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Optimizing Overlap between Testing and Design in Engineering Product Development Processes

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To reduce product development time, upstream testing and downstream design processes are often overlapped. Existing studies do not recommend overlapping in situations where test results may have a significant effect on downstream redesign. However, this study identifies that, due to long procurement time and lengthy physical tests, companies may have no choice but to overlap these tasks to meet product delivery deadlines. This research investigates how a case study company manages these overlaps, and proposes a model to support the overlapping of testing and subsequent redesign phases during the development phases.

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  1. Department of Design, Development, Environment and Materials, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Khadija Tahera, Claudia M. Eckert & Chris F. Earl

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  1. , IT in Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, Bochum, 44801, Germany

    Michael Abramovici

  2. , Industrial Information Technology, Berlin Institute of Technology, Pascalstraße 8-9, Berlin, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Rainer Stark

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Tahera, K., Eckert, C.M., Earl, C.F. (2013). Optimizing Overlap between Testing and Design in Engineering Product Development Processes. In: Abramovici, M., Stark, R. (eds) Smart Product Engineering. Lecture Notes in Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30817-8_20

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