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Complex Product Architecture Analysis using an Integrated Approach

Uddin, Amad
Khan, M. Khurshid
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2014
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© 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.
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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.
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Uddin A, Campean IF and Khan MK (2014) Complex Product Architecture Analysis using an Integrated Approach. 27th International Conference on CADCAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future 2014. IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol 65, Conference 1, pp 1-10.
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