Chapter 4: Collaborative Product Development

Title: Managing product properties within the automotive industry

Author(s): C. Westphal, S. Wartzack

Address: Lehrstuhl für Konstruktionstechnik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Martensstraße 9, 91058 Erlangen, Germany | Lehrstuhl für Konstruktionstechnik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Martensstraße 9, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2010 pp. 172 - 181

Abstract/Summary: Fulfilling and safeguarding of product properties and functions are some of the most important tasks in modern product development. Resulting of the huge mass of variants efficient ways have to be found to evaluate product properties during fixed milestones defining the product development project. In this paper a theoretical framework should be presented how to deduct product properties to milestone specific assessment criteria and how to generate the required data volume as a kind of data freeze in order to supply the relevant simulation models in front of such milestones.

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