMENT

DS 77: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference

Year: 2014
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Niknam, M.; Huang, E.; Ovtcharova, J.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
Page(s): 1611-1620

Abstract

With the growing complexity in product development processes, the rapid market alterations and the raising criticality of leadtime, the Engineering Change Management (ECM) is becoming important to all organizations. One of the primary challenges in this area is the management of all information associated with the change and taking a wise decision respectively. As the human brain, could only consider limited amount of variables at a time, this paper conceptualizes the development of a Decision Support System for ECM to utilize the past information for current decision making processes.

Keywords: engineering change management (ECM), decision support system (DSS), product lifecycle management (PLM)

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