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As products have to meet many different and contradictory requirements, product developers are facing major challenges. The fundamental prerequisite for developing successful products is to understand how desired product properties can be realized by setting appropriate product characteristics. The objective of this paper is to develop a software tool that supports product developers by visualizing the complex network of relations between properties and characteristics. This gives developers a better understanding of the many different relations in product models and can thus make more efficient and more targeted decisions.
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The authors thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) for supporting the research project with the title “Product-oriented process management—Computer-aided modeling as well as graph-based analysis and visualization of the matrix-based product description”.
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Luft, T., Schuh, P., Wartzack, S. (2017). A Software Tool for the Graph-Based Visualization of Complex Relations Between Product Properties and Characteristics. In: Chakrabarti, A., Chakrabarti, D. (eds) Research into Design for Communities, Volume 1. ICoRD 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 65. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3518-0_62
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