A customer-driven approach to product engineering of micro and nano devices – requirement analysis

Abstract

Product engineering of micro and nano technology (MNT) devices differs substantially from product engineering in more traditional industries. The general approach is mostly bottom up, as it centres around the available fabrication techniques. The strong emphasis on manufacturing technology leads to a large number of application specific fabrication processes. For a comprehensive product engineering (PE) approach, the customer (as purchaser of the desired devices) has to have control over the specification and design flow. The customer is the only party capable of driving the product engineering process. He/she defines the technical requirements and economical constraints according to his/her interest in a successful product.

Within the EU FP7 project CORONA a comprehensive PE methodology in combination with a supporting software tool framework is currently under development. To determine the requirements for both methodology and tool framework, a detailed analysis of currently existing models and methodologies employed in the MNT-industry has been performed. This paper presents the results of the requirement analysis for the product engineering approach.

The English version of the reprinted publication in the proceedings of the COMS2009 conference can be downloaded here.