PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AS A KEY TASK WITHIN CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
DS 84: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2016 14th International Design Conference
Year: 2016
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad, Skec Stanko
Author: Richter, T.; Inkermann, D.; Vietor, T.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN PROCESSES
Page(s): 1337-1346
Abstract
Product architecture design is a key challenge of conceptualisation and has to be considered explicitly in each stage of concretisation. This paper introduces an integrated approach for product architecture design exploiting potentials of different existing methods from functional modelling to the composition of the physical product. Especially, apparently contradictory principles of functional integration and modularisation are considered collectively, to develop optimal product architectures for individual design tasks.
Keywords: product architecture, modularization, integration, conceptual design