High-end equipment development task decomposition and scheme selection method

Decomposition of tasks and selection of optimal schemes are key procedures in high-end equipment development processes. However, such procedures are highly innovative, technology intensive, interdisciplinary, and multi-party engineering projects, making the decomposition and scheme selection more difficult and complicated than that in the development of ordinary equipment. In this study, we consider three factors, namely, functional structure, task granularity, and task feasibility in task decomposition of high-end equipment development. Based on the principles of systems engineering, a method of task decomposition is proposed. As for decomposition scheme selection, a method based on the superiority and inferiority ranking (SIR) method mixed information and multiple attribute decision making is proposed by considering attributes of scheme feasibility, uncertainty risk and task integration complexity. To verify the proposed method, development of a military electric vehicle is used as an example to demonstrate the calculation process.