Laws of Technical Systems Evolution - Kinematic Laws

Kinematic Laws

  • Law of increasing the degree of ideality of the system
The ideality of a system is a qualitative ratio between all desirable benefits of the system and its cost or other harmful effects. When trying to decide how to improve a given invention, one naturally would attempt to increase ideality, either to increase beneficial features or else to decrease cost or reduce harmful effects. The ideal final result would have all the benefits at zero cost. That cannot be achieved; the law states, however, that successive versions of a technical design usually increase ideality. Ideality = benefits/(cost + harm)
  • The law of uneven development of parts of a system
A technical system encompasses different parts, which will evolve differently, leading to the new technical and physical contradictions.
  • The law of transition to a super-system
When a system exhausts the possibilities of further significant improvement, it's included in a super-system as one of its parts. As a result new development of the system become possible.

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