Chains of Function Delivery: The Role for Product Architecture

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Abstract : This research intends to improve three areas of team performance in concept design: (1) the team's understanding and recognition of the product architecture, (2) the team's ability to document integration issues and risks, and (3) the team's ability to judge whether a product concept is worthy of further pursuit. Many of the high impact decisions made in concept design revolve around integration issues: how the product's physical elements work together to deliver the performance characteristics, or functions. The product architecture, a singularly important characteristic of the product, is in great part determined by the mapping of the product's functions to the physical elements that deliver those functions. Integration issues pose a unique kind of integration risk: the chance that adequately designed individual elements will not function properly when connected to form the product, or cannot be assembled and debugged easily and quickly. During concept design, a developmen

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