Information model for engineering change management

Authors

Clifford L. Panokarren, Florida International University

Document Type

Thesis

Degree

Master of Science (MS)

Major/Program

Industrial and Systems Engineering

First Advisor's Name

Chin-Sheng Chen

First Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Chair

Second Advisor's Name

Joe Chow

Third Advisor's Name

Shih-Ming Lee

Date of Defense

4-2-2004

Abstract

Managing engineering changes is a critical task for organizations to remain competitive. In a manufacturing organization there are innumerable engineering change requests. This thesis is focused on the development of an information model that defines the engineering change process.

This research developed an activity model in IDEF0, an object model in IDEF1X and a dynamic model using state diagrams. The activity model captures the business process for executing an engineering change in terms of its constituting activities and sub-activities. The object model defines each object and its attributes identified in the activity model. The dynamic model captures the status change of each object in the engineering change process. This study concludes with a summary, implementation issues and future work that can be done in the direction of implementing a system based \ on the information model developed.

Identifier

FI15103080

Recommended Citation

Panokarren, Clifford L., "Information model for engineering change management" (2004). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3949.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3949