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Modeling systems of objectives in engineering design practice
Albers, Albert; Klingler, Simon; Ebel, Bjoern
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Year:
2013
Editor:
Udo Lindemann, Srinivasan V, Yong Se Kim, Sang Won Lee, John Clarkson, Gaetano Cascini
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Series:
ICED
Institution:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Page(s):
379-388
ISBN:
978-1-904670-44-5
ISSN:
2220-4334
Abstract:
Objectives are central elements of product development processes. The multitude of objectives forms a system of objectives, which is characterized by a high complexity and dynamic. In engineering design practice, modeling systems of objectives is a challenging task the designers are confronted with. The research presented in this paper focuses on modeling systems of objectives from a designer’s perspective which means that user-friendliness and acceptance of the approach is a central aspect. Based on a literature review, we deduce a lean methodology for modeling systems of objectives and realize an implementation of the approach within an intuitive mind-mapping software-tool. The results of an application in engineering design practice imply that the approach is user-friendly and mainly accepted by designers in practice; the performance however has to be further improved.
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