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Product development process can be viewed as a set of subprocesses with stronger interrelated dependency relationships. In this paper, the quantitative and qualitative dependency measures of serial and parallel product development processes are analyzed firstly. Based on the analysis results, the process net is developed where the processes are viewed as nodes and the logic constraints are viewed as verges of the net. The fuzzy-logic-based reasoning mechanism is developed to reason the dependency relations between development processes in the case that there is no sufficient quantitative information or the information is fuzzy and imprecise. The results show that the proposed method can improve the reasoning efficiency, reduce the cost and complexity degree of process improvement, and make a fast response to the dynamic development environment.
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Gu, YK., Huang, HZ., Wu, WD., Liu, CS. (2005). The Fuzzy-Logic-Based Reasoning Mechanism for Product Development Process. In: Wang, L., Jin, Y. (eds) Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. FSKD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11540007_112
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