Cultivating the growth of complex engineered systems using emergent behaviours of engineering processes
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation develops a new type of model to analyze the design and construction of mega-systems, based on combining an organization network-model with an information-transfer link-model. Analysis of previous efforts within the Design Research and the System Engineering communities shows three major shortcomings: they assume efficient network connectivity, they assume static networks, and they assume loss-less data transfer. This dissertation overcomes these shortcomings by applying information theory, genetic computing, and chaos theory to product development within a large distributed organization. A new model type is developed and exercised to examine methods and techniques to improve mega-system design and construction, and then validated in a three-year $8B experiment implementing an enterprise product delivery process. Model development is based on data from US aerospace companies and programs spanning the last 30 years.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Byler, Eric Alan | |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. | |
| Primary advisor | Leifer, Larry J | |
| Thesis advisor | Leifer, Larry J | |
| Thesis advisor | Cutkosky, Mark R | |
| Thesis advisor | Prinz, F. B | |
| Advisor | Cutkosky, Mark R | |
| Advisor | Prinz, F. B |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Eric Alan Byler. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2014 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Eric Alan Byler
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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