A NEW METRIC APPROACH IN DESIGN PROCESS PLANNING

IntroductionIn today's competitive environment,it is nec-essary to deliver products on time and within bud-get. Unfortunately,design processes have beenplagued by the severe cost and schedule overruns.In the published papers,the reported averageschedule overrun ranges from 41 %to 2 5 8%,andcost overrun ranges from 97%to 1 5 1 %. Thisproblem persists in spite of the significantadvancesthat have been made in design technology over thelast two decades[1] . In many of the cases,thisproblem of ove…

A NEW METRIC APPROACH IN DESIGN PROCESS PLANNING

Poor plans of design project are often caused by the difficulties in realizing the underlying complexities and immeasurable characteristics in the deisgn process. To overcome this diffculty, a metric approach based on the tasks analysis model of task importance degree was proposed. The model suggests that importance of a task can be measured through the influence to the project incurred by the imaginary failure of the task, which can be measured through three parts: the critical degree of a task to the whole project, the direct cost by the failure of a task, and the indirect cost on the other tasks affected by the failure of the task. The Analytic Hierarchy Process approach was applied to determine the critical degree and Case based Reasoning idea was used in detecting the implied error in the task. As an application case, a review work planning was given and some conclusions were arrived at.