Development of a toolkit of methods for simulations in product development

摘要

Simulations contribute to the efficiency of the product development process and the quality of the developed products. However, their integration in the development process can be improved. We propose a knowledge-based framework, containing a toolkit of simulation methods as its central element to integrate simulations in the product development process. Within this paper, we briefly introduce the knowledge-based framework and we present the toolkit structure and the methodology for its development.