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2013-08 |
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abstract |
Testing components, prototypes and products comprise essential, but time consuming
activities throughout the product development process particularly for complex iteratively
designed products. To reduce product development time, testing and design processes
are often overlapped. A key research question is how this overlapping can be planned
and managed to minimise risks and costs. The first part of this research study investigates
how a case study company plans testing and design processes and how they manage these
overlaps. The second part of the study proposes a significant modification to the
existing process configuration for design and testing, which explicitly identifies
virtual testing, that is an extension to Computer Aided Engineering which mirrors
the testing process through product modelling and simulation, as a distinct and significant
activity used to (a) enhance and (b) replace some physical tests. The analysis shows
how virtual testing can mediate information flows between overlapping (re)design and
physical tests. The effects of virtual testing to support overlap of test and (re)design
is analysed for the development phases of diesel engine design at a case study company.
We assess the costs and risks of overlaps and their amelioration through targeted
virtual testing. Finally, using the analysis of the complex interactions between (re)design,
physical and virtual testing, and the scope for replacing physical with virtual testing
is examined. |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/171517 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/171518 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/171693 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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Tahera, Khadija ; Earl, Chris F. and Eckert, Claudia (2013). Improving overlapping
between testing and design in engineering product development processes. In: ASME
2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers
and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), 4-7 Aug 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA.
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label |
Tahera, Khadija ; Earl, Chris F. and Eckert, Claudia (2013). Improving overlapping
between testing and design in engineering product development processes. In: ASME
2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers
and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), 4-7 Aug 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA. |
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Title |
Improving overlapping between testing and design in engineering product development
processes |
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oro |