Engineering Change during a product's lifecycle

Yethish Kanike, Saeema Ahmed

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    Abstract

    This paper describes a case study investigating the changes made to a complex product, namely an aero-engine through its product lifecycle. Document analysis of over 1500 reports covering eight years of the aero-engine lifecycle has been carried out. The research investigated how changes occur at different phases of a product lifecycle and how the causes of the changes differ during the different stages. The majority of changes were found to occur during the manufacturing and build phase. It was found that changes to the engineering specification together with meeting design criteria are the major causes during the prototype testing and development phase. The main cause of engineering change was found to be linked to its lifecycle phase.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication16th International conference on Engineering Design
    Place of PublicationParis
    PublisherDesign Society
    Publication date2007
    ISBN (Print)1-904670-02-4
    Publication statusPublished - 2007
    Event16th International Conference on Engineering Design - Paris, France
    Duration: 28 Aug 200731 Aug 2007
    Conference number: 16

    Conference

    Conference16th International Conference on Engineering Design
    Number16
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityParis
    Period28/08/200731/08/2007

    Keywords

    • Change
    • Failure
    • Engineering design

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