TY - GEN
T1 - A tool to bridge the gap from functional dependencies to configuration rules translating knowledge on functional restrictions from systems engineers to a configurator for sales and decision makers
AU - Roth, Michael
AU - Nerb, Anton
AU - Kasperek, Daniel
AU - Lindemann, Udo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/6/2
Y1 - 2015/6/2
N2 - Facing increasing individual demands and complexity the management of the system configuration and variants is challenging. Especially the interface between systems engineering and sales can be a bottleneck. While configurators help to generate valid system variants, the definition of configuration rules is essential. However the functional dependencies often are implicit knowledge of the systems engineer and are not known to the sales departments. This paper develops a tool to bridge this gap. It supports the systems engineers to store their knowledge using logical dependencies and translates them into a configurator. It moreover enhances the configurator by a comparison to realized and existing projects, to identify similar configurations and thus improve the order acquisition process.
AB - Facing increasing individual demands and complexity the management of the system configuration and variants is challenging. Especially the interface between systems engineering and sales can be a bottleneck. While configurators help to generate valid system variants, the definition of configuration rules is essential. However the functional dependencies often are implicit knowledge of the systems engineer and are not known to the sales departments. This paper develops a tool to bridge this gap. It supports the systems engineers to store their knowledge using logical dependencies and translates them into a configurator. It moreover enhances the configurator by a comparison to realized and existing projects, to identify similar configurations and thus improve the order acquisition process.
KW - functional dependencies
KW - system configuration
KW - system variants
KW - variability management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84941312658&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116745
DO - 10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116745
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84941312658
T3 - 9th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, SysCon 2015 - Proceedings
SP - 158
EP - 163
BT - 9th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, SysCon 2015 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 9th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, SysCon 2015
Y2 - 13 April 2015 through 16 April 2015
ER -