Engineering Change Management

Engineering changes are unavoidable and occur throughout the lifecycle of products. Due to the high interconnectivity of engineering products, a single change to one component usually has knock-on effects on other components causing further changes. This change propagation significantly affects the success of a product in the market by increasing development cost and time-to-market. As such engineering change management is essential to companies, but it is a complex task for managers and researchers alike. To address this challenge, the book at hand investigates the state-of-the-art of research in engineering change management and develops a method to support engineering change propagation analysis, termed FBS Linkage. This method integrates functional reasoning with change prediction. A product is modelled as a network of its functional, behavioural, and structural attributes. Change propagation is then described as spread between the elements along the links of this network.

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Dr Bahram Hamraz received his PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and a "Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur" degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from the Hamburg University of Technology. His research is concerned with engineering changes in complex designs and has contributed to several publications in renowned journals.