This thesis focuses on the new product development (NPD) process and the organizational structure which supports the process. The expected payoff method is borrowed from economic theory and is modified to be able to quantitatively evaluate processes. The method is used to evaluate and compare sequential and concurrent engineering processes. The method is also used to evaluate different organizational structures that support NPD processes. Thus, the relationship between process effectiveness and organizational structure is investigated. Study results are compared with observations of actual NPD processes and organizational structures. A third part of this thesis develops an analysis technique for the study of the dynamic task coupling which takes place in concurrent engineering. The ability to determine a dynamic ordering of tasks is compared to the static ordering given by the Design Structure Matrix method.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.84275 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Kong, Linghua, 1963- |
| Contributors | Thomson, Vince (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Mechanical Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002085472, proquestno: AAINQ98294, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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