Change and customisation in complex engineering domains
Claudia Eckert , P. John Clarkson and Winfried Zanker
I found the paper very valuable in terms of the precise description of the process within the selected engineering company. The case described is the Westland helicopter development. The paper is 21 pages and published in the highly accredited journal of Research in Engineering Design. Some terminology and observations from the industry are very new and I have not seen reports about them anywhere else. Actually I think the value in this paper is in translating and simplifying the complex issues of the engineering design world into a format and description which everyone can understand. I am especially facinated by the concepts of Emergent Change, Initiated change, change propagation and the difffernt strategy of dealing with change as mentioned in the paper: forward redesign and backward redesign. The paper is more a report of observation and do not come up with significant conclusions.
