The word "design" in this lecture means design of function.
Clarify the concept of design and learn about the product architecture. Explain the characteristics of modular architecture and integral architecture.
Understanding the product architecture
Architecture, Modular, Integral
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Answer the given isuue as the result of the group discussion based on the contents of lectures.
On the day of group work, issues will be discussed by all attendants after the group presentations.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Introduction Lecture: What is "Design"? (Paper by Blumrich) Lecture:"Design Rules Chapter 1" | Understanding the concept of "Design" |
Class 2 | Group Work: Reading "Design Rules Chapter 2" "Task Structure Matrix" Josef F. Blumrich, “Design” Science, Vol. 168, pp.1551-1554, 1970. | Understanding "Task Structure Matrix" |
Class 3 | Group Work: Reading "Design Rules Chapter 3 and 4" "Design Structure Matrix" | Understanding "Design Structure Matrix" |
Class 4 | Group Work: Reading ”Axiomatic Design” Chapter 1 | Understanding "Axiomatic Design" |
Class 5 | Group Work: "Modularity and Modular Architecture" Karl Ulrich “The role of product architecture in the manufacturing firm”, Research Policy, Vol. 24, pp. 419-440, 1995 | Understanding the deference between "modular architecture" and "integral architecture" |
Class 6 | Lecture: Architecture of "Assembly products" and "Process products" | Understanding the product architecture |
Class 7 | Lecture: Design theory considering the constraint | Touching on efforts to more advanced design theory |
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Josef F. Blumrich, “Design” Science, Vol. 168, pp.1551-1554, 1970
“Design Rules” by Carliss Y. Boldwin and Kim B. Clark, The MIT Press (2000)
“Axiomatic Design” by Nam Pyo Suh, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (2001)
"The Sciences of the Artificial" by Herbert A. Simon
"The Nature of Technology" by W. Brian Arthur
Reports: 80%
Contribution to the lecture: 20%
It is desired that "Strategic Management for Research and Development I and II" have been taken.