Abstract

Conceptual design is an early stage of the whole mechatronics product development process, which involves the generation of solutions to satisfy the design requirements. Conceptual design includes three stages: functional design, principle conceptual design and structure conceptual design. And Functional design is the important part of product's conceptual design. It is a crucial issue how to help designers to find proper functions and their function structure to meet design requirements. This paper proposes a functional design methodology based on functional ontology in mechatronics product design, which can be used to design innovative mechatronics products. The design of a separator machine is given as an example, which demonstrates that the methodology is obviously useful.

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