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Product Development and Lightweight Design
Part II: Product Development
Cost Management
In the area of cost management, the early phases of
the product life cycle, the cost responsibility of design-
ers and the necessary cooperation between various
internal departments and external corporate points are
emphasized. Designers and engineers are supported
by the research activities of the department for product
development in various areas. Thus, methods and tools
are designed to enable cost estimates during early phases
of product development and to make them thorough and
reliable.
Projects
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FVA e.V.
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diverse companies
Challenge in cost management: forecast and influence of visible and
hidden layers in product design
Systems Engineering
Initial situation of the project and aspects of mechatronics development
The Laboratory for Product Development and Lightweight
Design has a long tradition in integrated product devel-
opment. In recent years, research activities of systems
engineering were performed to react on the increasing
interdisciplinarity of product development and to benefit
from synergies. Research focus of the laboratory is the
development of product architectures as an important link
between requirements analysis and design of individual
components. Methodologically seen, the lab mainly works
based on the approach of structural complexity manage-
ment.
A major result in this field is the guideline developed for
a market-oriented top-down modularization tailored to
machine and plant engineering.
Project
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DFG SFB project A10 – Analyzing the dynamics of
cyclic interactions in PSS