PRODUCT CONCEPTUAL DESIGN MODELING: A NEW GENERALIZED ALGORITHM.

Based on a comparative analysis of the conceptual design algorithms proposed in literature, a new variant of the conceptual design modeling, whose algorithm generalizes the existing algorithms, is proposed in the paper. The structure of the generalized algorithm starts from the requirements list and contains: a) global function statement, b) global function description by structures of sub-functions, c) solving structures generation, and d) selection of the best solving structure (the concept) by evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]