Abstract
When an engineering designer creates a product he has to consider
not only functionality, also life cycle concerns such as
manufacturing, service, and recycling must be taken into account.
The product structure plays a large role for the product's
performance and suitability for the life phases. However, a
product possesses not only a component structure but also various
organ structures which are superimposed on the component
structure. The organ structures carry behaviour and make the
product suited for its life phases.Our long-term research goal is
to develop a computer-based system that is capable of supporting
synthesis activities in engineering design, and thereby also
support handling of various organ structures. Such a system must
contain a product model, in which it is possible to describe and
manipulate both various organ structures and the component
structure.In this paper we focus on the relationships between
organ structures and the component structure. By an analysis of an
existing product it is shown that a component may contribute to
more than one organ. A set of organ structures is identified and
their influence on the component strucute is illustrated.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Engineering Design in Tampere |
| Place of Publication | Tampere |
| Publisher | Tampere University of Technology |
| Publication date | 1997 |
| Pages | 71-76 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |
| Event | International Conference on Engineering Design - Tampere, Finland Duration: 19 Aug 1997 → 21 Aug 1997 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Engineering Design |
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| Country | Finland |
| City | Tampere |
| Period | 19/08/1997 → 21/08/1997 |