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2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Complexity in the context of product design
Authors : Prof. Dr.-Ing. Udo Lindemann, Dr.-Ing. Maik Maurer, Dr.-Ing. Thomas Braun
Published in: Structural Complexity Management
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In the practice of product design, the efficient management of complexity has increasingly gained importance. This not only concerns technical components and their assembly into comprehensive products, but, in fact, in increasing the market, process and organizational complexity also directly affects any engineering challenges. As all of these aspects are related in practical applications, avoiding and reducing complexity in one aspect does not automatically result in optimum results in a comprehensive context. Rather specifically selected strategies of complexity management represent a crucial competitive factor for successful engineering in a complex environment.