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With increasing pressure coming from global competition and requirements for greater innovation in product development, designers are forced to deliver designs of higher quality and variety using a repertoire of technological options from different disciplines. The increasing occurrence of interdisciplinary product development has not only removed many of the traditional constraints to design but has given the designer a much wider freedom of choice as to the best solution to a design problem. This paper describes an integrated design tool called Schemebuilder, aimed at supporting the designer in the conceptual through embodiment stages of design, and providing guidance on the range of options available. In particular, it highlights the software tools used in the task of matching and selecting of component models to satisfy functional and performance requirements, assessing and comparing alternative schemes, preliminary laying out of assemblies, and simulating schemes and components. Methods to integrate the various levels of model representations of system components are also presented.
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Chaplin, R.V., Li, M., Oh, V.K., Sharpe, J.E.E., Yan, X.T. (1994). Integrated Computer Support for Interdisciplinary System Design. In: Gero, J.S., Sudweeks, F. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Design ’94. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0928-4_34
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