Download or read book A Framework for Modular Product Design Based on Design for x Methodology written by Anoop Sreekumar and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New products are routinely introduced in the expanding consumer market. In spite of incorporating many advanced technical features, only a few of these are financially successful. While competition, economic, and cultural, experience, and reputation factors are major influences in the success, or failure, of a product, a well-researched and efficient design distinguishes successful products from others. Product design and development, is a vastly researched topic and Design for `X' (DFX) methodology is the basis for majority of product design procedures presently. Yet, there exist no framework for product design and development that can guide a designer through each design criterion, or `X' in this methodology. Such a framework, if existed, would list out the design attributes and design factors for each of the design criterion. This purpose of this work is to establish such a framework for designing products. It is intended for this framework to be interactive while guiding the designer through each factor that may be critical in design. The framework described here considers 8 different criteria, each broken into design factors and sub-factors. Each design criterion is discussed as a separate design module. The design factors in each module and their influences on product design have been discussed in separate sections. The inter-dependence of the design modules, design attributes, and design factors has been identified, establishing the need for a framework which can serve as the basis for a comprehensive database for all the `X's' in the DFX methodology.
Download or read book The Design Guidelines Collaborative Framework written by Stefano Filippi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the industrial design and engineering field, product lifecycle, product development, design process, Design for X, etc., constitute only a small sample of terms related to the generation of quality products. Current best practices cover widely different knowledge domains in trying to exploit them to the best advantage, individually and in synergy. Moreover, standards become increasingly more helpful in interfacing these domains and they are enlarging their coverage by going beyond the single domain boundary to connect closely different aspects of the product lifecycle. The degree of complexity of each domain makes impossible the presence of multipurpose competencies and skills; there is almost always the need for interacting and integrating people and resources in some effective way. These are the best conditions for the birth of theories, methodologies, models, architectures, systems, procedures, algorithms, software packages, etc., in order to help in some way the synergic work of all the actors involved in the product lifecycle. This brief introduction contains all the main themes developed in this book, starting from the analysis of the design and engineering scenarios to arrive at the development and adoption of a framework for product design and process reconfiguration. In fact, the core consists of the description of the Design GuideLines Collaborative Framework (DGLs-CF), a methodological approach that generates a collaborative environment where designers, manufacturers and inspectors can find the right and effective meeting point to share their knowledge and skills in order to contribute to the optimum generation of quality products.
Download or read book Product Design for Modularity written by Ali K. Kamrani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modular products are products that fulfill various overall functions through the combination of distinct building blocks or modules, in the sense that the overall function performed by the product can be divided into sub-functions that can be implemented by different modules or components. An important aspect of modular products is the creation of a basic core unit to which different components (modules) can be fitted, thus enabling a variety of versions of the same module to be produced. The core should have sufficient capacity to cope with all expected variations in performance and usage. Components used in a modular product must have features that enable them to be coupled together to form a complex product. Modularity will promote: reduction in product development time; customization and upgrades; cost efficiencies due to amortization; quality design standardization; and reduction in order lead time. The purpose of this book is to develop a structured approach to the design of products using the concept of modularity, assembly, and manufacturability. The book has proposed and developed a structured and systematic approach to product and systems design using the modularity concept. Mathematical and genetic algorithm models are developed to support the developed methodology.
Download or read book Modular Design Frameworks written by James Cabrera and published by Apress. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the basic principles of modular design, and then put them into action to create sites that are easy to use, look great, and can be adapted within the context of your business needs. With author James Cabrera—one of the thought leaders in the modular-design movement—you'll create a single, scalable project for a sample nameplate site and then adapt that same project to work successfully as a portfolio site, an e-commerce site, and finally as a news/publishing content site. Along the way, you'll learn the scientific approach to devising a sound and scalable design strategy, followed by establishing a basic foundation using various criteria relevant to that type of site. As each chapter progresses, you'll add new concepts appropriate for the project type. Modular web and app design isn't just for so-called "creatives." It's a teachable science with principles that can be replicated in a creative manner. This approach makes the design decision making process for businesses much easier (and easier to live with). And modular design is a powerful tool for software designers to replicate effective successful designs across a spectrum of needs. What You'll Learn Examine the design process in a modular way Adapt your HTML code to create different types of applications Establish your own modular framework for your specific site's goals Design for scale Develop a strong foundation skeleton for design Who This Book Is For User experience designers, user interface designers, information architects, developers with an interest in design, developers who want to create their own design frameworks.
Download or read book Design for X written by Charles M. Eastman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the expertise of worldwide authorities in the field, Design for X is the first comprehensive book to offer systematic and structured coverage of contemporary and concurrent product development techniques. It features over fifteen techniques, including: design for manufacture and assembly; design for distribution; design for quality; and design for the environment. Alternative approaches and common elements are discussed and critical issues such as integration and tradeoff are explored.
Download or read book Methodical Development of Modular Product Families written by Dieter Krause and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the development of multi-variant products using modular product structures and thus addresses the reduction of complexity from a product development perspective. These modular product structures allow for a greater variety of demand with a smaller, internal variety of components and processes. As a supplement to the common product development methodology, the necessary basics of modularity and variant diversity as well as the corresponding methods are presented comprehensively. The book thus summarizes the current state of science as well as the research activities of the past ten years at the Institute of Product Development and Design Technology at the TU Hamburg-Harburg. The target groups This book is aimed at product developers and decision makers in practice. Science is offered a helpful reference book and interested engineering students can immerse themselves in the development of modular product families with the necessary basics. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Methodische Entwicklung modularer Produktfamilien by Dieter Krause & Nicolas Gebhardt, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2018. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
Download or read book Design Methodology for Future Products written by Dieter Krause and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design Methodology for Future Products – Data Driven, Agile and Flexible provides an overview of the recent research in the field of design methodology from the point of view of the members of the scientific society for product development (WiGeP - Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Produktenwicklung e.V.). This book aims to contribute to design methods and their implementation for innovative future products. The main focus is the crucial data-driven, agile, and flexible way of working. Four topics are covered in corresponding chapters, Methods for Product Development and Management, Methods for Specific Products and Systems, Facing the Challenges in Product Development and Model-Based Engineering in Product Development. This publication starts with the agile strategic foresight of sustainable mechatronic and cyber-physical systems, moves on to the topics of system generation engineering in development processes, followed by the technical inheritance in data-driven product development. Product improvements are shown via agile experiential learning based on reverse engineering and via combination of usability and emotions. Furthermore, the development of future-oriented products in the field of biomechatronic systems, sustainable mobility systems and in situ sensor integration is shown. The overcoming of challenges in product development is demonstrated through context-adapted methods by focusing on efficiency and effectiveness, as well as designer-centered methods to tackle cognitive bias. Flow design for target-oriented availability of data and information in product development is addressed. Topics of model-based systems engineering are applied to the function-driven product development by linking model elements at all stages and phases of the product. The potential of model-based systems engineering for modular product families and engineering of multidisciplinary complex systems is shown.
Download or read book Advances in Product Family and Product Platform Design written by Timothy W. Simpson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Product Family and Product Platform Design: Methods & Applications highlights recent advances that have been made to support product family and product platform design along with successful applications in industry. This book provides not only motivation for product family and product platform design (i.e., address questions about “why and when should we platform”) but also methods and tools to support the design and development of families of products based on shared platforms (i.e. address the “how” and “what” questions about platforming). It begins with a general overview of product family design to introduce the general reader to the topic and then progress to more advanced topics and design theory to help designers, engineers, and project managers plan, architect, and implement platform-based product development strategies for their company. Finally, successful industry applications provide readers and practitioners with case studies and “talking points” to become platform advocates and leaders within their organization.
Download or read book Management of Design written by Sriram Dasu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product design significantly influences product cost and quality, as well as market share and profitability of a firm. Design projects often involve many people belonging to different functional areas and in many organizations several design projects may be under way at the same time. Due to this complexity, management of design has given rise to a rich set of research problems in management and engineering. In this volume, design is considered as the planning and specification activity prior to fabrication. Design determines what products will be produced, how they will be produced, and when they will be introduced into the market. The quality of the products and the speed with which they are developed are significantly affected by the design process. The design process by which a product is developed is determined by the managerial and engineering practices, tools and techniques. This book presents engineering and management perspectives on design. Topics covered include: Decomposition of product development projects; Tools and techniques for preliminary evaluation of designs; Interface between design and manufacturing, assembly and distribution; Design information flows, and Determination of the scope, timing and duration of projects, and the allocation of resources.
Download or read book An Inductive Approach to Product Design Based on Modular Product Architecture written by Balaji Chandrasekaran and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Modular written by Milan Kratochvíl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A starter to the concepts of modularization and mass customization. Condensed and application-oriented approach for a broad audience in engineering, production, sales and marketing. Provides an extensive configurator evaluation checklist for future users and a supplement of business cases.
Download or read book Controlling Design Variants written by Anna Ericsson and published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduces the concept of modular design within the product platform approach, intended to increase company efficiency while reducing costs and time to market. Companies can achieve significant advantages by separating parts that should vary to satisfy customer needs from parts that should be kept as common units. The terminology and a five-step method for creating modular product platforms are developed."--Back cover.
Download or read book Improving product redesign efficiency in the detailed design phase a structure variation map based on customer environment requirements written by Yan Xuan and published by OAE Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aim: The aim of this study is to shorten the product design and development cycle to meet the continuous change and growth of customer environmental requirements. Methods: The applied research method introduces the concept of the inheritable structure of green products through structural similarity theory and quantitates environmental performance. Additionally, based on the analysis of the obtained customer ecological requirements, a hierarchical mapping method for customer requirements-environmental performance weight-product structure is proposed, which achieves the rapid mapping of customer requirements (CRs) to product structure in the product design process. Then, four mutation operation methods (combination, decomposition, replacement, and material change) are combined with a genetic algorithm, and a method for generating a product structure mutation map is proposed to solve the problem of the non-inheritance of some structures in the product design process. Finally, considering the transmission shell as an example, the validity and feasibility of the method are verified. Results: The case study showed that the overall mass of the rear derailleur dropped by 27.58 kg, and the environmental performance of the transmission was mainly related to its mass; hence, the proposed improvement method effectively improved the environmental performance of the transmission. Conclusion: The hierarchical mapping method for customer requirements-environmental performance weight-product structure and the generation method for the product structure variation diagram proposed in this study can shorten the product design and development cycle. This research can provide theoretical and methodological support for product design and development.
Download or read book Product Design written by Mike Baxter and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of market needs and the manufacture of a product to meet those needs are integral parts of the same process. Since most textbooks on new product development are written from either a marketing or an engineering perspective, it is important for students to encounter these two aspects of product development together in a single text. Product Design: Practical Methods for the Systematic Development of New Products covers the entire new product development process, from market research through concept design, embodiment design, design for manufacture, and product launch. Systematic and practical in its approach, the text offers both a structured management framework for product development and an extensive range of specific design methods. Chapters feature "Design Toolkits" that provide detailed guidance on systematic design methods, present examples with familiar products, and conclude with reviews of key concepts. This major text aims to turn the often haphazard and unstructured product design process into a quality-controlled, streamlined, and manageable procedure. It is ideal for students of engineering, design, and technology on their path to designing new products.
Download or read book Cooperative Decision Making in Modular Product Family Design written by Marc Windheim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of modular product families holds enormous economic potential for companies, as there are always great opportunities but also risks associated with all life phases of a product. However, these fundamental and far-reaching effects inevitably lead to conflicting objectives when defining modular product structures, which makes decision-making in product development particularly complex.Considering relevant theories from decision theory and product family design, this book presents an innovative method to support decision makers in the development of modular product families. The central element of the method is a novel Modularity Decision Dashboard (MDD), which interactively visualizes all decision-relevant data. The findings presented here confirm that applying the method to real-world decision-making problems leads to a more balanced ratio between internal and external variety, and thus significantly contributes to the efficient economic benefit of modularization.
Download or read book Modular Product Development for Mass Customization written by Ahm Shamsuzzoha and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product customization is a growing concern in today's competitive business environment. A customer-driven product design and development system must be developed to respond to customers' aspirations and demands. Success in customization process is achieved by swiftly reconfiguring product development process and business strategies with respect to individual customers needs and dynamic production requirements. Product reconfiguration approach allows satisfying unexpected customers demand through offering extra features. It permits customers to choose their products based on choices of product attributes. Along with product reconfiguration process, a new level of information integration among product development participants is required both within the firm and with external environments. In this book, the integration of information system among potential customers, designers and manufacturers is developed with a view to fabricate custom-built products. This integration process also needs to formulate with appropriate production strategies such as; modularity, platform-based product development, commonality etc to meet diverse market demands.
Download or read book Product Design written by Catalin Alexandru and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product design is a comprehensive process related to the creation of new products, and the ability to design and develop efficient products are key to success in today’s dynamic global market. Written by experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the product design process and its applications in various fields, particularly engineering. Over seven chapters, the authors explore such topics as development of new product design methodologies, implementation of effective methods for integrated products, development of more visualized environments for task-based conceptual design methods, and development of engineering design tools based on 3D photogrammetry, among others.
