Sustainability is one of the biggest challenges of this century either for the environment or
economical growth. The required cultural shift needs challenging action that will involve …

Although the importance of knowledge sharing among designers has been widely
recognized, knowledge about functionality in the conceptual design phase is hard to capture …

It has been recognized that design knowledge is scattered around technology and target
domains. One of the two major reasons for it is that different frameworks (viewpoints) for …

Change propagates, potentially affecting many aspects of a design and requiring much
rework to implement. This article introduces a cross-domain approach to decompose a …

In conceptual design of engineering devices, a designer decomposes a required function
into sub-functions, so-called functional decomposition, using a kind of functional knowledge …

Functionality is one of the key concepts of knowledge about artifacts. Functional knowledge
shows a part of designer's intention (so-called design rationale), and thus its sharing among …

Some scholars have recently criticised functional decomposition and morphology (FDM)
approaches despite their wide diffusion in academia. More precisely, several research …

In recent years, the air transport market has experienced strong growth, increasing the
demand for new civil aircraft, challenging the actual production rate of aerospace industries …

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When a product variant offers functionality that is high in demand, firms may decide to
leverage that design to enhance other variants in their product line. This can be achieved by …