Theory of Technical Systems
A Total Concept Theory for Engineering Design
Published on 31. October 1988
Book
Hardback
XIV, 278 pages
978-3-540-17451-6 (ISBN)
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This book presents a comprehensive and unifying theory to promote the under standing of technical systems. Such a theory is useful as a foundation for a ratio nal approach to the engineering design process, as a background to engineering education, and other applications. The term "technical system" is used to represent all types of man-made artifacts, including technical products and processes. The technical system is therefore the subject (in the grammatical sense of the word) of the collection of activities which are performed by engineers within the processes of engineering design, including generating, retrieving, processing and transmitting of information about products. It is also the subject of various tasks in the production process, including work preparation and production planning, and in many economic considerations, company-internal and societal. In this way, the Theory of Technical Systems is a contribution to science, as in terpreted in the wider, Germanic sense of a "co-ordinated and codified body of knowledge". It brings together the various viewpoints of engineers, scientists, economists, ergonomists, managers, users, sociologists, etc., and shows where and how they influence the forms of engineering products. It also explains the influ ences that a product exerts on its environment. This Theory of Technical Systems should thus interest design engineers, and en gineers involved in production, management, sales, etc. In an interdisciplinary ap plication of value analysis, the Theory of Technical Systems should provide answers to many questions raised in this field.
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1 Introduction.- 1.1 Technology.- 1.2 Technology As Cultural Factor.- 1.3 Development of Interpretations on Technical Systems and Theories.- 1.4 Technical Systems.- 1.5 Theory of Technical Systems.- 1.6 Summary.- 2 Needs - Demands Technical Requirements - The Job to Be Done.- 2.1 Case Study - Logging.- 2.2 Human Needs.- 2.3 Design to Fulfill Human Needs.- 3 Transformation Systems.- 3.1 Model of the Transformation System.- 3.2 Elements of the Transformation System.- 3.3 Transformation Systems - Statements.- 4 Technical Processes.- 4.1 Model of Technical Processes - The "TP Model".- 4.2 TP Operands.- 4.3 TP Structure.- 4.4 Received Effects, Produced Effects, Effects.- 4.5 TP Secondary Inputs and Outputs.- 4.6 TP Operators.- 4.7 TP Characteristics and Evaluation.- 4.8 Systematics of Technical Processes.- 4.9 Operating Activities Connected with the Process.- 4.10 TP Representation.- 4.11 Special Theories of Technical Processes.- 4.12 Technical Process - Statements.- 5 Technical Systems.- 5.1 Nature of Technical Systems (Habitude).- 5.2 Model of Technical Systems - "TS Model".- 5.3 TS Function Structure.- 5.4 TS Organ Structure.- 5.5 Component Structure of Technical Systems - TS Component Structure.- 5.6 Comparison of TS Structures and Their Transformations.- 5.7 TS Boundary.- 5.8 TS Environment.- 5.9 Technical Systems - Statements.- 6 Classification of Technical Systems (Systematics).- 6.1 Classification of Technical Systems by Function (Effect).- 6.2 Classification of Technical Systems by Action Principles.- 6.3 Classification of Technical Systems by Degree of Complexity.- 6.4 Classification of Technical Systems from Manufacturing Similarity.- 6.5 Classification of Technical Systems by Difficulty of Designing.- 6.6 Classification of Machine Parts and Groups (Sub-Assemblies) by Production Location and Degree of Standardization.- 6.7 Classification of Technical Systems by Design Originality (Degree of Novelty).- 6.8 Classification of Technical Systems by Type of Production.- 6.9 Classification of Technical Systems by Degree of Abstraction.- 6.10 Classification of Technical Systems by Type of Operand.- 6.11 Classification of Technical Systems by Application in the Technical Process.- 6.12 Classification of Technical Systems by "Quality".- 6.13 TS Systematics - Statements.- 7 The Properties of Technical Systems.- 7.1 Characteristics of Technical Systems As a Class.- 7.2 Categories of Properties of Technical Systems.- 7.3 Relationships Between the Properties.- 7.4 Determining the Properties and Their Relationships.- 7.5 Specification of Properties of Technical Systems.- 7.6 Mental Processes of Realizing the Properties of Technical Systems.- 7.7 TS Properties - Statements.- 8 Evaluation of Technical Systems.- 8.1 Evaluation Procedures.- 8.2 TS Evaluation - Statements.- 9 Representation of Technical Systems.- 9.1 Types of Representation for Technical Systems.- 9.2 Representation of Constructional Elements.- 9.3 Representation of Technical Systems - Statements.- 10 Origination and Operation Phases of a Technical Systems (Ontogenesis and Genetics of TS).- 10.1 Origination Phases of Technical Systems Manufactured in Quantity.- 10.2 Origination Phases of a Technical System Manufactured in One-Off Production.- 10.3 Origination Phases of a Technical System of Fourth Degree of Complexity (Plant).- 10.4 Origination and Operation of Technical Systems - Time Dependency.- 10.5 Execution of Partial Processes.- 10.6 Origination of Technical Systems - Statements.- 11 Developments in Technical Systems in the Course of Time (Phylogenics, Evolution of Technical Systems).- 11.1 Regularities in the Long-term Development Process.- 11.2 Trends in Developments.- 11.3 Regulating and Controlling the Process of Long-term Developments.- 11.4 Motivation for Long-term Developments.- 11.5 TS Developments in Time - Statements.- 12 Applications of the Theory of Technical Systems.- 12.1 Special Theories of Technical Systems.- 12.2 Engineering Design.- 12.3 Further Applications of the Theory of Technical Systems.- 12.4 Relationships of TTS to Other Knowledge.- Appendix A. Summary of Statements and Propositions from Chapters.- Appendix B. Terminology.