Seamless Function-Oriented Mechanical System Architectures and Models

Eng—Advances in Engineering, vol. 5, pp. 301–318

Abstract

One major challenge of today’s product development is to master the constantly increasing product complexity driven by the interactions between different disciplines, like mechanical, electrical and software engineering. An approach to master this complexity is function-oriented model-based systems engineering (MBSE). In order to guide the developer through the process of transferring requirements into a final product design, MBSE methods are essential. However, especially in mechanics, function-oriented product development is challenging, as functionality is largely determined by the physical effects that occur in the contacts of physical components. Currently, function-oriented MBSE methods enable either the modeling of contacts or of structures as part of physical components. To create seamless function-oriented mechanical system architectures, a holistic method for modeling contacts, structures and their dependencies is needed. Therefore, this paper presents an extension of the motego method to model structures, by which the seamless parametric modeling of function-oriented mechanical system architectures from requirements to the physical product is enabled.

Authors 7

1. Christian Wyrwich Aachen Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering

   RWTH Aachen University

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   Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Schinkelstraße 10, 52062 Aachen, Germany

2. Kathrin Boelsen corresponding Aachen Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering

   RWTH Aachen University

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   Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Schinkelstraße 10, 52062 Aachen, Germany

3. Georg Jacobs Aachen Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering

   RWTH Aachen University

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   Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Schinkelstraße 10, 52062 Aachen, Germany

4. Thilo Zerwas Aachen Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering

   RWTH Aachen University

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   Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Schinkelstraße 10, 52062 Aachen, Germany

5. Gregor Höpfner Aachen Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering

   RWTH Aachen University

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   Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Schinkelstraße 10, 52062 Aachen, Germany

6. Christian Konrad Aachen Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering

   RWTH Aachen University

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   Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Schinkelstraße 10, 52062 Aachen, Germany

7. Joerg Berroth Aachen Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering

   RWTH Aachen University

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   Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Schinkelstraße 10, 52062 Aachen, Germany