VERIFICATION OF A MODEL OF SYNTHESIS-THE METHODS FOR VERIFICATION AND RESULTS

Engineering design consists of a variety of thought processes, but most of them can be classified into two types, analysis and synthesis. There is a need to build an advanced CAD system that can support not only analysis but also synthesis. However, traditionally, CAD technologies have paid little attention to synthesis. Our project team, “Modeling of Synthesis”, has focused on the synthesis thought process [1] and proposed a thought process model based on knowledge level operations [2][3]. Following these results, this paper reports the verification phase of the project.