Recursive Method of Forming a Technical Object Description and Design Process Organization

Abstract

This article presents the recursive method of forming a description of any mechanical engineering object, which provides its practical computer support, regardless its type. Creative activity on new technical objects development is considered as manufacturingactivity. It is a subject to control and management, organizational and administrative regulation. Such activity has three features of its substantiation. These are designing, projection and aesthetic design. The last two ones are quite simple according to control and management of the process of the technical object project development as they are based on a previously accepted and approved concept. However, in the first case, where the designed object is considered as the one containing many complex processes, the “decomposition” approach is chosen. Its development process is algorithmized on the basis of formal Terms of References (ToR) meaning the selection of components that would be specially combined into one unit and ensure compliance with the ToR requirements. Such object description using ICOM approach of the IDEF0 method, form the interfaces that are necessary for the object functioning. It provides the clarification of the component description if it is absent or formation the last ToR in the design chain, if there is an understanding of the component practical implementation or choosing an appropriate item according to the catalog, if there is a real component description. These three cases cover all possible variants of the output decomposition results and guarantee the completion of an organized recursive process of detailing the designed object description.