Apparatus and method for analyzing influence of design change in product development process

摘要

An impact of a change in design information is defined as a sum of an additional work amount that must be reworked in each design process referring to the design information. At a time of requesting an impact analysis of a design change, all processes referring to certain design information to be changed are extracted from a project monitoring unit. An impact of the change in the referred design information on each extracted process is calculated. With respect to design information created on the basis of the referred design information in each extracted process, the maturity levels at a time when the process makes a reference and at a time when the reference design information is changed are obtained. Then, the difference therebetween is determined as the work amount that may possibly become useless.