5 FINAL COMMENTS AND FUTURE GOALS
We feel we have learned several important lessons in building our model. During our efforts we have worked with many engineers in the ship design community. Responses to our efforts have covered the full spectrum from strongly positive to strongly negative and the range between, but our efforts met with best success once we obtained a collaborative, highly visual boxes-and-arrows modeling tool as a tool for capturing the data we needed for DSM (and other types) of analysis. Another key to our efforts was our careful design of a regulated vocabulary that was used in our modeling workshops. Future goals of our efforts include: increasing activity data definition to build a reference library of process components, continuing to validate our model and data, exploring simulation and analysis capabilities, including risk and uncertainty. Finally, we look forward to employing the model in the real world planning and understanding a ship design.