Title
A Coordinate Optimization Approach for Concurrent Design
Abstract
In concurrent design (CCD), multiple design teams execute their tasks simultaneously and then exchange information to update their designs. The process then iterates until the termination criterion is met. When properly controlled and executed, CCD can be an effective method to shorten the time in product development for complex and large-scale projects thanks to its parallel nature. In this note, we propose a coordinate optimization framework to model and control team coordination through information sharing in CCD. It can be shown that under a certain convexity assumption, CCD converges to a globally optimal design if the information sharing intensity is smaller than a certain threshold. Numerical experiments substantiate the theoretical results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/tac.2018.2872196
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Keywords
Field
DocType
Charge coupled devices,Optimization,Linear programming,Convergence,Task analysis,Elevators,Information management
Convergence (routing),Information management,Mathematical optimization,Convexity,Concurrent engineering,Optimal design,Linear programming,Information sharing,Mathematics,New product development
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
7
0018-9286
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yijie Peng13212.59
Edward Huang2647.87
Jie Xu38111.71
Zhongshun Shi4197.48
Chun-Hung Chen5216.85