Functional modelling in engineering design: a perspectival approach featuring living systems theory

Cowan, Fred; Allen, Janet K.; Mistree, Farrokh

doi:10.1002/sres.733

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“…The proposal is an innovative contribution to the development of CBM in the context of the emerging paradigm of CE, digitalization of businesses and companies, and the aim of mitigating the metabolic rift from the early stages in an aggregate level as it is the business value chain. The quantification of this model could be incorporated into the holarchies establishing the relations and flows between entities with quantitative methods such as ecological relations [98,175], living system theory in the different levels of granularity for the modeling of the knowledge [176][177][178], contextualizing material, energy and information of the process and use of sustainable indicators for each of the entities [179]. Another aspect to consider is the incorporation of open innovation with fractal criteria (repeated at different scales) in Eco-Holonic Architecture, and agile and Lean principles in the business [180,181].…”

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Eco-Holonic 4.0 Circular Business Model to Conceptualize Sustainable Value Chain towards Digital Transition

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The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a circular business model based on an Eco-Holonic Architecture, through the integration of circular economy and holonic principles. A conceptual model is developed to manage the complexity of integrating circular economy principles, digital transformation, and tools and frameworks for sustainability into business models. The proposed architecture is multilevel and multiscale in order to achieve the instantiation of the sustainable value chain in any territory. The architecture promotes the incorporation of circular economy and holonic principles into new circular business models. This integrated perspective of business model can support the design and upgrade of the manufacturing companies in their respective industrial sectors. The conceptual model proposed is based on activity theory that considers the interactions between technical and social systems and allows the mitigation of the metabolic rift that exists between natural and social metabolism. This study contributes to the existing literature on circular economy, circular business models and activity theory by considering holonic paradigm concerns, which have not been explored yet. This research also offers a unique holonic architecture of circular business model by considering different levels, relationships, dynamism and contextualization (territory) aspects.

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Eco-Holonic 4.0 Circular Business Model to Conceptualize Sustainable Value Chain towards Digital Transition

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“…Some recent research has extended the QFD method to account for stakeholders' multiple preferences and fuse them into one uniform group decision by means of fuzzy set theory [85]. Another example is [86], who observed that the key to developing complex systems lies in negotiating different perspectives such that a highly integrated and comprehensive result is achieved. A methodology is proposed that explicitly incorporates the multiplicity and diversity of perspectives encountered when designing these systems, which consist of many interfacing parts and different requirements regarding such concerns as performance, manufacturability, and economics.…”

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A Scientific Foundation of Collaborative Engineering

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Collaborative engineering is the practical application of collaboration sciences to the engineering domain. In today's highly connected technology-driven economy, the production industry must rely on the best practices of collaborative engineering to stay competitive when designing, manufacturing and operating complex machines, processes, and systems on a global scale. Despite its importance, collaborative engineering is currently more of a practiced art than a scientific discipline. A better understanding of how engineers should collaborate with all stakeholders to accomplish complex tasks that fulfill our increasing social responsibilities is a grand challenge. However, because we currently lack well-defined sciences of human collaboration, we must first establish a scientific foundation of collaborative engineering to develop this emerging field into a rigorous discipline. This paper reports on the CIRP community's collective efforts to establish such a scientific foundation according to the "Observation Hypothesis Theory" development pathway. Our objective is to spearhead the rigorous development of this new human-centered engineering discipline, so that useful knowledge can be generated to educate students and practical guidelines can be developed to enable engineers to become more productive collaboration leaders in the new global production industry.

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“…Function modeling is an expression, representation, or description of a product or system using high-level abstract language depending on its functionality [56]. The systems can be described as process flow block diagrams or hierarchical tree models of functional behavior [57]. However, in the xDID model, adopted from the definition of embodiment function by Deng et al [53], the function is proposed at the level of the embodiment function (physical structure level), which is achieved by the combination of the integrated structure (often multiscale) and its structural strategies.…”

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Supporting Multifunctional Bio-Inspired Design Concept Generation through Case-Based Expandable Domain Integrated Design (xDID) Model

Velivela

Zhao

2023

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Combining different features inspired by biological systems is necessary to obtain uncom-mon and unique multifunctional biologically inspired conceptual designs. The Expandable Domain Integrated Design (xDID) model is proposed to facilitate the multifunctional concept generation process. The xDID model extends the previously defined Domain Integrated Design (DID) method. The xDID model classifies biological features by their feature characteristics taken from various case-based bio-inspired design examples into their respective geometric designations called do-mains. The classified biological features are mapped to the respective plant and animal tissues from which they originate. Furthermore, the paper proposes a representation of the functions exhibited by the biological features at the embodiment level as a combination of the integrated structure (mul-tiscale) and the structural strategy associated with the integrated structure. The xDID model is val-idated using three multifunctional bio-inspired design case studies at the end of the paper.

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Functional modelling in engineering design: a perspectival approach featuring living systems theory

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

Eco-Holonic 4.0 Circular Business Model to Conceptualize Sustainable Value Chain towards Digital Transition

Eco-Holonic 4.0 Circular Business Model to Conceptualize Sustainable Value Chain towards Digital Transition

A Scientific Foundation of Collaborative Engineering

Supporting Multifunctional Bio-Inspired Design Concept Generation through Case-Based Expandable Domain Integrated Design (xDID) Model

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