Analyzable Product Model (APM)

Combine information

and add idealizations

Use idealizations

Solder-Joint Deformation Model

PWB Warpage Model

PWA Deformation Model

Analysis Models

Analyzable Product Model

(APM)

Design Representations

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• The Analyzable Product Model (APM) is a formal engineering representation.

• Specifically tailored for analysis.

• Whose purpose is to facilitate design-analysis integration.

• This representation is an object-oriented data model for a single, integrated repository which sits between the design and analysis representations.

• Providing a more analysis-oriented view of the product.

• From this APM, analysis applications can extract the information they need, including product idealizations.

• Besides providing a single source of analysis information, the APM bridges the semantic and syntactic gap between design and analysis and enables reusability by supporting data entities and idealizations that are shared among multiple analyses.