A smart performance measurement approach for collaborative design in Industry 4.0

Abstract

Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, focuses on intelligent and smart manufacturing. This paper investigates a smart Design Performance Measurement (DPM) approach, which can be utilised to support performance measurement implementation during a collaborative design process. Firstly, we develop a smart product design framework with Industry 4.0 enabling technologies to support key design stages in an iterative fashion. Secondly, based on this framework, we propose a smart design performance measurement approach to potentially support a smart product design project management via its performance management. Thirdly, we adapt our existing DPM, for a traditional design environment into a smart design environment at its early stage to test its feasibility. This approach features integration of a flexible performance measurement setup, a multi-feedback DPM mechanism and a multiple DPM results presentation which allows the DPM approach to produce flexible and customised operations by connecting DPM with the stage-based design objectives, balancing DPM feedbacks through interoperability between collaborative design team members and providing real-time DPM results to guide design activities. An empirical industrial evaluation case study indicates that the proposed DPM approach can support design team members in improving their collaborative design performance.

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ORCID for Yuanyuan Yin: orcid.org/0000-0002-2109-0135

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