Issue driven analysis of an existing product at different levels of abstraction

11th International Design Conference, DESIGN 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 673-682

  Eckert, C M ^a   Alink, T ^b   Albers, A ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Design cognition; Functional product models; Product analysis

Indexed keywords

DESIGN COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL PRODUCTS; HYDRAULIC PUMP; INDENTIFYING; LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; PRODUCT ANALYSIS; SEALING RING; SINGLE ELEMENT; SUB-SYSTEMS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84861478881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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