Abstract
Decreasing time and costs is a major objective in many businesses today. Including modularity in the early design phases can effectively decrease time spent on and costs associated with a project. the task of identifying modules within a product early in the design process (when decisions are less expensive) is made less daunting by using the techniques of functional modeling and module heuristics. This paper discusses the results of the initial efforts to verify the module heuristics on large products (products with functional models consisting of more than 30 sub-functions) since the module heuristics were originally developed on small products. Observations on needed modifications to the functional modeling technique and original module heuristics are reported along with an investigation of using potential risk statements to formulate modules. This work finds the original module heuristics do apply to large products with modifications and combining of heuristics. Copyright © 2009 by ASME.
Recommended Citation
R. Day et al., "Validating Module Heuristics on Large Scale Products," Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009, vol. 8, no. PART B, pp. 1079 - 1087, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Jun 2010.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2009-87099
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Second Department
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Publication Status
Available Access
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-079184905-7
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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© 2024 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
25 Jun 2010
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Aerospace Engineering Commons, Mechanical Engineering Commons, Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering Commons
