Abstract
In order to achieve the efficient design process, various infrastructures and tools have been developed and provided with the advanced IT technology. Any of them, however, cannot effectively support managers making appropriate decisions for process design. In order to achieve the effective support, a method to quantitatively predict the designed process should be developed. Our simulation based approach (PMT: Process Management Too) can quantitatively analyze and predict the designed process performance with various performance measures, considering the process element and their characteristics, their behaviors and their influencing factors, and the structure formed by the elements and their static relationships. In this paper, PMT was applied to examine the process performance of the product based process and the functions based process regarding a forming dies design process as an example of actual application. In the examination, work processing capability and communication processing capability were focused. Through the examination of work processing capability, PMT analysis revealed the fragility of product based process and the tolerance of function based process to overload respectively. It also indicated how to allocate human resources to maximize the work processing capability. Furthermore, it precisely indicated where to allocate the specific types of labors in the function based process though the examination of communication processing capability.
