Design of Products Through the Search for the Attractor

The development of Internet technologies and their application to commerce environments has favored new business strategies for industries. These allow including in the design phase the experience of use that the clients have of the product. However, this new element has not been considered in formal terms. A fundamental problem in product design is that it has not been modeled in mathematical terms, which means that their characteristics do not appear in rigorous and short properties, but in long developments that from an economic point of view maintain their meaning but that from a mathematical point of view are not sufficiently manageable. Therefore, since these properties have not been axiomatically formalized, we cannot work with them mathematically. For this reason, we propose analyzing the design of products through a network and discrete chaos theory perspective, which will allow us to use important mathematical tools such as graph theory and concepts, such as coverage, invariability, orbits, attractors, and the structural function. This paper also draws attention to the importance of circular flow in the general systems theory and its application to the design phase of products. Finally, the Intel case study is analyzed, locating the current attractor and its relationship with the success of the company’s products.

[1]  Giuseppe Zollo,et al.  Elegance as Complexity Reduction in Systems Design , 2018, Complex..

[2]  Wassily Leontief Input-Output Economics , 1966 .

[3]  Miguel Lloret-Climent,et al.  Coverage, invariability and orbits by structural functions , 2006 .

[4]  Xiao Fei Sun,et al.  Application of Chaos Theory in the Garment Industry and Design , 2013 .

[5]  L. Cutaia,et al.  Sharing economy and circular economy. how technology and collaborative consumption innovations boost closing the loop strategies , 2017 .

[6]  Miguel Lloret-Climent,et al.  A new network perspective in the study of labour markets , 2018 .

[7]  Josep Lluis Usó-Doménech,et al.  System-linkage: Structural Functions and Hierarchies , 1998, Cybern. Syst..

[8]  Robert Harrison,et al.  A Method to Assess Assembly Complexity of Industrial Products in Early Design Phase , 2018, IEEE Access.

[9]  W. Zhang,et al.  An integrated environment for CAD/CAM of mechanical systems , 1994 .

[10]  Miguel Lloret-Climent,et al.  Coverage and invariability by structural functions , 2006, Int. J. Gen. Syst..

[11]  Lei Shu,et al.  Smart Factory of Industry 4.0: Key Technologies, Application Case, and Challenges , 2018, IEEE Access.

[12]  Joe B. Hanna,et al.  Enhancing supply chain solutions with the application of chaos theory , 2006 .

[13]  Kenneth C. Laudon,et al.  E-Commerece : business, technology, society / Kenneth C. Laudon , 2017 .

[14]  Tim Cooper,et al.  Circular Product Design. A Multiple Loops Life Cycle Design Approach for the Circular Economy , 2017 .

[15]  D. Ariely,et al.  Money, Time, and the Stability of Consumer Preferences , 2015 .

[16]  Miguel Lloret-Climent,et al.  ATTRACTORS, STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONS, AND THE WATER CYCLE , 2007, Cybern. Syst..

[17]  Luis Ribeiro,et al.  On the Design Complexity of Cyberphysical Production Systems , 2018, Complex..

[18]  N. Bocken,et al.  Product design and business model strategies for a circular economy , 2016 .

[19]  Jan Holmström,et al.  The dynamics of consumer response A quest for the attractors of supply chain demand , 1999 .

[20]  Stig Irving Olsen,et al.  Circular economy: To be or not to be in a closed product loop? A Life Cycle Assessment of aluminium cans with inclusion of alloying elements , 2016 .