Zouggar, S.Zolghadri, M.Girard, P.Rajkumar RoyEssam Shehab2009-10-062009-10-0620092009-03-31Zouggar S, Zolghadri M, Girard P. (2009) Modelling product and partners network architectures to identify hidden dependencies. Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Design Conference – Competitive Design, Cranfield University, 30-31 March 2009, pp. 32978-0-9557436-4-1http://hdl.handle.net/1826/3780Organised by: Cranfield UniversityThis paper explores mutual dependencies between partners of a New Product Design (NPD) project during the realization phase. It highlights bidirectional influences between components and partners. Linking product and network architectures is achieved through gBOMO (generalised Bill Of Materials and Operations) that allows expressing product components use and partners interventions in the network. We develop an approach to achieve building Dependency strength matrix. Analysing this matrix reveals obvious and hidden dependencies between partners which should be anticipated in early stages of the NPD project. The approach is illustrated through its application on an engine.enCopyright: Cranfield University 2009Partners networkProduct architectureLogical dependenciesNPD projectConference paper