Requirements management: an enabler for concurrent engineering in the automotive industry
| dc.contributor.author | Kerr, C. I. V. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Roy, Rajkumar | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Sackett, Peter J. | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-29T17:42:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-09-29T17:42:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-05-01T00:00:00Z | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Defining and agreeing the product requirements is especially important when the design and manufacture of a system is part of an Extended Enterprise. To realize an all-inclusive concurrent engineering process, tools for the upstream design activities are needed. In practice, it is often difficult for the companies to have a shared understanding of what needs to be developed, and so specifications contain ambiguities in describing the product requirements. This paper clarifies the problem domain in the context of a complex product, designed and manufactured in a pan-national Extended Enterprise and serving a highly competitive market. The authors show how the challenge can be addressed through the application of ontology. A model of a requirements-management tool is proposed that will allow the various systems and associated levels of a product to be described and then shared through the supply chain. A prototype system is presented and illustrated through a case study from the automotive industry. | en_UK |
| dc.identifier.citation | C. I. V. Kerr; R. Roy; P. J. Sackett; Requirements management: an enabler for concurrent engineering in the automotive industry, International Journal of Production Research, Volume 44, Issue 9 May 2006 , pages 1703 - 1717 | - |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0020-7543 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207540500445263 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/1802 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_UK | - |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_UK |
| dc.subject | Requirements management | en_UK |
| dc.subject | Concurrent engineering | en_UK |
| dc.subject | Automotive industry | en_UK |
| dc.subject | Ontology | en_UK |
| dc.subject | Product development | en_UK |
| dc.title | Requirements management: an enabler for concurrent engineering in the automotive industry | en_UK |
| dc.type | Article | - |