... required for future designs of the product. The second index is the Coupling Index (CI), a measure of the coupling among the product components. The design team uses these two indices to develop a decoupled architecture that requires less design effort for follow-on products. architecture product...

... and comparison of the optimality conditions for several methods of optimizing fully coupled embodiment design and control systems. The results demonstrate that the methods do not possess the same optimality conditions and therefore will not converge to the same optimal solutions, often leading to sub-optimal...

... ideas that led to five key requirements for CPD across the supply chain. The concepts of degree of design customization and degree of coupling are introduced as a framework by which to evaluate the risk introduced into the product development process by suppliers. The engineering metric supplier...

.... This effort leads to an enhanced decomposition method that is able to find the most appropriate decomposition solution to a complex design problem. 30 06 2008 Decomposability Complexity Coupling Dependency Analysis Two-Phase Decomposition Incidence Matrix Proceedings of DETC 04...

...) of the combined system, which depends upon the tool length. In earlier work, a combined analytical and experimental method has been discussed, that uses receptance coupling substructure analysis (RCSA) for the rapid prediction of the combined spindle-holder-tool FRF. The basic idea of the method is to combine...