Abstract
Design structure matrix (DSM) is an effective tool for product architecture design. Product architecture design is important, because it has broad implications for product performance, product change, product variety, and manufacturability etc. Therefore, product architecture is required to satisfy various requirements from those domains into consideration and the scope of product architecture design has been expanded from relationships between functions and components to relevant domains. Following this, DSM-based product architecture methodologies have integrated interactions of multiple domains in the form of multi domain matrix (MDM). Since MDM is a developing tool, suitable domains and analytical methods for product architecture design have not been clarified. This paper discusses domains of DSMs and applied DSM analysis methods in DSM-based product architecture design methodologies from the point of view of product types and production methods. Following such a discussion, we present the concept of choice of domains and analysis methods for various category product ’s architecture design.
