Axiomatic design

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Axiomatic Design is a method for the structured design of systems. The basic principle of Axiomatic Design includes the structured search and allocation of suitable solutions for previously defined requirements. The requirements and solutions are divided into four different domains : the customer domain, the functional and physical domain, and the process domain.

The design process extends across all domains. It starts in the customer domain and ends in the process domain. Each predecessor domain describes requirements, each subsequent domain the corresponding solutions. The assignment of requirements to corresponding solutions is mapped with the help of matrices . The so-called independence and information axiom are an essential basis of the method. Both axioms - from which the method owes its name - formulate guidelines for the design process. For designers, they are an important basis for reviewing and assessing the decisions made during the design process.

Axiomatic Design was developed by Nam Pyo Suh at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Department of Mechanical Engineering) in the late 1970s . It was originally developed and used in mechanical engineering. In the meantime, this method has also been used successfully in many other areas, for example to design systems or software. As part of the International Conference on Axiomatic Design (ICAD), which takes place every two years, current developments in the application and research of Axiomatic Design are presented. The last conference ICAD2011 took place 30.-31. March 2011 in Daejeon , South Korea.

literature

  • Nam Pyo Suh: The Principles of Design (Oxford series on advanced manufacturing; 6). OUP, New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-504345-6 .
  • Nam Pyo Suh: Axiomatic Design. Advances and Applications . OUP, New York 2001, ISBN 0-19-513466-4 .
  • Nam Pyo Suh: Complexity. Theory and Applications . OUP, New York 2005, ISBN 0-19-517876-9 .
  • Bassem S. El-Haik: Axiomatic Quality. Integrating Axiomatic Design with Six-Sigma , Reliability, and Quality Engineering . Wiley-Interscience, Hoboken, NJ 2005, ISBN 0-471-68273-X .

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