This research project coins the term “QoPDI” that stands for the Quality of Preliminary Design Information.

Here you can find a basic example to easily find out what this is all about.

By participating in the research study, you can make a valuable contribution to the NZ engineering sector, you can find out about best practices and support our research project/Jens’ PhD.

We understand that commercial sensitivity is crucial. Please refer to this page for more information.

Introduction

• Early in a design project many important issues are unknown or only known imprecisely.
• Many design modelling tools (for example CAD, PLM,…) require parameter values to be entered in a precise manner even if the quality of the information is known to be poor.
• This can cause problems in which down-stream consumers of the information waste effort on tasks that are not yet justified.
• If the status of the information – the Quality of Preliminary Design Information            – can be made more explicit, this could help to avoid such problems, potentially leading to reduced rework and to better designs.

Approach

• A Literature Review is currently carried out in order to identify relevant keywords that shall help to optimize communication by being able to use a shared vocabulary

• By interviewing NZ practitioners, we are seeking insights into the real-world issues concerning this topic and want to learn about the issues the companies are facing

• The results are joined to deduct a scheme for eliciting, expressing and thereby making
  explicit which shall inform practitioners’ decisions in using Advanced Design Information in their task selection and effort allocation processes.

• This results in a potential for reduced rework and better designs

• A demonstrator will be used to show the potential