Engineering design often involves a very complex set of relationships among a large number of coupled problems. It is this complex coupling that leads to iteration among the various engineering tasks in a large project. The design structure matrix (DSM) is useful in identifying where iteration...

This paper presents a model describing sequential iteration, one of the fundamental solution processes experienced in complex engineering design projects. The model is based upon the design structure matrix representation and assumes that each individual design activity is of deterministic...

Cover title. "An earlier form of this paper was presented at the 1995 ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology."

"February 1995 [i.e. 1993]. -- Revised May 1995." "Forthcoming, IEEE transactions on engineering management." Title of original version: Evaluating communications in product development organizations, by Mark D. Morelli and Steven D. Eppinger.