Metrics for assessing design freedom and information certainty in the early stages of design

Timothy W. Simpson, David Rosen, Janet K. Allen, Farrokh Mistree

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Abstract

Our primary focus in this paper is on open engineering systems which are readily adaptable to changing design requirements. Designing an open engineering system allows a family of products to be developed around a common baseline model. This entails increasing design freedom and design knowledge during the early stages of design. Toward this end, developing ranged sets (as opposed to points sets) of top-level design specifications provides a means to improve system flexibility by increasing design knowledge while maintaining design freedom. Consequently, our secondary focus in this paper is on metrics for assessing the design freedom and information certainty associated with a ranged set of top-level design specifications. As a demonstration, these metrics are applied to an example problem, namely, the conceptual design of a family of aircraft. Our emphasis in this paper is on introducing open engineering systems and metrics for design freedom and information certainty, not on our example, per se.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication8th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)9780791897607
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996
EventASME 1996 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference, DETC-CIE 1996 - Irvine, United States
Duration: Aug 18 1996Aug 22 1996

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
Volume4

Conference

ConferenceASME 1996 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference, DETC-CIE 1996
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityIrvine
Period8/18/968/22/96

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Modeling and Simulation

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