Enhancing traceability in heterogeneous design platforms
by Roland Stolt; Fredrik Elgh
International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM), Vol. 12, No. 1, 2019

Abstract: Companies are frequently using in-house developed scripts, macros and applications to support and automate the development of products and product variants. These items are often of different types creating a design platform with a multitude of dependencies. Such environments are often difficult to overview and maintain. In the current paper, an aerospace company with a design platform that has proven challenging to maintain has been studied. A method and limited software implementation have been tested and evaluated by interviewing four professionals at the company. The implementation provides a high granularity, which has been found to be necessary to give a quick platform overview and to facilitate maintenance and expansion of the design platform.

Online publication date: Mon, 06-Jan-2020

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