MAINTAINING CONSISTENCY ACROSS DESIGN DESCRIPTIONS IN ENGINEERING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Abstract The success of engineering product development depends on the effective communication design descriptions in formats that suit needs and capabilities all stakeholders involved delivery to market through-life support products. Configuration management is a core process ensure consistency technical data package, i.e., collection needed development, manufacture operation given product. Bills Materials (BoMs) are critical parts package because they act as integrators: adapting detailed particular downstream processes. ability reconfigure BoMs while maintaining internal (where BoM configurations complete compatible with each other) major challenge. In this paper, we introduce research exploring computational tools could engineers manipulating also package.