Abstract
This paper focuses upon understanding the characteristics of engineering changes, in particular changes that emerge during the service phase of complex products, and on how these changes can be related to the product development process. For this purpose, a set of engineering change reports from an aerospace engine has been analyzed and the findings have been compared with change documentation from drilling machinery for the oil industry.
These findings give insights into which phases of the design process should be modified in order to reduce the number of change requests from the service phase and to enable designers to efficiently answer the unavoidable change requests. This can be used to improve the product development process in order to take into account the factors leading to changes.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2008 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference : 13th Design for Manufacturing and the Lifecycle Conference (DFMLC) |
| Publication date | 2008 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0-7918-3831-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
| Event | 2008 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference: 13th Design for Manufacturing and the Lifecycle Conference (DFMLC) - New York City, United States Duration: 3 Aug 2008 → 6 Aug 2008 |
Conference
| Conference | 2008 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | New York City |
| Period | 03/08/2008 → 06/08/2008 |
Bibliographical note
Pagination: DETC2008-49716Keywords
- product lifecycle
- Engineering changes
- engineering knowledge
- indexing
- service