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Supporting the Early Stages of Product Design by Function-Based Tools
Koch, M.; Meerkamm, H.
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2002
Editor:
Marjanovic D.
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Design information systems & knowledge management
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367-372
Abstract:
The state-of-the-art in the early stages of design is a situation, where practically no computer-supported tools for a designer’s work exist. To get rid of this problem and to make decisions comprehensible and clear to other collaborating designers, a tool called “Engineering Workbench mfk” has been developed at our institute. To support especially the early stages of design, the tool “FunctionStructureModeller” was created as a further module for this extensive workbench. In the paper on the one hand the methodical approaches to this software-tool will be presented. On the other hand the “FunctionStructureModeller” will be introduced.
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