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CHOOSING THE RIGHT MEASURES TO IMPROVE COLLABORATION BETWEEN DESIGN AND SIMULATION DEPARTMENTS

Part of: Design Organisation and Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

S. Schweigert-Recksiek  and
U. Lindemann
S. Schweigert-Recksiek*
Affiliation:
Technical University of Munich, Germany
U. Lindemann
Affiliation:
Technical University of Munich, Germany
*
*schweigert.recksiek@tum.de

Abstract

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Increasing complexity of products and design processes leads to intensive collaboration of different stakeholders in technical product development. This causes a demand for suitable methods of collaboration across department interfaces, as between design and simulation. The paper investigates typical barriers of collaboration at this interface and measures to overcome them. Methods of complexity management form links based on literature and empirical data from online surveys and interview studies. The framework uses a set of structural metrics to analyse collaboration networks systematically.

Keywords

structural complexitycommunicationprocess improvementcollaborationdesign management

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Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference , Volume 1 , May 2020 , pp. 727 - 736
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