Paper Info
Title
The Paradigm of Design Thinking and Systems Engineering in the Design of Cyber-Physical Systems: A Systematic Literature Review
Abstract
Digitization has been driving technological design in mechanical engineering and related industries such as the automotive, electronics and medical technology sectors. A change from classic, mechanics centered systems to mechatronic systems and further to intelligent, cyber-physical systems is becoming apparent. To counter the resulting increase in complexity, research and industry are adapting values and practices of agile approaches to extend conventional design solutions like systems engineering. In many cases, the aspects of volatility regarding changing requirements and a fast response time are addressed by implementing agile approaches like SCRUM into the design of cyber-physical systems. In contrast, the aspect of uncertainty is rarely considered. Uncertainty is characterized by an increasing number of challenges, which are often intertwined and ill-defined which sums up to so-called wicked problems in systems design. There is neither an industry-specific nor an industry-independent clear understanding how to tackle such challenges. Furthermore, also classical systems engineering does not explicitly offer practices to tackle the increasing percentage of uncertainty in design. In contrast to this, however, design thinking is said to offer processes and methods to tackle wicked problems in systems design. To get an idea for potentials and workarounds how design thinking can work in synergetic interaction with classical systems engineering, this contribution presents the result of a Systematic Literature Review that condenses different interpretations and understandings of design thinking. To address the stated objective the focus is set on the applicability in combination with classical systems engineering as well as an understanding applicable to the context of cyber-physical system design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ISSE51541.2021.9582548
2021 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Design Thinking,Systems Engineering,CyberPhysical Systems (CPS),Systematic Literature Review,Systems Design Thinking (SDT)
Conference
2687-881X
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-3169-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Julian L. Tekaat100.34
Harald Anacker222.71
roman dumitrescu396.83