Problem Investigation

Abstract

In order to meet the fundamental demands of scientific relevance and rigor of DSR a precise problem definition is required (Sect. 2.2). The following chapter describes the initial undesirable state of a local problem situation, followed by the problem selection and its transfer into a practical problem with global relevance to be solved in our investigation (Sect. 4.1). With regard to preparing an adequate and relevant definition of a practical problem, we gathered similar problems from different local practices (Sect. 4.2) and deduced a generalized problem description relevant for global practice considering a root cause analysis (Sect. 4.3).