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Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Published in: Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering 5/2017

03-08-2017 | Original Article

Transforming Multidisciplinary Customer Requirements to Product Design Specifications

Authors: Xiao-Jie Ma, Guo-Fu Ding, Sheng-Feng Qin, Rong Li, Kai-Yin Yan, Shou-Ne Xiao, Guang-Wu Yang

Published in: Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering | Issue 5/2017

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Abstract

With the increasing of complexity of complex mechatronic products, it is necessary to involve multidisciplinary design teams, thus, the traditional customer requirements modeling for a single discipline team becomes difficult to be applied in a multidisciplinary team and project since team members with various disciplinary backgrounds may have different interpretations of the customers’ requirements. A new synthesized multidisciplinary customer requirements modeling method is provided for obtaining and describing the common understanding of customer requirements (CRs) and more importantly transferring them into a detailed and accurate product design specifications (PDS) to interact with different team members effectively. A case study of designing a high speed train verifies the rationality and feasibility of the proposed multidisciplinary requirement modeling method for complex mechatronic product development. This proposed research offersthe instruction to realize the customer-driven personalized customization of complex mechatronic product.
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Metadata
Title
Transforming Multidisciplinary Customer Requirements to Product Design Specifications
Authors
Xiao-Jie Ma
Guo-Fu Ding
Sheng-Feng Qin
Rong Li
Kai-Yin Yan
Shou-Ne Xiao
Guang-Wu Yang
Publication date
03-08-2017
Publisher
Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society
Published in
Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering / Issue 5/2017
Print ISSN: 1000-9345
Electronic ISSN: 2192-8258
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10033-017-0181-6

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