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Product Structuring for Design Re-use

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The contemporary view of design re-use reflects the utilisation of any knowledge gained from a design activity and not just of past designs of artefacts. Structuring knowledge from the design process is an essential part of design re-use. Without structure, utilisation of knowledge re-use would prove more difficult. The product structuring principles of decomposition, configuration and rationalisation go part way to meet the requirements of ‘design re-use’. The process of ‘designing for re-use’, however, continues to cause difficulties for the design research community. The effective capture of often abstract knowledge from an ‘evolving design model’ for subsequent re-use requires further research. Structuring principles play a large role in this, in that the applicability of any repository of knowledge is limited without adequate structure. Despite this, a mapping process of product structuring to design re-use identifies that ‘design for re-use’ lacks support from product structuring principles. The potential for enhancing a number of structuring principles to facilitate ‘design for re-use’ is highlighted with the specific example of modularisation.

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Smith, J.S., Duffy, A.H.B. (2001). Product Structuring for Design Re-use. In: Riitahuhta, A., Pulkkinen, A. (eds) Design for Configuration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56905-0_8

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