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Process Model of Design and Construction Activities of a Building
Author(s) -
Kaneta Takashi,
Furusaka Shuzo,
Nagaoka Hiroaki,
Kimoto Kenji,
Okamoto Hiroaki
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
computer‐aided civil and infrastructure engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.773
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1467-8667
pISSN - 1093-9687
DOI - 10.1111/0885-9507.00129
Subject(s) - concurrent engineering , process (computing) , computer science , engineering design process , reachability , design structure matrix , systems engineering , software engineering , process management , industrial engineering , engineering , theoretical computer science , programming language , operations management , mechanical engineering , scheduling (production processes)
This article presents a new method to represent the design and construction process in a systematic way and to develop a support system of management for concurrent engineering. We define activities included in the total process of a standard project, make an adjacency matrix about the relationship among activities, and structure the activities with a reachability matrix. As a result, the process consisting of several complicated interactions among activities was found. These interactions can be classified into three patterns. We constructed a new process model by dividing the information flow into nine categories. Moreover, the effectiveness of the model as a tool for concurrent engineering is discussed from four points of view, and the rellationship between concurrent engineering and project objectives is analyzed. This article shows the results matrix calculation first and then describes its contribution to concurrent engineering.