Framework for Platform System Design

这个博士项目将研究平台设计的框架/工具的需求和原型。在平台设计中，目标是通过可用于每个子系统的各种选项来设计一个高度灵活的系统。这意味着可以从同一个平台产生许多系统变体，从而形成一个系统家族。这种方法应该有助于满足市场对产品多样性的持续需求，同时试图防止工程开发和生产成本的显著增加。这在某种程度上已经在汽车公司中使用，但还没有进入航空航天工业。为了实现这一目标，将进行广泛的文献综述，以确定该领域的当前艺术状态，并熟悉目前在该领域应用的设计工具和方法。据设想，调查的一些关键主题将与模型如何参数化有关。系统工程工具和哲学的使用将被用来理解如何为高度复杂的系统做出设计决策和权衡，以便这也可以被纳入设计工具。本研究的新颖之处在于平台层面的设计调查。这将使复杂系统的设计师能够参数化复杂产品的产品族，并同时设计一系列产品，这将使他们能够满足对各种产品不断增长的需求，并以更短的交货时间和开发成本进入利基市场。

This PhD project will investigate the requirements for, and prototype, a framework/tool for platform design. In platform design the goal is to design a system that is highly flexible through the various options that can be used for each subsystem. This means that many system variants can be produced from the same platform, resulting in a system family. This approach should help to satisfy the continued market demand for product variety, whilst trying to prevent significant increases in engineering development and production costs. This is something which has to some degree been employed within automotive companies but as of yet has not made its way into the aerospace industry. To achieve this, an extensive literature review will be carried out to determine the current state of the art in this field, and to become familiar with the design tools and methodologies currently being applied in this domain. It is envisaged that the some of the key topics for investigation will relate to how the model is parameterised. The use of systems engineering tools and philosophies will be utilised to understand how design decisions and trade-offs are made for highly complex systems, so that this can also be incorporated into the design tool.The novel aspect of this research is the investigation of design at the platform level. This will enable designers of complex systems to parameterise product families for complex products, and to concurrently design a family of products which will allow them to meet the growing demand for variety of products and reach niche market segments with lesser lead times and development costs.