A Model-Based Approach to Analyze Change Propagation and Impact in Product-Production-CoDesign

Engineering changes are omnipresent in the product development process and take up an enormous amount of resources. One reason that makes engineering changes resource-intensive is the high system complexity. The interface between product development and production system development is particularly complex. Although model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is considered a promising approach to address these challenges, there is a lack of methods that support the analysis of engineering changes in integrated product-production system development. This paper presents a further developed methodology that supports a holistic analysis and modeling of engineering changes using the example of a production system of an automotive-supplier.