Framework for engineering design systems architectures evaluation and selection: case study

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dc.contributor.authorDarwish, Mohamed
dc.contributor.authorShehab, Essam
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-01T11:40:30Z
dc.date.available2017-06-01T11:40:30Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-09
dc.description.abstractEngineering companies face the challenge of developing complex Engineering Design Systems. These systems involve huge financial, people, and time investments within an environment that is characterised by continuously changing technologies and processes. Systems architecture provides the strategies and modelling approaches to ensure that adequate resources are spent in developing the possible To Be states for a target system. Architecture selection and evaluation involves evaluating different architectural alternatives with respect to multiple criteria, hence an Architecture Evaluation Framework which evaluates and down selects the appropriate architectures solutions is crucial to assess how these systems will deliver value over their lifetime, and where to channel the financial and human investments to maximize benefit delivered to the business’ bottom line. In this paper, an evaluation and selection architecture framework is proposed, which targets to maximise the alignment of Engineering Design Systems with business goals based on a quality centric architecture evaluation approach. The framework utilised software Quality Attributes as well as SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) and PEST (Political, Economic, Social, Technological) analyses to capture different viewpoints related to technical, political and business context. The framework proposed employing AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) to quantitatively elicit relationships between Quality Attributes trade-offs and architectural characteristics. The framework was applied to a real case study considering five Engineering Design Systems alternative architectures, where workshops with subject matter experts and stakeholders were held to reach an informative decision, that maximise architectural quality, whilst maintaining business alignment.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationMohamed Darwish, Essam Shehab, Framework for Engineering Design Systems Architectures Evaluation and Selection: Case Study, Procedia CIRP, Volume 60, 2017, Pages 128-132en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2212-8271
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.01.058
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11953
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.subjectEngineering design system architecutreen_UK
dc.subjectarchitecture evaluationen_UK
dc.subjectquality attributesen_UK
dc.subjectanalytic hierarchy process (AHP)en_UK
dc.subjectSWOT and PESTen_UK
dc.titleFramework for engineering design systems architectures evaluation and selection: case studyen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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