Meeting of workgroups in Berkeley, CA - August 2009
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Workshop on Design Structure Matrix (DSM) and Complexity in AEC Systems
UC Berkeley, PS2L Lab, 28 August 2009
hosted by Professor Iris Tommelein
Registraton (expired, http://www.regonline.com/DSM)
This workshop on lean design management focused on the use of matrix models (Design Structure Matrix, DSM, and Multiple Domain Matrix ,MDM) to gain deeper understanding of complexity in AEC systems that is value-adding vs. waste. The workshop was run in collaboration with colleagues from the UK reporting on their use of DSM in design management, and colleagues from the Technical University Munich reporting on their DSM/MDM work in lean, new product development.
Agenda and discussion
9:00 Welcome and introductions - Iris Tommelein (Slides)
9:10 Lean perspective on product and process complexity- Iris Tommelein
9:20 Using DSM for work structuring - Dr. Stan Tuholski, LLNL (Slides)
DSM can be linked to cross-functional (swim-lane) diagrams that show who is responsible for which scope of work in project delivery. Through application on a retrofit project, I will illustrate how DSM helped to allocate design responsibilities and explore design alternatives.
9:50 The Act of Design, by Design - Jamie Hammond, Adept (Slides)
Using DSM can help us identify opportunities for improved design team integration. Industrial applications shall be presented, highlighting how DSM and complementary design management practices have been used to alter the behavior of multi-disciplinary project teams in order to move towards an integrated collaborative approach to problem solving.
10:20 Coffee
10:45 DSM and MDM - Prof. Udo Lindemann, TU München
11:00 Lean Development and MDM - Martin Graebsch, TU München (Slides)
The speculative presentation centers on questions regarding Lean Product Development (PD) and MDM methodology. How do Lean PD and complexity relate? Is complexity a waste type? In how far can MDM methodology help reducing waste? Can MDMs be deployed complementary to Value Stream Maps in analyzing PD? What are the difficulties?
11:30 Structural Measurement System for Engineering Design Processes - Matthias Kreimeyer, TU München (Slides)
Processes are more and more complex to assess them systematically, the structure of a process (i.e., how the different entities are coupled) can be evaluated to draw inferences about the behavior of the process. Using complexity metrics, a snapshot of a given process can be obtained that will point to possible weak spots. The presentation shows the overall framework and demonstrates its use on a short a case study from automotive design.
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Coupling between the customer and innovative product design - Andreas Kain, TU München (Slides)
To open up new fields for innovations in existing products, the study of the life cycle of a product allows to draw conclusions about potential improvements for a product architecture by reviewing the coupling between the product, the different use cases it is employed in and the process of using the product in these use cases. How this can be done is shown using a case study from tool design.
13:30 Student presentations on ongoing work
14:00 Brainstorming on research questions, experiments, and solicitation of volunteers to participate in research, next steps
14:45 Plus/Delta & Wrap Up
15:00 Adjourn
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