ABSTRACT Strategic relationships with key suppliers are required for sustaining growth and creating competitive product development advantage. Managing key partners and suppliers who have a significant role in the design of their product’s major subsystems, and the increased risk that they introduce into the product development process is a key activity that is crucial to their successful integration. The common challenges faced by product integrators and suppliers during concurrent product development highlight the need for framework that allows integrators and suppliers to effectively design systems and subsystems concurrently and robustly. In this work, metrics are developed to quantitatively assess risk from supplier interactions. This is accomplished by quantifying the relative importance, the degree of customisation and the degree of coupling at the level of the engineering metrics, of the individual supplier subsystems and at the project-level. With these metrics, Intra-Supplier, Inter-Supplier and Inter-Projects risks can be assessed. The detailed development of these metrics, as well as their application to the development of a monochrome multi-functional printer to demonstrate the utility of the assessment framework is presented in this paper.

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在整个供应链中实现稳健的并行产品开发：风险评估框架

摘要 与主要供应商的战略关系是维持增长和创造有竞争力的产品开发优势所必需的。管理在其产品主要子系统设计中发挥重要作用的关键合作伙伴和供应商，以及他们在产品开发过程中引入的风险增加，是​​对其成功集成至关重要的关键活动。产品集成商和供应商在并行产品开发过程中面临的共同挑战凸显了对框架的需求，该框架允许集成商和供应商同时且稳健地有效设计系统和子系统。在这项工作中，开发了指标来定量评估供应商互动的风险。这是通过量化相对重要性来实现的，在工程度量级别、各个供应商子系统和项目级别的定制程度和耦合程度。通过这些指标，可以评估供应商内部、供应商间和项目间风险。本文介绍了这些指标的详细发展，以及它们在单色多功能打印机开发中的应用，以展示评估框架的实用性。