Through-Lifecycle Whole-Design Optimisation Using Software Deployment Toolchains

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: James Gopsill (1,2), Ben Hicks (1)
Series: DESIGN
Institution: 1: University of Bristol, United Kingdom; 2: Centre for Modelling & Simulation, United Kingdom
Section: Systems Engineering and Design
Page(s): 1855-1864
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.188
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

Through-Lifecycle Whole Design Design Optimisation is widely considered one of the future approaches to solving design problems featuring prominently in Model-Based Systems Engineering, Set-Based Design and Digital Twins. Yet, design optimisation remains siloed optimising for design subsets. In this paper, we review academic literature and a series of case studies to uncover the challenges in achieving Through-Lifecycle Whole Design Design Optimisation. This is followed by action research that has investigated the application of software deployment toolchains to overcome the challenges.

Keywords: design optimisation, optimisation, model-based systems engineering (MBSE)