Engineering Objective Controls Knowledge Driven Product Definition in Industrial Product Development

High information content of integrated engineering activities stimulated development of product modeling during the past decades in order to support information management for lifecycle of products. Mechatronics is one of the engineering areas those require integrated product development techniques with strong knowledge based modeling and simulation in their background. The authors of this paper analyzed product modeling advancements in industrially applied product lifecycle management (PLM) systems in order to conceptualize new method to enhance knowledge content in product model. As a result of this analysis, they proposed a new method for control of product definition which extends the existing control in current PLM systems. This method is a contribution to solution for problems in current product modeling and is called as coordinated request based product modeling (CRPM). CRPM applies actual requested product definition (ARPD) as extension to currently applied product model. In this paper, the new method and entities as well as engineering objective definition and product behavior handling are explained as main contributions by the proposed modeling.