A Review of Engineering Design Support Systems and Models

Engineers are experts who collaborate in the process of designing required or desirable artefacts. To that effect, they need to communicate design information to one another in the same organisation, with engineers in other organisations, or indeed to themselves. Engineers make use of models that best fit their respective discipline. Traditional design representations have well understood limitations, which can impair communication. Hence, improved representations are required to better support engineering design. Design support systems are instrumental in either the development or evaluation of design representations. This paper outlines and reviews various types of design support systems. A presentation of design models is then given and the advantages and disadvantages of these models in supporting engineering design are discussed.

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