The complexity of the ship design process makes development of a ship design process model challenging. It quickly becomes apparent that the experts from which we are capturing knowledge bring a localized frame of reference (if they are subject matter experts) or a particularized frame of reference (if they have been involved in design integration for a particular ship design in the past). They often use different terms to describe the same thing and/or the same term to describe different things. It is easy to end up with a stack of “expert views” in English that are impossible to comprehend or to collate into a common model that can be understood. Therefore, it is necessary to have a model framework that is robust enough to receive the knowledge captured from these diverse perspectives, and a pre-arranged method to collate their answers into a model which can be manipulated and analyzed to yield answers to the fundamental questions. An important aspect of this framework is the realization that, during design, there are two major vectors of activity – Physical Integration and Requirements Satisfaction