Komplexitätsmanagement in der Produktentwicklung

Description

Complexity is one of the great challenges of our time. Therefore, especially in development, engineers must master the constantly increasing complexity in diverse domains in order to realize product and thus company success. For the appropriate modelling of the many different elements and relations of complex systems, cross-domain, integrative and thus holistic modelling approaches are required, which allow context-related, useful mathematical analysis as well as visualization possibilities in order to enable developers a multi-criteria evaluation of certain action alternatives. However, currently existing approaches are only suitable to a limited extent due to methodological deficits, their high modelling effort, limited analysis and visualization options, or their low support for multi-criteria evaluation.

Therefore, this thesis introduces a concept to support developers in holistic complexity management in product development by providing contextually appropriate methods for integrated modelling, analysis, visualization, and evaluation of complex systems for goal-oriented decision making. For effective and efficient application of the methodology, an IT tool is presented that supports developers in their holistic complexity management tasks.