A morphological chart is a graphical tool we can use in engineering design problems to put combine functions and means together to find an integrated solution, after the specifications have already been determined.
How we use it
We put functions on the left column of the chart, and methods we could address those functions in the remainder of the chart. We then connect the methods in different patterns until we’ve explore a sufficient number of combinations.
An example below:1
Footnotes
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From Designing Engineers, by McCahan, Kortschot, et al. ↩