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Preliminary Design: Translating Requirements to Design Specifications

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Design is one of the phases of the system life cycle of GERA (Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture) which itself is a component of GERAM3. Design is split into two sub-phases: preliminary design 4 and detailed design. This section presents basic concepts and principles for preliminary design. The preliminary design of manufacturing systems will be used as a running example, however, the processes and rules presented here are equally valid for any kind of complex system.

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Chen, D., Vallespir, B., Doumeingts, G. (2003). Preliminary Design: Translating Requirements to Design Specifications. In: Bernus, P., Nemes, L., Schmidt, G. (eds) Handbook on Enterprise Architecture. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24744-9_15

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