| dc.description.abstract | When process technology continues to progress, demands of personal computer have been almost fully fulfilled, markets are becoming more saturated, and there is a trend for decline in this industry. Personal computers have fulfilled many possible demands no matter in all kinds of functions and the scales of its performance. On the other hands, industrial computers stress on reliability and are highly customized, as a result, industrial computer firms kept a relative high gross margin.
Still as a role of computer, industrial computer further has to work in some much extremer environments and to fulfill functions of different performance and robustness. To ensure robustness, firms usually take much of time testing, which lead to more development time. At the same time, industrial computer has to be working within a long period and has a long product life cycle. Under highly customization and long life cycle, it is not easy to preserve the knowledge of product architecture and reasons for decision made. So, deriving modules and platforms for generations for product can be a possible solution.
Design Structure Matrix (DSM) is a simple way to clearly representing a system. By sequencing or clustering subsystems it clearly represent the dependencies between subsystems in a two dimension matrix. And it is apt to developing modules or platforms for complex products. This thesis first discusses the context for using DSM, and demonstrates the proper steps to incorporate DSM to derive appropriate modules and plat forms regarding robustness. Lastly, we take industrial PC as a case for demonstration and analysis and then conclude. | en_US |