Yes / Product design decomposition and synthesis is a constant challenge with its
continuously increasing complexity at each level of abstraction. Currently, design
decomposition and synthesis analytical tasks are mostly accomplished via functional and
structural methods. These methods are useful in different phases of design process for product
definition and architecture but limited in a way that they tend to focus more on ‘what’ and less
on ‘how’ and vice versa. This paper combines a functional representation tool known as
System State Flow Diagram (a solution independent approach), a solution search tool referred
as Morphology Table, and Design Structure Matrix (mainly a solution dependent tool). The
proposed approach incorporates Multiple Domain Matrix (MDM) to integrate the knowledge
of both solution independent and dependent analyses. The approach is illustrated with a case
study of solar robot toy, followed by its limitations, future work and discussion.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/8140 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Uddin, Amad, Campean, Felician, Khan, M. Khurshid |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | © 2015 The Authors. Published under licence in IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering 65 (2014) by IOP Publishing Ltd. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI., CC-BY |
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