System Architecture: Strategy and Product Development for Complex Systems, First Edition
by Daniel Selva, Bruce Cameron, Edward Crawley
12.3 Develop the Concepts
We begin with the first step in our concept framework, developing the concepts. Recalling the stakeholder and goal analysis for the Hybrid Car, we began with changing the location of the people and their possessions as the solution-neutral operand and process, modified by the attributes of “inexpensively” and “environmentally.”
Our system problem statement has already begun to define the concept, in that we specialized the process to driving with the attributes of fuel efficiency and good handling:
Provide our customers a product:
To transport them and their possessions inexpensively and in an environmentally sound manner
By allowing them to drive themselves, their passengers, and light cargo fuel-efficiently and ...
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