Suitable methods for process modeling and process optimization
Year: 2013
Editor: Udo Lindemann, Srinivasan V, Yong Se Kim, Sang Won Lee, John Clarkson, Gaetano Cascini
Author: Schabacker, Michael; Szélig, Nikoletta; Vajna, Sándor
Series: ICED
Institution: Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Page(s): 429-438
ISBN: 978-1-904670-44-5
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
The current situation in product development is characterized by increasingly dynamic and complex tasks. The development of a product is not a linear process, continuously guided by well-defined steps to the target. Few products are newly designed; most are adaptations, modifications, or variant designs. However, there is a common requirement for each case when the processes have to be deposited for the first time in a process management tool: that it must be done quickly and relatively easily. Various modeling techniques and languages exist: among them network diagrams (e.g. flowchart representation as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)), container modeling and Design Structure Matrix (DSM). These process modeling methods are brought together into the Tri-Process-Modeling-Tool described in this paper. The benefit of each process modeling method is shown, together with the main tasks associated with it. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the application of those different process modeling methods is also useful for process optimization.
Keywords: Design process, Optimization, Process modeling, Simultaneous Engineering, Degree of parallelization