Analysis of known technical systems

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Activities

  • Activity 1: Clarifying and itemising the problem or task
  • Activity 3: Searching for solution principles and their solutions
  • Activity 4: Assessing and selecting the solution concept
  • Activity 8: Elaborating the details of execution and use

Description

Tools with which you can gradually and comprehensibly arrive at new or improved variants of known solutions. The present system is analyzed as a whole or broken down into its parts in order to draw conclusions about known, e.g. generally used or previously developed systems.

Procedure

  1. Analysis of the present system and its parts
  2. Mentally linking systems/parts of known systems
  3. Draw conclusions for the present system

Sources

  • Kumke 2018
  • Pahl et al. 2007, p. 124-126
  • VDI 2221 (1993)