Viewpoints in co-design: a field study in concurrent engineering

TL;DR

This study investigates how different stakeholder viewpoints are used and integrated during co-design meetings in concurrent engineering, highlighting the dynamics and cooperation modes involved.

Contribution

It characterizes stakeholder viewpoints, their confrontation dynamics, and the cooperative modes that facilitate integration in co-design processes.

Findings

Identifies three types of viewpoints: prescribed, discipline-specific, and integrated.

Analyzes how viewpoints are confronted and negotiated during meetings.

Highlights cooperative modes enabling viewpoint integration.

Abstract

We present a field study aimed at analysing the use of viewpoints in co-design meetings. A viewpoint is a representation characterised by a certain combination of constraints. Three types of viewpoints are distinguished: prescribed viewpoint, discipline-specific viewpoint and integrated viewpoint. The contribution of our work consists in characterising the viewpoints of various stakeholders involved in co-design ("design office" disciplines, and production and maintenance disciplines), the dynamics of viewpoints confrontation and the cooperative modes that enable these different viewpoints to be integrated.