Looking at 'DFX' and 'Product Maturity' from the Perspective of a New Approach to Modelling Product and Product Development Processes

摘要

Base of this contribution is a quite new theoretical approach to modelling products and product development processes developed by the author and his team: "Characteristics-Properties Modelling" (CPM) and "Property-Driven Development" (PDD), respectively. This approach is able to give extended or new explanations for some issues important in product development/engineering design. In this contribution the terms "Design for X" (DFX) and "(Degree of) Product Maturity" are investigated both of which are important issues in practice, but until today only weakly related to the theoretical foundation of product development/engineering design.