Abstract
Recently, it has been required to develop a very complicated product in a short term. To meet this demand, further development of design support systems is expected. This paper considers the functions which the next-generation design support system should equip, by investigation of past design examples of failure, from the inclusive viewpoint of conceptual, detailed, and production design phase. As a result, two fundamental demands for the next-generation design support system was derived: one is to embed process models of each design phase, including knowledge and know-how, and the other is to realize communication among CAD, CAM, CAE, and FA. The broadly-defined CAD including CAD, CAM, CAE, and FA, turned out to be necessary, which equips functions for satisfying the above two demands.
