Applying the design structure matrix to system decomposition and integration problems: a review and new directions

By Tyson R. Browning. IEEE Trans. Engineering Management, 2001

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Mechanical Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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A review of function modeling: Approaches and applications (2008, methodology): “The approach based on the design structure matrix (Browing, 2001) and the methodology of AD (Suh, 1990) can be cited in this regard. Suh (1990) suggests a method for the elimination of the “spaghetti” code by identification of a logical structure.”
Toward a Product System Modularity Construct: Literature Review and Reconceptualization (2007, background): “group of designers (see [125] and [15]), eventually working in”
New modularity indices for modularity assessment and clustering of product architecture (2017, methodology): “because matrix-based approaches such as the DSM are useful to visualise the interactions between elements in a system architecture (Steward 1981; Browning 2001; Eppinger and Browning 2012).”
Survey of modeling and optimization strategies to solve high-dimensional design problems with computationally-expensive black-box functions (2010, methodology): “Some reviews pertaining to the decomposition can be found in the literature (Browning 2001; Li 2009; Papalambros 1995; Papalambros and Michelena 1997, 2000).”
A survey of variability modeling in industrial practice (2013, background): “The open-text responses revealed even more notations, including Design Structure Matrix [8] and CVL [12], a recent proposal for OMG’s upcoming Common Variability Language standard.”
Extensions to the design structure matrix for the description of multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization processes (2012, methodology): “While some DSMs show a sequence by ordering the components along the diagonal of the matrix (Browning 2001), we require more flexibility in the ordering because of the selection, iteration, and parallel computing structures present in MDO architectures.”
Complex Concurrent Engineering and the Design Structure Matrix Method (2003, neutral): “of DSM models and their application to various levels of abstraction [8].”
A simulation-based process model for managing complex design projects (2005, methodology): “Some researchers have used the DSM framework to design iteration modeling to extend its information-based structuring analysis to schedule analysis.”
Comparing Three Different Modularity Methods (2003, methodology): “For more about the component based DSM method, refer to [19].”
Toward New-Generation Intelligent Manufacturing (2018, background): “With the intelligent manufacturing cloud and the Industrial Internet, integration, sharing, collaboration, and optimization can be achieved among enterprises—result-ing in horizontal integration [69–72].”
Multidisciplinary design optimization: A survey of architectures (2013, positive): “As the name suggests, the XDSM was based on the design structure matrix (DSM) [86] [87], a common diagram in systems engineering that is used to visualize the interconnections among components of a complex system.”
Product architecture assessment: a tool to link product, process, and supply chain design decisions (2005, background): “Derivatives of the design structure matrix list the design tasks that correspond to the components in the first column and first row (Browning, 2001).”
Using dependency models to manage complex software architecture (2005, methodology): “Clustering has been used for architectural decomposition [13], and to optimize the organization of product development teams [14][15][22].”
The evolution, challenges, and future of knowledge representation in product design systems (2013, background): “Browning [243] reviews the application of DSMs in four areas: Component-based system architectures, people or teambased organizations, activity-based processes, and parameterbased design relationships, and concludes that DSMs ‘‘facilitate intelligent system decomposition and integration analysis’’.”
Design Structure Matrix Extensions and Innovations: A Survey and New Opportunities (2016, methodology): “Browning’s [12] 2001 review of the DSM literature (also in these TRANSACTIONS) cited about 100 DSM papers; there have been over 1000 since.”