ABSTRACT Proper design decoupling in the context of Axiomatic Design (AD) is essential to transforming customer needs to functional requirements, design parameters, and process variables using matrices. It is common that design decoupling is performed by adopting methods that are philosophically and methodologically different from AD, such as TRIZ. However, transformation of coupling problems following the approach lacks a uniform description for design coupling and also a systematic methodology for decoupling. This article presents a novel method that allows problems involving design coupling to be described by their attributes using the basic concepts of Extenics. The resulted descriptions are well-defined in the basic-element form with a set of uniform characteristics, enabling the decoupling process to be general, structured and effective in search for the knowledge needed for solving the coupling problem. Three decoupled models each exploring AD and Extenics for following a particular decoupling direction of AD are considered. A comprehensive analysis along with a few illustrative examples is considered to illustrate the validity of the decoupling method which is a synergy of AD with Extenics.

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使用可拓学描述公理设计中的耦合解决方案

摘要 公理化设计 (AD) 上下文中的正确设计解耦对于使用矩阵将客户需求转换为功能要求、设计参数和过程变量至关重要。设计解耦通常是采用与 AD 哲学和方法论不同的方法进行的，例如 TRIZ。然而，遵循该方法的耦合问题转换缺乏对设计耦合的统一描述，也缺乏系统解耦方法。本文提出了一种新方法，该方法允许使用可拓学的基本概念通过属性来描述涉及设计耦合的问题。结果描述在具有一组统一特征的基本元素形式中得到了很好的定义，从而使解耦过程具有一般性，结构化且有效地搜索解决耦合问题所需的知识。考虑了三个解耦模型，每个模型探索 AD 和可拓学以遵循 AD 的特定解耦方向。综合分析和一些说明性例子被认为是为了说明解耦方法的有效性，它是 AD 与 Extenics 的协同作用。