6.3 Suspended Ceiling Design Process - Bilkent University

Besides adding extra attributes to DSM analysis, modifying the content
of DSM elements has also been used to create variations to basic DSM.
Hamer et al. (1999) have studied document interdependencies on the
design phase of one-of-a kind delivery process using a DSM that does
not conform to established component-, team-, activity-, and parameter-
based DSM classification. In the proposed method, each row and
column represented one document class and the rows and columns
were ordered identically. Reading across a row lists all the information
which is needed as an input to produce the document class in question.
Reading down a column outlines all the document classes that use the
document class in question (column) as input information. Unlike a
complete DSM analysis, the study did not aim at optimizing the
sequence in which the documents are produced, since the main aim of
the analysis was to obtain a picture of the document level
interdependencies.
Lockledge and Salustri (2001) have developed “The Design Process
Matrix” to model how functional systems relate to one another and to
physical components. The model is very similar to conventional DSMs,
but the authors used columns in the matrix for major components, and
rows for major functional systems and subsystems. Thus, elements of
the matrix represent interactions between a functional system and a
component. Like the document example mentioned above, the aim in
this study was not to prescribe a single process for engine design, but
to provide a map of the existing process.
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