Integrated design environment for life cycle design

Life cycle design requires planning of a product life cycle in addition to designing of a product. One of the effective methods to plan the product life cycle is to describe a life cycle scenario, which should be then realized by designing the product and its life cycle processes. This paper proposes an integrated design method to support the life cycle design comprehensively. Especially, we propose a design system that supports a designer to describe the life cycle scenario and to design the product based on the scenario in an integrated manner.