Interest in change propagation analysis for engineering design has increased rapidly since
the topic gained prominence in the late 1990s. Although there are now many approaches …

An approach to cope with changing market needs is to design engineering systems that can
be changed easily. However, in order to identify suitable candidates to be made more …

Engineering changes are unavoidable and occur throughout the lifecycle of products. Due to
the high interconnectivity of engineering products, a single change to one component …

Requirement changes play a significant role in the product design and development process
and constantly change due to the customers' expectations. This research seeks to develop …

Economic and technical changes force manufacturers to redesign and enhance their
operational systems. The implications of such changes within a complex system such as …

Change propagation is undesirable for a manufacturer when a change to one part or
component of the system requires additional changes throughout the manufacturing system …