EFFECT-ORIENTED DESCRIPTION OF VARIANT RICH PRODUCTS
S. Hami-Nobari, Lucienne T. M. Blessing · 2005
Due to changing market situation the variety of products and parts increases constantly. Re-garding the increase of the products and parts variety the code-based description of variant rich products and their interdependencies comes to its limitations. The complexity for describ-ing variant-rich products in the technical product documentation can hardly be managed any-more. The effect-oriented description is a promising approach for an efficient and understand-able description of variant-rich products and parts. In this case the product variety is described regarding to its partonomy and taxonomy in a general ontology. The interdependencies be-tween parts are expressed explicitly with regard to the effects and properties between the parts. In a research project at the DaimlerChrysler AG it could be shown, that based on the effect-oriented description the efforts and the complexity in the technical product documenta-tion can be reduced significantly.