DEVELOPING AN OBJECTIVE FORMULATION FOR MOTORCYCLE ARCHITECTURE
Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco CantaMESsa, Dorian Marjanovic, Frederico Rotini
Author: Chandra, Sushil
Series: ICED
Institution: Hero Motocorp Limited, India
Section: Product Modularisation, Product Architecture, Systems Engineering, Product Service Systems
Page(s): 125-134
ISBN: 978-1-904670-70-4
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
Though an objective formulation is available for building and IT architecture, no such formulation is available for architecture of automobiles, which characterizes the relationship between various elements of the design of a vehicle. This paper attempts to provide a mathematical formulation for engineering and visual architecture of motorcycles, define and quantify the complexity of architectural change to help the designer form the architecture strategy. This has been done by applying domain modeling concept to design data of motorcycles, scanning through the history of motorcycles in terms of architecture and applying the formulation to see how it helps the designers to understand the complexities of design changes. It concludes that major evolutions in motorcycles result in a drastic shift in architecture, visual architecture is a reflection of technological shifts and designers need to evolve architecture strategies for innovation.
Keywords: Product Architecture, Complexity, Product Structuring