Conceptual model of a web-based design performance measurement and management system

This paper presents a conceptual model for a web-based product design development performance measurement and management system for collaborative product design and development. It allows all involved design participants to measure work performance at any time during the product development process. The model was developed from role-based task analysis and industrial surveys. Universal Modelling Language (UML) method was used to model the system. It has been evaluated by a variety of users for implementing in a web-based prototype software system for measuring design aspects throughout the whole product design development process