A fuzzy logic approach for product configuration and requirements management

The main goal of this paper is to describe the integrated fuzzy logic approach to configuration and requirements management in the context of product lifecycle management (PLM) [1]. Configuration management is a part of PLM concept. In this work concept of configuration management as a process of development new products and control of several product's configurations was developed. The design process phase starts with requirements development (Fig. 1) and progress to product structure development. In this work the analysis of requirements management process was investigated and fuzzy framework to synthesis product configuration due to customer's requirements was suggested. Method implementation can be presented as a module for production PLM solution.