Complexity Metrics in Engineering Design: Managing the Structure of Design Processes

✍ Scribed by Matthias Kreimeyer, Udo Lindemann (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 418
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the results of several years’ research work on how to characterize complexity in engineering design with a specific regard to dependency modeling. The 52 complexity metrics that are presented show different facets of how complexity takes shape in design processes. The metrics are supported by a modeling method and a measurement framework to employ the metrics in a goal-oriented manner. The detailed description of all involved metrics and models makes it possible to apply the analysis approach to common process modeling methodologies. Three case studies from automotive process management illustrate the application to facilitate the transfer to other cases in an industrial context. The comprehensive appendix supplies additional details and checklists for structural analysis to generate a complete overview of current means of structural analysis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Complex processes in engineering design....Pages 9-32
The foundations of complexity metrics....Pages 33-92
Concept of an integrated set of complexity metrics....Pages 93-100
Modeling the structure of design processes....Pages 101-132
Complexity Metrics for Design Processes....Pages 133-172
The S-GQM framework to select metrics....Pages 173-190
Industrial application of metrics....Pages 191-225
Conclusions and outlook....Pages 227-234
References....Pages 235-269
Appendix....Pages 271-400
Back Matter....Pages 401-403

✦ Subjects

Complexity;Engineering Design;Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design;Business Information Systems