Flexibility¶
Saleh, J. H., Mark, G., & Jordan, N. C. (2009). Flexibility: a multi-disciplinary literature review and a research agenda for designing flexible engineering systems. Journal of Engineering Design, 20(3), 307-323.
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Primes¶
- Design for Lifecycle Adaptability
- A common failure is optimizing the initial design at the cost of future adaptability, realizing too late that evolution is expensive, or over-designing for adaptability that is not needed during the system's actual lifecycle
This sourceMulti-disciplinary review establishing flexibility as a critical system attribute for coping with uncertainty and change, and that designing flexibility in carries up-front cost weighed against later adaptation value.
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Saleh et al. support that flexibility carries cost and performance penalties that must be weighed against its value, and that rigid or optimised designs risk obsolescence, but not the named failure modes.
“it is likely that flexibility can only be obtained through performance and/or cost penalties. Given the cost(s) of flexibility, it is important to ensure that the value of flexibility is worth the penalties.”
- A common failure is optimizing the initial design at the cost of future adaptability, realizing too late that evolution is expensive, or over-designing for adaptability that is not needed during the system's actual lifecycle
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- Platform Design
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