TY - GEN
T1 - DO-IT-RIGHT-FIRST-TIME (DRFT) APPROACH TO DESIGN STRUCTURE MATRIX (DSM) RESTRUCTURING
AU - Yassine, Ali A.
AU - Whitney, Daniel E.
AU - Lavine, Jerry
AU - Zambito, Tony
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2000 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). All rights reserved.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Design Structure Matrix
KW - Process Re-engineering
KW - Product development
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2000/DTM-14547
DO - 10.1115/DETC2000/DTM-14547
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
SP - 41
EP - 48
BT - 12th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2000 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC-CIE 2000
Y2 - 10 September 2000 through 13 September 2000
ER -