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Structural Complexity Management
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Author : Udo Lindemann
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-09-24
Structural Complexity Management written by Udo Lindemann and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-24 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Product design is characterized by a steady increase in complexity. The main focus of this book is a structural approach on complexity management. This means, system structures are considered in order to address the challenge of complexity in all aspects of product design. Structures arise from the complex dependencies of system elements. Thus, the identification of system structures provides access to the understanding of system behavior in practical applications. The book presents a methodology that enables the analysis, control and optimization of complex structures, and the applicability of domain-spanning problems. The methodology allows significant improvements on handling system complexity by creating improved system understanding on the one hand and optimizing product design that is robust for system adaptations on the other hand. Developers can thereby enhance project coordination and improve communication between team members and as a result shorten development time. The practical application of the methodology is described by means of two detailed examples.
Complexity Management In Engineering Design A Primer
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Author : Maik Maurer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-02-21
Complexity Management In Engineering Design A Primer written by Maik Maurer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-21 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The treatise supports understanding the phenomena of complexity in engineering, distinguishes complexity from other challenges and presents an overview of definitions and applied approaches.The historical background of complexity management is explained by highlighting the important epochs, their key actors and their discoveries, findings and developments. Knowing about the appearance of early system awareness in ancient Greece, the creation of mechanical philosophy in the 17th century and the discovery of classic physics enables the reader to better comprehend modern system sciences and management approaches.A classification of complexity management approaches by research fields indicates current focus areas and starting points for future discussions. In a comprehensive map, the classification points out mutual overlaps between engineering disciplines in terms of similar complexity management approaches.Finally, the treatise introduces a generic complexity management framework, which is based on structural management approaches.
Managing Project Structural Complexity By Integrating Facility Management In Planning Designing And Execution Of High End Facility Upgrades
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Author : Audrey Marie Bascoul
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Managing Project Structural Complexity By Integrating Facility Management In Planning Designing And Execution Of High End Facility Upgrades written by Audrey Marie Bascoul and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Ensuring that a building consistently supports occupants in producing value is a global challenge. To tackle this challenge, the discipline of Facility Management (FM) emerged in the 1970s. FM became responsible for steering the building toward a constantly changing desired future state. Since then, buildings have become increasingly more complex. Despite the existence of FM, buildings still fail in terms of value delivery. Failure to meet customer requirements is waste. This motivated this research. Through review and analysis of the literature, the researcher classifies FM failures in five aspects: (1) building systems, (2) people, (3) tools and data, (4) processes, and (5) changes. To prevent those failures, researchers and practitioners have developed solutions. However, these solutions have not been able to reduce waste in facility delivery for at least three reasons. First, they fail to capitalize on FM knowledge, and thus miss the opportunity of learning from other completed facilities. Second, they do not address the Transformation-Flow-Value (TFV) views of FM. As a result, they focus on ensuring that building components function and omit value delivery to customers. Third, they do not acknowledge the complex nature of FM, which manifests itself at the organizational and at the project level. This leads to FM not being able to steer the building so that it meets customer expectations. This dissertation advocates that the late involvement of FM in project delivery contributes to waste and is manifested in a lack of awareness of structural complexity. Structural complexity is the condition of a system whose behavior emerges from the interactions of its parts. The burden of managing that complexity falls on FM during operations and maintenance of the completed facility. By not engaging FM strategically in project delivery, such complexity is not managed easily and the facility may fail to deliver the expected customer value. The use of the Design Structure Matrix (DSM) methodology, a matrix-based method to model structural complexity, and Hoshin Kanri, a Lean planning process used to deploy strategies in organizations, will help generate value to owners and occupants by enabling FM involvement in the planning, designing, and execution of facility upgrades and construction projects in general. To substantiate this argument, this research investigates the manifestation of structural complexity and its implications for FM at two levels. First, at the project level, it documents and analyzes two examples of high-end facilities that failed to deliver value to occupants. Both examples explore how the lack of management of structural complexity contributed to FM failure. The researcher uses DSM to gain insight into FM failure and uses the Lean Project Delivery System (LPDS)-Multi-Domain Matrix (MDM) framework, to make the interdependences between project elements and thus some aspects of complexity visual. Second, at the organizational level, this research documents how two large public organizations have integrated FM in project delivery. Furthermore, this research presents a novel model based on Hoshin Kanri, named Hoshin-for-Facilities, to support and enable FM integration. This model builds upon Lean Construction principles and methods, while acknowledging the complex nature of FM. By analyzing the case studies, the researcher identifies five aspects of structural complexity in projects involving high-end facilities: (1) customer complexity, (2) organizational complexity, (3) product complexity, (4) process complexity, and (5) market complexity. Poor FM integration in project delivery has a compounding effect with product and process complexity. At the project level, DSM is fit for modeling structural complexity. Its early use on projects could help avoid negative design iteration (process complexity) and increase transparency in design decision making (product complexity). The LPDS-MDM framework offers a holistic approach to manage project structural complexity. At the organizational level, Hoshin-for-Facilities seems promising for engaging FM in project delivery. This research contributes to knowledge by augmenting the literature on FM at its intersection with D&C, revealing by using DSM how structural complexity manifests itself in projects, formulating the implications thereof for facility delivery, and proposing Hoshin-For-Facilities to enable strategic FM integration in project delivery. This dissertation shows how project structural complexity can be managed by integrating FM in project delivery. This research helps ensure that facilities support organizations’ business objectives. It is targeted to business owners of high-end facilities, i.e., facilities that house sophisticated systems and/or equipment, whose performance is critical for the organization to meet its business objectives. Future research can deepen understanding of how the language used during project delivery contributes to complexity and then explore how project teams can leverage those findings (if any) to manage complexity.
Structural Complexity I
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Author : Jose L. Balcazar
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Structural Complexity I written by Jose L. Balcazar and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Computers categories.
In the six years since the first edition of this book was published, the field of Structural Complexity has grown quite a bit. However, we are keeping this volume at the same basic level that it had in the first edition, and the only new result incorporated as an appendix is the closure under complementation of nondeterministic space classes, which in the previous edition was posed as an open problem. This result was already included in our Volume II, but we feel that due to the basic nature of the result, it belongs to this volume. There are of course other important results obtained during these last six years. However, as they belong to new areas opened in the field they are outside the scope of this fundamental volume. Other changes in this second edition are the update of some Bibliograph ical Remarks and references, correction of many mistakes and typos, and a renumbering of the definitions and results. Experience has shown us that this new numbering is a lot more friendly, and several readers have confirmed this opinion. For the sake of the reader of Volume II, where all references to Volume I follow the old numbering, we have included here a table indicating the new number corresponding to each of the old ones.
Product Complexity Management Enabled By A Model Based Approach
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Author : Zhenchao Hu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Product Complexity Management Enabled By A Model Based Approach written by Zhenchao Hu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
As contemporary engineered systems become more interdependent, there is a growing need to manage their system complexity. However, system complexity only exists as implicit and heterogeneous information. This situation causes difficulties to obtain and analyze system complexity. This manuscript illustrates a model-based approach to support system complexity management. The system complexity includes dynamic complexity and structural complexity in this manuscript. The proposed approach includes complexity modeling and complexity analysis. As for complexity modeling, a graph-matrix hybrid complexity modeling approach is proposed to describe the dynamic and structure complexity information. The graph-based architecture models are developed by a unified meta-meta modeling approach. The connections among different architecture models are described by design structure matrix. As for complexity analysis, a general complexity metric provides dynamic and structural complexity values for the designer to evaluate the system. Besides, automatic ontology modeling is introduced to integrate complexity modeling and complexity analysis. Finally, a case study about aero-engine design is conducted. The complexity management processes of three different scenarios are compared in this case study. The comparison results demonstrate that the proposed approach is general and applicable to any engineered system and can support the trade-off between complex product design schemes.
Complexity Metrics In Engineering Design
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Author : Matthias Kreimeyer
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-07-16
Complexity Metrics In Engineering Design written by Matthias Kreimeyer and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-16 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book presents the results of several years’ research work on how to characterize complexity in engineering design with a specific regard to dependency modeling. The 52 complexity metrics that are presented show different facets of how complexity takes shape in design processes. The metrics are supported by a modeling method and a measurement framework to employ the metrics in a goal-oriented manner. The detailed description of all involved metrics and models makes it possible to apply the analysis approach to common process modeling methodologies. Three case studies from automotive process management illustrate the application to facilitate the transfer to other cases in an industrial context. The comprehensive appendix supplies additional details and checklists for structural analysis to generate a complete overview of current means of structural analysis.
Complexity Management In Supply Chains
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Author : Thorsten Blecker
language : en
Publisher: Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2006
Complexity Management In Supply Chains written by Thorsten Blecker and has been published by Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business logistics categories.
Supply chains are faced with a rising complexity with manifold effects. Because of the strong link between a supply chain's complexity and its efficiency, supply chain complexity management becomes a major challenge of today's business management. Therefore logistics and the supply chain management can play a significant role in mastering and managing complexity. The new book, edited by Thorsten Blecker and Wolfgang Kersten, is exemplifying the current progress in complexity management. Separate chapters are dedicated to clarify complexity management in transportation, networks and supply chains. It offers important insights of global and flexible network modelling to manage complexity, complexity in supply chains - developing human resource strategy, performance measurement of green supply chain management, complexity in transportation by means of containers and air-cargos. The volume, written by well-known experts of supply chain management from all over the world, shows applicable solutions, practical examples and use cases to illustrate complexity management and its application in logistics and supply chain management. It presents the central perspectives for a modern complexity management in supply chains. Therefore the book offers a fundamental understanding for workable complexity management concept their implementation to practitioners. The book offers fundamental insights into actual problems of an general complexity management concept and their implementation to practitioners in industry, logistics, management, service sector, research and apprenticeship. In addition to this it gives a valuable insight to the status of complexity management also for lecturers and students.
Complexity Management
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Author : Michael Marti
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-12-28
Complexity Management written by Michael Marti and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Michael Marti presents a complexity management model that is based on the reasoning that product architecture determines to a considerable extent how external complexity is translated into physical products. The model demonstrates a procedure to optimize a product’s architecture and is applied to several industrial products.
Structural Complexity
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Author : José Luis Balcázar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Structural Complexity written by José Luis Balcázar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Complejidad computacional categories.
Structural Complexity And Its Implications For Design Of Cyber Physical Systems
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Author : Kaushik Sinha (Ph. D.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Structural Complexity And Its Implications For Design Of Cyber Physical Systems written by Kaushik Sinha (Ph. D.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Most modern era software-enabled, electro-mechanical systems are becoming more complex as we demand more performance and better lifecycle properties (e.g. robustness) from them. As a consequence system development projects are becoming increasingly challenging and are falling behind in terms of schedule and cost performance. The complexity of technical systems depends on the quantity of different elements and their connectivity, i.e., complexity means a measurable system characteristic. There are three main dimensions of complexity that emerged in the context of system design and development: (1) Structural Complexity; (2) Dynamic Complexity and (3) Organizational Complexity. Structural complexity pertains to the underlying system architecture or more generally, the enabling infrastructure. Dynamic complexity refers to the complexity of the system behavior or process running on the underlying infrastructure. Organizational Complexity relates to the system development process and the organizational structure of the development team. This dissertation primarily focuses on developing a theoretical framework for structural complexity quantification of engineered systems and subsequently a complexity-based design paradigm of interconnected, complex engineered system. There are four distinct thematic parts in this dissertation: (i) theoretical development of the proposed structural complexity metric, including the metric's qualification as a valid complexity measure based on its mathematical properties; (ii) empirical validation of the proposed complexity metric based on simple experiments and application of the methodology to compute structural complexity of complex engineered systems like jet engines and advanced printing systems; (iii) systemic implications from a complexity management standpoint, including introduction of complexity budgeting for system development and linking actual complexity to human perception of complexity through the notion of complicatedness, and (iv) extension of the proposed metric to system-of-systems and a computational framework for measuring dynamic complexity. The topological complexity metric, C3 is shown to clearly distinguish between system architectural regimes (e.g., centralized, hierarchical, transitional and distributed). The ball and stick experiment empirically establishes the super-linear relationship between structural complexity (X) and development effort (Y) with exponent, b=1.48.