在市場競爭激烈的條件下，產品日趨複雜、生命週期逐漸縮短，促使協同成為企業取得產品開發競爭優勢的策略性機制。協同設計的基礎為設計鏈上下游廠商於設計階段的早期投入，由於設計活動之資訊高度關聯互動為產品開發的本質，因此如何規劃早期參與廠商的設計群組為此機制能否成功的重要因素。
過去文獻研究指出，設計架構矩陣（Design Structure Matrix, DSM）具有清楚表達流程工作關聯、有效率地協助流程分析與改善的效益，可作為同步流程及團隊設計之規劃工具。雖然DSM的量化演算及其應用分析已被探討，但對於如何有系統地獲取量化設計架構矩陣乃至協同設計群組分析的整體架構則較缺乏相關研究。
本研究以企業進行協同設計的需求目標為分析出發點，對設計鏈參與廠商的設計活動進行互動關聯量化分析，進而作為應用DSM進行協同群組規劃分析之輸入，再藉由群集分析法獲得群組規劃方案，將整體設計活動視為一系統，並以系統模擬獲得設計遞迴收斂時間，作為群組規劃之效益評估。經整合上述步驟及相關演算法，可建構出系統化的協同設計群組規劃分析架構，作為企業進行設計鏈重整時，規劃協同設計團隊之參考。
為驗證所提出之分析架構的可行性，本研究以一已推動協同設計的產品專案為例。應用分析架構進行該產品設計之協同團隊組成分析，比較分析結果與實務案例群組規劃的差異，並提供時間績效分析結果予個案公司進行協同設計群組之重整決策參考。分析結果所呈現之設計群組方案符合個案公司在設計鏈成員參與協同設計之組成要求，並提供28.7％的協同時間績效予決策人員進行設計鏈管理的依據。驗證結果顯示本研究所提出之分析模式可作為該企業未來執行設計鏈重整時，進行協同設計團隊規劃的分析方法，以提供協同設計團隊組成之參考。

Under the conditions of globally growing intense competition, such as decreasing product life cycle and increasingly complex architecture or functions of product, collaborative design has been deemed as a strategic approach to earn competitiveness of enterprises in product development (PD). This strategic approach is based on the involvement of design chain members during early design stages. Through lead time reduction of PD is commonly known as the main subject of collaborative design, there is a lack of framework to cast design groups during early involvement for time reduction.
Previous research has shown that Design Structure Matrix (DSM) as an effective approach to cope with the complex information flow. Using DSM to present concurrent process or product architecture can provide the advantage of pictorial simplification for analyzer. While studies had discussed some applications of DSM, but using this tool to deal with casting design groups in the mechanism of collaborative design has not been investigated yet.
The main goal of this research is to develop a framework that provides enterprises a process to plan collaborative design groups during early involvement for the reduction of lead time. Due to the nature of PD, DSM is applied to analyze the highly complex information flow within design tasks. The framework uses QFDs to transfer collaborative objective into requirements of design tasks which realizes and maintains the constructions of customer oriented process for further design chain integration. The DSM numbering methodology is used to systematically evaluate the interaction strength between design tasks.
A case study was used to validate the framework. Results of the analysis showed that the framework not only provided as a solution to fulfill the demand of collaboration in casting design groups. The case illustrates an estimation of 28.7% lead time reduction as a decision basis for design chain management. The framework is shown to cast and determine design groups while conducting design chain reformation in order to meet the collaborative objects in the case study.

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