Conference paper
What are the Characteristics of Engineering Design Processes?
Work, Technology and Organisation, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark1
Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
Software Engineering, Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark3
Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark4
This paper studies the characteristic properties of Engineering Design (ED) processes from a process modelling perspective. In a first step, we extracted nine characteristics of engineering design processes from the literature and in a second step validated the findings using results from our survey among academic and industrial ED process modelling experts.
In a third step, we added a further nine characteristics from personal experiences in the Language Engineering Domain to capture the pragmatic perspective. We arrive at a comprehensive set of 18 characteristics grouped into 6 challenges for process modelling in the engineering design domain. The challenges process modelers need to address when using and developing process modelling approaches and tools are: Development, Collaboration, Products & Services, Formality, Pragmatics, and Flexibility.
We then compare the importance of elicited and suggested challenges and characteristics within engineering design with software engineering and business process modelling and discuss similarities and differences.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Design Society |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Pages: | 188-198 |
| Proceedings: | 18th International Conference on Engineering Design : Impacting Society Through Engineering Design |
| Journal subtitle: | Impacting Society Through Engineering Design |
| ISBN: | 1904670210 and 9781904670216 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| ORCIDs: | Maier, Anja |
