Using DSMs in functionally driven explorative design experiments – an automation approach
Paper in proceeding, 2022

Product architectures are often designed as evolutions or modifications of existing product platforms by adding new functionalities. However, there is still a limited ability to simultaneously modify the functions and the physical elements of a system (and the corresponding links between them). These relationships, which are usually static, limit the ability to discover new architectures, as well as to analyse architectures by simulation. In this paper, we demonstrate how DSMs can be connected to function-means models to enable 1) the simultaneous modification of functions, solutions and links of a product’s architecture and 2) the ability to export multiple DSMs from function models to use in simulations of non-functional properties of a product’s architecture (e.g., supply chain resilience) in digital design experiments. The initially identified multiple instances of architectures can be exported and communicated with other simulation and analysis tools, thereby enriching existing models with additional and more detailed information.

Change propagation

Design structure matrix

Function modelling

Design support

Author

Massimo Panarotto

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Timos Kipouros

University of Cambridge

Arindam Brahma

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Ola Isaksson

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Oskar Strandh Tholin

Student at Chalmers

John Clarkson

University of Cambridge

Proceedings of the 24th International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2022

68-77

24th International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2022
Eindhoven, Netherlands,

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Embedded Systems

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

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10/27/2023