Mapping Requirements to Product Properties: The Mapping Model

Designers model and describe technical products by product properties that have to meet requirements. The paper presents the Mapping Model that ensures the respresentation of relationships between requirements and product properties within an integrated view of product synthesis. Determined product properties are constantly matched to desired properties. The elements and links between the spaces of the Mapping Model are explained and portrayed by a case study. The Mapping Model provides valuable base for methodological support of the transformation of requirements into product properties