URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=4CM70&collegejaar=2025&taal=enOmschrijving
This is a project-based course based on an industry (motivated) case problem. Cases may concern a production machine, a measurement device, an infra object, a vehicle, or an other technical system that is being developed. Groups of students work on different parts and disciplinary aspects of the case system, possibly at different abstraction levels and product development stages. Aim is to build DSMs that provide insight in the system architecture of the design and its accompanying realization system, , with particular focus on the interfaces and the modularization. .The student groups have to decide which types of DSMs and which system decompositions are used to build the DSMs. Interactions in the DSMs are to be determined from available (possibly incomplete) design documentation, specifications, requirements, etcetera, as well as from interviews with engineers (with limited time budgets). Through the use of a clustering algorithm the ordering of the matrix elements may be permuted to distinguish modules and bus clusters. By means of a sequencing algorithm design and realization activities may be sequenced to minimize feedback interactions.
The student groups seek for appropriate DSM methods, algorithms and tools available from the open literature and internet. Also some software will be provided. The main insights obtained from the DSM analysis, the documentation of the various interactions, and the tooling used are to be presented to the industry client. A workshop about the DSM modelling techniques during the first two weeks helps the groups to get going with their projects.
Doelstellingen
After successful completion of the course the student- has basic knowledge of selected systems engineering concepts, the DSM and related concepts for modeling and design of system architecture in particular
- is able to apply design structure matrix (DSM) methods to visualize and analyse dependency complexity present in the design and realization of multidisciplinary engineering systems integrating multiple modules and components.