Configuring Systems Using Available Assets: A Conceptual, Decision-Based Perspective

Design using available assets, in the context of theory and methodology, is more a state of research than a state of practice. At a low level of abstraction, design using available assets, or catalog design, is a procedure in which a system design is realized by assembling standard components selected from catalogs. A nearly endless supply of available components and component assemblies, defined in terms of key features, can be stored in catalogs or computer databases as available assets to realize new designs. If this notion of catalog design, or design using available assets, is abstracted to higher levels and implemented in the earliest stages of the design of a product, a consistent method for quickly exploring new designs based on that which already exists can be developed.

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