Comparing Systems Engineering and Project Success in Commercial-focused versus Government-focused Projects

This work looks at the relationship between systems engineering and project success industry lead in aerospace, agriculture, defense & security, energy and related areas. The projects included both commercial-focused and government-focused efforts. Differences were found in both the overall risk levels and the measures of success for the two groups. In addition, government-focused projects showed a notably larger number of significant relationships between system engineering processes and project success than the commercial-focused projects. The research notes that further investigation is warranted, in particular looking at individual industry sectors, exploring the impact of team dispersion, and developing a better understanding of interrelationships between the systems engineering processes. This type of analysis will help further our understanding of both the art and science of systems engineering

An Ahp Framework For Prioritizing Customer Requirements In Qfd: An Industrialized Housing Application

Construction of housing in the United States is highly decentralized. There is an increasing use of manufactured components and modules constructed off-site at a manufacturing facility and assembled at the building site. However, there has been little use of modem manufacturing processes and controls. In an effort to develop energy efficient, affordable industrialized housing, a total engineering design approach is needed. This study uses a concurrent engineering approach to examine the production of an essential component in industrialized housing, a manufactured exterior structural wall panel. In particular, we apply Quality Function Deployment to fully integrate the customer\u27s requirements. This paper focuses on the identification and prioritization of those customer requirements. We integrate the Analytic Hierarchy process with QFD to establish a framework for prioritizing customer requirements. © 1994 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC