Do-It-Right-First-Time (Draft) Approach To Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Restructuring
This paper argues, using two real-world applications from the automotive industry, that the biggest benefit of a Design Structure Matrix (DSM) model may come not from resequencing and partitioning, but rather from rewiring the process/blocks. Rewiring means redefining relationships among el...
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| author | Whitney, Daniel E. Yassine, Ali A. Lavine, Jerry Zambito, Tony |
| author_facet | Whitney, Daniel E. Yassine, Ali A. Lavine, Jerry Zambito, Tony |
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| description | This paper argues, using two real-world applications from
the automotive industry, that the biggest benefit of a Design
Structure Matrix (DSM) model may come not from resequencing
and partitioning, but rather from rewiring the
process/blocks. Rewiring means redefining relationships
among elements and/or inserting new elements into the
matrix. This requires intimate understanding of the process
and cannot be done with application of context-free
partitioning algorithms.
The Do-it-Right-First-Time (DRFT) approach to DSM
restructuring is another way to look at a DSM by inspecting
the sources of iteration within a block and reversing it through
inserting a DRFT activity at the beginning of the block. In this
way, the traditional Design-Build-Test Cycle is reversed into
a DRFT-Design-Build Sequence." That is, the "wiring
diagram" of a process or system overpowers the behavior of the
individual nodes, so changing the system requires changing
the wiring. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/16722019-04-10T19:38:01Z Do-It-Right-First-Time (Draft) Approach To Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Restructuring Whitney, Daniel E. Yassine, Ali A. Lavine, Jerry Zambito, Tony design structure matrix product development process re-engineering This paper argues, using two real-world applications from the automotive industry, that the biggest benefit of a Design Structure Matrix (DSM) model may come not from resequencing and partitioning, but rather from rewiring the process/blocks. Rewiring means redefining relationships among elements and/or inserting new elements into the matrix. This requires intimate understanding of the process and cannot be done with application of context-free partitioning algorithms. The Do-it-Right-First-Time (DRFT) approach to DSM restructuring is another way to look at a DSM by inspecting the sources of iteration within a block and reversing it through inserting a DRFT activity at the beginning of the block. In this way, the traditional Design-Build-Test Cycle is reversed into a DRFT-Design-Build Sequence." That is, the "wiring diagram" of a process or system overpowers the behavior of the individual nodes, so changing the system requires changing the wiring. 2002-09-17T15:52:20Z 2002-09-17T15:52:20Z 2002-09-17T15:52:20Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1672 en_US 165435 bytes application/pdf application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | design structure matrix product development process re-engineering Whitney, Daniel E. Yassine, Ali A. Lavine, Jerry Zambito, Tony Do-It-Right-First-Time (Draft) Approach To Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Restructuring |
| title | Do-It-Right-First-Time (Draft) Approach To Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Restructuring |
| title_full | Do-It-Right-First-Time (Draft) Approach To Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Restructuring |
| title_fullStr | Do-It-Right-First-Time (Draft) Approach To Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Restructuring |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do-It-Right-First-Time (Draft) Approach To Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Restructuring |
| title_short | Do-It-Right-First-Time (Draft) Approach To Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Restructuring |
| title_sort | do it right first time draft approach to design structure matrix dsm restructuring |
| topic | design structure matrix product development process re-engineering |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1672 |
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