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COMBINING FUNCTION MODELLING AND REQUIREMENTS MODELLING WITH THE IFM FRAMEWORK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Merlin Frederik Krüger,
Stefan Zorn and
Kilian Gericke
Merlin Frederik Krüger*
Affiliation:
University of Rostock
Stefan Zorn
Affiliation:
University of Rostock
Kilian Gericke
Affiliation:
University of Rostock
*
Krüger, Merlin Frederik, University of Rostock, Germany, merlin.krueger@uni-rostock.de

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The transmission of information between requirements modelling and function modelling in the product development process often appears challenging because of multiple used models and different terminology of specific disciplines. The integrated function modelling (IFM) framework is used for functional analysis of technical moderate complex systems and supports cross-disciplinary modelling and communication in the design team. To improve the applicability of this method and its supporting purpose in the modelling process, the authors combined requirements as an additional entity with the existing entities of this method. Furthermore, the extended framework has been used to visualise the procedure with this approach as an example. The outlook provides the potential for further development of the method.

Keywords

Functional modellingRequirementsIntegrated system modellingDesign methods

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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 3: ICED23 , July 2023, pp. 987 - 996
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