Engineering changes are essential for any product development, and their management has
become a crucial discipline. Research in engineering change management has brought …

Featured Application Multicopter. Abstract The main focus of this paper is the integration of
an integrated function modeling (IFM) framework in an engineering framework based on …

This paper presents a method to automatically extract function knowledge from natural
language text. The extraction method uses syntactic rules to acquire subject-verb-object …

The development of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies has brought new design
possibilities, and to utilise those possibilities, new sources of AM design knowledge are …

Research and industrial practice have produced a host of function models and modeling
approaches over the last decades. Each of these is meant to support designers in their …

Over the last two decades, consumers have become increasingly aware and desiring of
sustainable products. However, little attention has been paid to developing conceptual …

The paper presents a formal representation for modeling function structure graphs in a
consistent, grammatically controlled manner, and for performing conservation-based formal …

Engineering changes are unavoidable and occur throughout the lifecycle of products. Due to
the high interconnectivity of engineering products, a single change to one component …

Interdisciplinary system development requires the integration of diverse expertise to
combine different engineering technologies and—increasingly often—services, in order to …

This research defines the basis for a new quantitative approach for retrieving useful
analogies for innovation based on the relevant performance characteristics of functions. The …