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RISRevisiting Flexibility in Design: An Analysis of the Impact of Implementation Uncertainty on the Value of Real Options
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Flexible design, often embodied as Real Options, has proven valuable in sustaining system performance under operational uncertainty. By building “options,” decision-makers buy the right, but not the obligation, to upgrade ...
Requirements, Objectives, Both, or Neither: How to Formulate Complex Design Problems for Innovation Contests
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Technical organizations increasingly rely on innovation contests to find novel ideas for designing complex systems. These activities involve outsiders in the early stages of the design process, leading to ground-breaking ...
Flexibility “of” Versus “in” Systems: A Complementary Strategy for Designing Fleet-Based Systems for Uncertainty
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Complex systems must sustain value over extended lifetimes, often in the face of significant uncertainty. Flexibility “in” systems have been shown to be highly valuable for large monolithic systems (LMS). However, other ...
When Do Concurrent Design Facilities Need to Be Flexible? Understanding the Limits of Fit With Novel Problem Types
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Concurrent design facilities hold the promise of shorter design cycles with efficient cross-disciplinary integration. However, when an atypical design problem is encountered, the standard organization may be a poor fit to ...
Fit As a Diagnostic Tool: An Analytic Review of Approaches to Measure Correspondence Between Technical and Organizational Architectures
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Standardized design approaches such as those embodied by concurrent design facilities have many benefits, such as increased efficiency of the design process, but may also have hidden costs. Specifically, when their ...
The Dark Side of Modularity: How Decomposing Problems Can Increase System Complexity
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Decomposition is a dominant design strategy because it enables complex problems to be broken up into loosely coupled modules that are easier to manage and can be designed in parallel. However, contrary to widely held ...
So You Think Your System Is Complex?: Why and How Existing Complexity Measures Rarely Agree
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: In an increasingly interconnected &
Heuristics for Solver-Aware Systems Architecting: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The crowdsourcing literature has shown that domain experts are not always the best solvers for complex system design problems. Under certain conditions, novices and specialists in adjacent domains can provide novel solutions ...
Co-Evolution of Communication and System Performance in Engineering Systems Design: A Stochastic Network-Behavior Dynamics Model
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Engineering systems design is a dynamic socio-technical process where the social factors, such as interdisciplinary interactions, and technical factors, such as design interdependence and the design state, co-evolve. ...
Designing Representative Model Worlds to Study Socio-Technical Phenomena: A Case Study of Communication Patterns in Engineering Systems Design
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The engineering of complex systems, such as aircraft and spacecraft, involves large number of individuals within multiple organizations spanning multiple years. Since it is challenging to perform empirical studies directly ...