Analyzing and Modeling Interdisciplinary Product Development: A Framework for the Analysis of Knowledge Characteristics and Design Support

✍ Scribed by Frank Neumann (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Vieweg
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Frank Neumann focuses on establishing a theoretical basis that allows a description of the interplay between individual and collective processes in product development. For this purpose, he introduces the integrated descriptive model of knowledge creation as the first constituent of his research framework. As a second part of the research framework, an analysis and modeling method is proposed that captures the various knowledge conversion activities described by the integrated descriptive model of knowledge creation. Subsequently, this research framework is applied to the analysis of knowledge characteristics of mechatronic product development (MPD). Finally, the results gained from the previous steps are used within a design support system that aims at federating the information and knowledge resources contained in the models published in the various development activities of MPD.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI
Introduction and Motivation....Pages 1-21
Mechatronic Product Development....Pages 23-65
Knowledge: Concepts and Taxonomies....Pages 67-78
A Cognitive Psychology Perspective on Individual Knowledge Creation....Pages 79-87
Organizational Knowledge Creation....Pages 89-104
Research Framework for the Analysis of the Knowledge Characteristics of Product Development....Pages 105-139
Process Elements of Mechatronic Product Development....Pages 141-155
Semantic Technologies for Design Support in Mechatronic Product Development....Pages 157-171
Architecture for a Design Support System in Mechatronic Product Development....Pages 173-187
Summary and Outlook....Pages 189-191
Back Matter....Pages 193-258

✦ Subjects

Engineering Design; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Mechatronics