A New Strategy for Automating the Generation of Product Family Members and Artifacts Applied to an Aerospace Application

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory M. Roach ◽  
Jordan J. Cox ◽  
Jared M. Young
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Cycle Time ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Parametric Models ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
New Strategy

A major challenge in industry today is to reduce the cost and cycle time in product development while maintaining enough flexibility to adapt to changing markets. Businesses are requiring more and more flexibility in order to produce custom goods at low cost. A new strategy called the Product Design Generator is presented to provide flexible product platforms through an automated design process where product variation is built into the product development process and is achieved through scalable and in some instances modular parametric models for a given product platform embodiment. A case study of web-based Product Design Generator is presented. The axial turbine disk Product Design Generator demonstrated cycle time reduction from 500 man hours to 15 minutes. This new product development strategy has demonstrated the potential to provide engineers the ability to study more potential design solutions, reduce the number of opportunities to introduce error in the product development process, and allows companies to apply a consistent design process across the organization.

Design for Production: A Tool for Reducing Manufacturing Cycle Time

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey W. Herrmann ◽  
Mandar M. Chincholkar
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Cycle Time ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Cycle Times

Abstract This paper describes a decision support tool that can help a product development team reduce manufacturing cycle time during product design. This design for production (DFP) tool determines how manufacturing a new product design affects the performance of the manufacturing system by analyzing the capacity requirements and estimating the manufacturing cycle times. Performing these tasks early in the product development process can reduce product development time. The paper presents a comprehensive DFP approach and describes the components of the DFP tool, which gives feedback that can be used to eliminate manufacturing cycle time problems. We present an example that illustrates the tool’s functionality.

From Customer Requirements to Detailed Design: How Do Product Data Change?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Rossoni ◽  
Giorgio Colombo ◽  
Luca Bergonzi
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Product Data ◽  
Virtual Tools ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Product Design Process

Current trends in product development process highlight the increasing adoption of digital data and virtual processes. Nowadays, a huge amount of product data are collected without a clear management strategy and, oftentimes, they dont even cover the whole product development process. A global and integrated planning about information needed to sustain product design process is not a trivial task and, usually, companies underrates this issue. From the perspective of virtualization of processes, and then their automation, the lack of structured knowledge is certainly awful. This paper aims at making a critical analysis how product data evolve throughout the product design or configuration process and how they impact the product development activities. Efficient digital product twin allows companies to virtualize processes and leverage their automation, but it is important to understand how the knowledge management should be carried out. Three case studies, directly experienced by the authors, have been investigated analyzing digital data and virtual tools that allow companies to automate the design process, each one bringing a peculiar perspective of the problem.

Circular product design: strategies, challenges and relationships with new product development

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Fernandes Aguiar ◽  
Jaime A. Mesa ◽  
Daniel Jugend ◽  
Marco Antonio Paula Pinheiro ◽  
Paula Paula De Camargo Fiorini
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Content Type

PurposeAlthough product design is a fundamental element in the transition towards the circular economy, the knowledge of practices, methods and tools oriented to circular product design has not been widely developed. This study aims to contribute to the circular economy research area by investigating and analyzing the main design approaches to circular products and their relationship to new product development.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a systematic review and qualitative analysis of 120 articles. In these studies, the authors analyzed aspects such as design strategies used, the barriers to the adoption of circular product design and the relationships between the phases of new product development processes with circular product design studies.FindingsThe findings revealed that the circular product design approach has added new design strategies to those already recommended by ecodesign, such as multiple use cycles, emotional durability and biomimicry. Furthermore, the results showed that most circular product design articles focus on the planning and concept development phases of the new product development process.Originality/valueIn this article, the authors systematized the findings of an emergent research area: the development of new products for the circular economy. Its main contributions lie in the identification of design strategies, the classification of Design for X approaches, analysis of such approaches during the new product development process and discussion of their main barriers. Finally, this study presents contributions for managers and designers who are starting the transition to a circular strategy.

Technology Engineering for NPD Acceleration

2011 ◽  
pp. 81-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nouha Taifi ◽  
Eliana Campi ◽  
Valerio Cisternino ◽  
Antonio Zilli ◽  
Angelo Corallo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
New Product Development Process

In complex environments, firms adopt continuously new IT-based systems and tools for knowledge management, otherwise knowledge can be dispersed or lost. And as a part of the new product development process, the product design is one of the most crucial phases for the relevance of its data and information and for the importance of the new knowledge creation of its designers and engineers. This chapter argues, through a conceptual model, the strategic role of the integration of knowledge management systems and special communities for the acceleration of the new product development process and presents an ontology-based knowledge management system and its application in the context of a community of automotive designers. More precisely, the issue management, based on this engineered IT-system, will accelerate and optimize the product design phase and knowledge sharing among the designers and engineers.

Leadership in the Product Development Process

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Hugh E. McLoone
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Products ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Evaluative Process ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
The Right

Creativity can be viewed as a chaotic or unplanned activity. The product design process often may seem like chaos as well, but this is not inevitable. Designers and human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) professionals follow a clear design process with phases, levels, and methods for creation of successful new products. Research methods are offered at the right time during this process to generate new concepts and to evaluate designs. We work together to create innovative, valued, and successful products via a generative, iterative, evaluative process.

Innovation and New Product Development Management

2010 ◽  
Vol 156-157 ◽  
pp. 1578-1581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Jun Miao ◽  
Hong Mei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Product Development Strategy ◽  
New Product Development Process

The new product development process of enterprises can not be separated from innovation, new product development process of enterprise need for effective management. Consumer tastes, competition and rapid technological change, businesses must continue to develop new products and services to meet consumer demand. New product development strategy of many strategies to be adopted by enterprises in accordance with the actual situation, according to the market environment and each practicality of the strategy, operational, and other serious, careful choices. In this article, it expounds the meaning of innovation and new product development, focuses on analyzing the new product development in the whole process of how to innovate and discussing how the use of innovative new product development theory of management and new product development strategy.

A CPN Based Model for a Typical Product Development Process

2015 ◽  
Vol 740 ◽  
pp. 957-960
Author(s):  
Xiao Ling Yin ◽  
Bo Yang ◽  
Hai Tao Li
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Petri Nets ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Timed Petri Nets ◽  
Cpn Tools ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Typical Process

To take a wonderful understanding of design process, a modeling method based on colored hierarchical timed Petri nets and a model for a typical process of product design using this method are introduced. Then, aiming at some key issues, the model are simulated by CPN Tools and the results are shown in the paper according to which some convictive conclusions are drawn which indicates the method introduced is valid and reasonable.

Experience Design Applied to Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea CAPRA ◽  
Ana BERGER ◽  
Daniela SZABLUK ◽  
Manuela OLIVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Low Resolution ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Technological Products

An accurate understanding of users' needs is essential for the development of innovative products. This article presents an exploratory method of user centered research in the context of the design process of technological products, conceived from the demands of a large information technology company. The method is oriented - but not restricted - to the initial stages of the product development process, and uses low-resolution prototypes and simulations of interactions, allowing users to imagine themselves in a future context through fictitious environments and scenarios in the ambit of ideation. The method is effective in identifying the requirements of the experience related to the product’s usage and allows rapid iteration on existing assumptions and greater exploration of design concepts that emerge throughout the investigation.

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