Abstract:
Effective management of Piping Engineering Design is indispensable to
sustain the competitive advantage of any engineering company. Piping
Engineering Design Management consists of two sides - Design Product
Engineering Side & Design Process Side. Previous researches in this field in
different industries have found out many challenges or issues that need to be
taken care of in order to make an effective design management model. However,
those researches have only concentrated on some issues on a particular side of the
design management cycle while not addressing the others. So, the models that
have been built so far did not provide integrated management of all the identified
issues on both the sides of the design management cycle. But the future demands
an efficient design management model that caters to all the identified issues on
both the sides. This research takes the existing knowledge in this field a step
further by highlighting the minimal aspects of a much needed model catering to
all the identified issues plaguing the management of engineering design on both
the product & process sides of engineering design management, a step that the
previous studies have not uncovered.
