Towards Information Integrated Design Management

Towards Information Integrated Design Management: A study on the effects of inter-disciplinary information dependency on design in construction design projects

Kushwaha, Vishwajeet (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences)

Bakker, Hans (mentor)
Bosch-Rekveldt, Marian (mentor)
Kana, Austin (mentor)
Ramanujam, Gayatri (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

2019-08-23

This M.Sc. thesis is related to the use of Design Structure Matrix (DSM), a design process modeling technique, to model, analyze and improve design processes in Oil and Gas Construction Projects. DSM was used to model the design process of an engineering design section at an Oil and Gas Engineering Company using the information dependencies in the design process. The key effects of the information dependencies that were studied in this thesis include rework due to iterations, change propagation in the design process and need of design team collaboration. Further, the current design process was improved in terms of design schedule by proposing a new design process with reduced rework risk. Finally, ecommendations have been provided to improve the design process on the three aspects related to information dependencies in design process as mentioned above.

Design Structure Matrix
DSM
Design process
Design process modeling
Oil and Gas
construction projects
process model

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Student theses

master thesis

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