Engineering design memory for design rationale and change management toward innovation

Lionel Roucoules (1) , Esma Yahia (1) , Widad Es Soufi (1) , Serge Tichkiewitch (2)

1 LSIS - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes
2 G-SCOP_CPP - Conception Produit Process

As the metaphor of a film, engineering design is a process where stakeholders take decisions from product requirements to the final designed system. Unfortunately, industries lack of long term project memories to go back and forth in order to remember actions and decisions. That generates time consuming retrieval tasks that have definitively no added value since they aim at seeking past information. This paper proposes an extension of a design process meta-model that aims at tracing the project design memory. Instead of seeking past information, industries can look forward innovation and manage changes coming from new technologies, resources, KPI...

Mots clés: Decision making; Product development; Knowledge management

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur; Génie mécanique [physics.class-ph]

Lionel Roucoules, Esma Yahia, Widad Es Soufi, Serge Tichkiewitch. Engineering design memory for design rationale and change management toward innovation. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 2016, 65 (1), pp.193-196. ⟨10.1016/j.cirp.2016.04.046⟩. ⟨hal-01403255⟩