Engineering Graph as an approach to support Design Decisions in Product Development

DS 122: Proceedings of the Design Society: 24th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED23)

Year: 2023
Editor: Kevin Otto, Boris Eisenbart, Claudia Eckert, Benoit Eynard, Dieter Krause, Josef Oehmen, Nad
Author: Schweitzer, Gregor (1); Bitzer, Michael (1); Vielhaber, Michael (2)
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: Fresenius Medical Care; 2: Saarland University
Section: Design Methods
Page(s): 1625-1634
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2023.163
ISBN: -
ISSN: -

Abstract

The requirements space is increasing due to non-functional areas such as security, resilience and sustainability gaining in importance. This creates a complex and dynamic space which makes it hard for engineers to take good data driven design decisions. Increasing the quality of design decisions allows to better set up development projects and develop more successful products and services. The design can most heavily be influenced in the early design phases, where design flexibility is high and resource commitment is low. Unfortunately, the system knowledge is also low in early phases. The Engineering Graph is a concept that connects data from different internal and external sources. It allows to connect product data stored in Product Lifecycle Management systems with system models and also add external sources from the Wikimedia Knowledge Graph, World Health Organization and World Bank. This interconnected data allows the support of engineers in managing the complex and dynamic requirement space and provide high system knowledge in the early design phases to support design decisions.

Keywords: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Early design phases, Semantic data processing, Engineering Graph, Design Decisions

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