CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering

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Axiomatic Design

  • Sang-Gook KimEmail author
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_6441-4
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Synonyms

Complexity theory; Design methodology

Definition

A design framework built upon the two design Axioms for good decision-making during the mapping between “what we want (function requirements)”, and “how we can achieve them (design parameters).”

Axiomatic Design Terminology

Axioms: Self-evident truth or fundamental truth for which there are no counterexamples or exceptions. An axiom cannot be derived from other laws or principles of nature.

Functional requirements (FRs): A minimum set of independent requirements that completely characterize the needs of the product in the functional domain.

Constraints: Bounds on acceptable solutions. Constraints are requirements, which may look like FRs but are not independent.

Design parameters (DPs): Key variables in the physical domain that characterize the design that satisfies the specific FRs.

Process variables (PVs): Key variables in the process domain that characterizes the process that can generate the specific DPs.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Mechanical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeUSA

Section editors and affiliations

  • Eric Lutters
    • 1
  1. 1.University of Twente, Faculty of Engineering Technology Laboratory of Design, Production and ManagementEnschedeThe Netherlands