Improving Project–Product Lifecycle Management with Model–Based Design Structure Matrix: A joint project management and systems engineering approach

TLDR

The study investigates how using the Design Structure Matrix within Model‑Based Systems Engineering can analyze and improve product‑project ensembles, and proposes future work on reflecting DSM process clustering back into the OPM model. The authors present a bidirectional transformation algorithm between a product‑project system model and its Model‑Based DSM, and use Object‑Process Methodology to analyze and characterize the relationships between the system model and the derived MDSM. An unmanned aerial vehicle case study demonstrates the semantics of and analogy between various types of relationships as they are reflected in both the OPM system model and the MDSM derived from it. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., Syst Eng 16.

Abstract

Abstract We investigate potential benefits of employing the Design Structure Matrix (DSM) in the context of Model–Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for the purposes of analyzing and improving the design of a product–project ensemble. Focusing on process DSM, we present an algorithm for a bidirectional transformation framework between a product–project system model and its corresponding Model–Based DSM (MDSM). Using Object–Process Methodology (OPM) as the underlying modeling language, we examine and characterize useful and insightful relationships between the system model and its MDSM. An unmanned aerial vehicle case study demonstrates the semantics of and analogy between various types of relationships as they are reflected in both the OPM system model and the MDSM derived from it. We conclude with further research direction on showing how clustering of DSM processes can be reflected back as an improvement of the OPM model. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Eng 16