Samsung recently introduced a new smartphone display with increased breaking resistance, which will probably be relevant for future cars as well. This example shows that subsystems, in general artefacts from former development processes can be relevant for subsequent projects. Their integration has to be planned, i.a. even before the original product is in the market and across branches. The research on supporting methods requires a suitable description model for this phenomenon. Research in design reuse and PGE – product generation engineering addresses this only partially yet. Design reuse focuses on the informational aspect, PGE refers primarily to reference products. This contribution aims at closing this gap as a basis for future research. Two case studies from industry projects by the authors and an example from foresight and product planning show the role of artefacts from former development processes in running projects. It is described which artefacts are used as a reference, why they are used and when. Based on these findings the authors propose the term “reference system” to depict the whole set of artefacts, which serves as a basis for every product development project.

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This paper proposes a three-phase DC-AC converter for autonomous microgrids based on renewable energy sources. The microgrid topology offer simple control characteristics, where the AC link does not need a complex voltage controller strategy. The DC-AC converter (three-phase inverter) generates output voltages with very low THD for any type of load. To obtain the before mentioned characteristics for the inverter, this work propose an internal model principle based controller structure in synchronous dq frame, with a reduced sampling and number of poles. With this structure, is possible to considerably improve the stability and dynamic system response, and mainly, the saturation of the low frequency insulating transformer is avoided. Also in this paper, is proposed a straightforward design methodology for the discrete internal model based controller. In order to validate the proposed digital controller structure, the design methodology and to demonstrate the steady state and transient performance, experimental results are presented from a 15kVA SVPWM modulated three-phase inverter, fully controlled by a DSC dsPIC30F4011.

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