A New Approach on Modeling for Product Development : Expansion and Unification

Abstract

The authors introduced a new approach on modeling and proposed a concept of the functional model in the previous report. A method for expansion and unification of this functional model is presented in the present report. The machine is an organic system consists of many parts. All parts act cooperating one another, transferring and changing the energy according to their specific rolls, and as the result of their dynamical collaborations, the machine fulfills its mission as required performance. It is necessary for next age computer aided development of machine to construct the virtual product with which connecting parts from small scale to large scale units, assembling the machine from parts to total product, exchanging parts and disassembling the machine can be performed by simulation in the computer. The proposed method makes this possible. This method is shaped up with three application examples.