Identifying and Comparing Subproblems in Factory Design Processes

dc.contributor.advisorHerrmann, Jeffrey Wen_US
dc.contributor.authorKanagat, Pranayen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSystems Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-17T06:25:47Z
dc.date.available2018-07-17T06:25:47Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractWhen a design team faces a problem of designing a complex system, they are required to make several decisions. Because such design problems are difficult to solve all at once, teams often decompose the design problem into several smaller subproblems. This thesis discusses the results of a study designed to understand how design teams decompose a factory redesign problem into sets of related subproblems and compare the subproblems obtained for each design team. This exploratory study analyzed the design activities of six teams of professionals and used clustering to group the variables that the design teams considered. It was found that the design teams used different decomposition strategies and different subproblems, but they more often considered subproblems with design variables of the same type, and some teams followed a top-down design process.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M26Q1SM2P
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/21034
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledOperations researchen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledDesignen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledClusteringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDecision Makingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFactory Designen_US
dc.titleIdentifying and Comparing Subproblems in Factory Design Processesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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