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SUMMARY:Information maturity for uncertainty handling in collaborative eng
 ineering design - Khadidja Grebici - Engineering Design Centre
DTSTART:20080213T163000Z
DTEND:20080213T173000Z
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CONTACT:Julie Jupp
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of the seminar is to introduce some of my previous
  works that may be similar or complementary to EDC research themes such as
  process robustness. The context of this talk surrounds collaborative desi
 gn processes\, such as in Hydro energy and automotive design. In collabora
 tion\, the uncertainty and interdependency of information are the highligh
 ted characteristics. Indeed\, information may be from certain sources (suc
 h as standards)\; on the other hand information may be from uncertain sour
 ces (such as intermediate design results)\, or it may be a poorly validate
 d hypothesis that a designer uses in order to cope with complex design pro
 blems. Interdependency is a consequence of both the product and organizati
 onal complexity. Information uncertainty and interdependency causes inevit
 able risk of rework in the design process and thus causes delay and cost o
 verruns. The problem to be addressed is how to improve information exchang
 e and collaboration within design teams? The interest is to propose a coll
 aborative framework\, which includes: (1) information maturity model\, (2)
  unified framework to exchange formal and informal information (3) and mec
 hanisms to support the coordination of design activities. An implementatio
 n of a prototype PIQUANT is presented as an illustration of the different 
 proposed concepts. In order to facilitate the reuse of the framework speci
 fication\, a pattern-based approach has been proposed. The talk will end w
 ith the presentation of some previous research at the Innovative Design Ma
 nufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) within work package 2.1\, and highligh
 t some of the potential contributions and overlaps with EDC interests.
LOCATION:Meeting Rooms 1A+1B\, (off the Oatly Lab)\, 2nd Floor\, Engineeri
 ng Department
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