scholarly journals Product Development Using Bio-mimicry Design Spiral Approach of Swimming Aid

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 08007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Purwaningsih Ratna ◽  
Rahardjo Danu ◽  
Budiawan Wiwik ◽  
Adi Wicaksono Purnawan ◽  
Santosa Haryo
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Tool Design ◽  
Functional Design ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Design Function ◽  
Alternative Solutions ◽  
Design Spiral

In the search for sustainable products idea, Bio-mimicry is one of the method to find alternative solutions. Bio mimicry is a method to define solution that is filtered and developed by nature. This study used bio mimicry technology to formulate a model of “hand swimming aids” to increase hands thrust in the water when swimming. The proposed model is based on the use of the Bio mimicry Design Spiral rule. Spiral Bio mimicry Design Rules used to simulate the shape and functional design of selected natural organisms. This study learn how frog lining model help frog to swim and select one model and apply it on hand swimmer tool design so that it can produce more sustainable products and can apply the design function of natural model well.

scholarly journals Biomimicry element application in the interior design product development

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Elīna Grieze ◽  
Elīna Miķelsone
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Local Pollution ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Environment Sustainability ◽  
Design Spiral

Introduction. Environmental issues have different social and economic causes. The demand on natural raw materials has led to the disappearance of different animal species, yet human waste is one of the most important elements of global and local pollution. According to the results of the survey, 56% of those surveyed in Latvia have recognised that they prefer to choose those brands that are in favour of a clean environment. Sustainability and environmentally friendly farming are becoming more and more wide spread and topical, so the authors want to explore whether biomimicry used in a product development, increases the opportunities for more sustainable products. Aim and tasks. The main aim of this research is to create a framework for using biomimicry to manufacture new interior design products. The interior design project is needed to improve the quality of life in a society. The intention for this research is to help to develop the quality of long-term solutions for the society's daily life in accordance with nature. An interior design, which is created close to natural processes using all possibly available materials and products on the basis of biomimicry methods. Results. This article explores the ways in which biomimicry techniques, based on the Design Spiral and Janine Benyus Biomimicry Design Lens Principles of Life, can be combined with the design process of an interior design, thereby to create a framework with the help of which a designer works and creates a sustainable interior design. The interior design is a complex process, it is more than just the location of objects in a room or just a decorative supplement that covers the structure of a building, it is a necessary dimension that actually transforms a simple architectural space into a habitable place with a desired order, stability, and individuality. Conclusions. The article proposes a basis for the application of biomimicry in the development of an interior design product. The main difference between an interior design and the methodology of biomimicry is that in an interior design process the main question needs to be biologized from “What do I want to create?” to ”What do I want to achieve with my design?”. Also, in an interior design process there are phases to follow to create a design, like there are phases to create in biomimicry based products or processes. The most important points in the creation of the framework are the milestones at which the process of designing interior design should begin to be biologized. Changing the order of the Design Spiral phases and adjusting it to the designing points of an interior design, a system can be created in which all stages of the Design Spiral are connected with the interior design process.Milestones show the progress of a project where each milestone has the actions or activities to be performed, respectively.

scholarly journals Benefits and obstacles of sustainable product development methods: a case study in the field of urban mobility

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Stark ◽  
Tom Buchert ◽  
Sabrina Neugebauer ◽  
Jérémy Bonvoisin ◽  
Matthias Finkbeiner
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Passenger Cars ◽  
Design Engineers ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Design For Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Mobility Solution

In the last few years, numerous approaches have been introduced for supporting design engineers in developing more sustainable products. However, so far, these efforts have not led to the establishment of a commonly acknowledged standard methodology for Sustainable Product Development (SPD). This brings into question the relevance of developing new methods and calls for more efforts in testing the available ones. This article provides a reflection about the benefits and obstacles of applying existing SPD approaches to a real product development project. It reports the results of a project aimed at developing a new mobility solution under the constraints of sustainability-related targets. This project has led to the development of a new pedelec concept, focusing on the substitution of small passenger cars with the help of three SPD methods – Design for Sustainability Guidelines, Product Sustainability Index, and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment. These methods have proved to be generally beneficial, thanks to a combination of qualitative and quantitative perspectives. However, the multitude of criteria offered by the methods put forth difficulties in evaluating which sustainability aspects are relevant and therefore lead to higher effort for information retrieval analysis and decision processes. Furthermore, the methods still lack an integrated perspective on the product, the corresponding services and the overarching system.

scholarly journals Application of Axiomatic Design for Agile Product Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 223 ◽  
pp. 01004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Puik ◽  
Dareks Ceglarek
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Axiomatic Design ◽  
New Product ◽  
Agile Development ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
Iterative Development ◽  
Agile Design ◽  
Development Methods

Agile, and iterative, development methods for new product development are gaining in popularity under product engineers; where it initially was just applied for software development, now larger adoption takes place for product development in general. The design rules of agile development are somewhat conflicting with the guidelines of Axiomatic Design. In this paper, it is investigated why this is the case, what can be done about it, and how can the strengths of agile development be combined with Axiomatic Design to optimise methods for product design. It is shown that the methods are indeed advising on different and conflicting strategies, however, by attenuating the agile design rules in the early stage of design, and doing the same for AD in the later stage of design, best of both worlds can be combined.

Architecture, Performance, and Investment in Product Development Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali A. Yassine ◽  
Joe Naoum-Sawaya
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Mathematical Formulation ◽  
Product Architecture ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Architectural Patterns ◽  
Modular Architectures ◽  
Allocation Decisions ◽  
Resource Allocation Decisions

Firms engaging in product development (PD) face the imperative problem of allocating scarce development resources to a multitude of opportunities. In this paper, we propose a mathematical formulation to optimize PD investment or resource allocation decisions. The model maximizes the performance of a product under development, based on its architecture and the firm's available resource, by choosing the optimal resource allocation across product modules and design rules that govern the relationships between these modules. Results based on a comprehensive experiment (with various architectural patterns, escalating number of dependencies, and different problem sizes) shed light on three important hypotheses. First, product architecture affects resource allocation decisions and ultimately product performance. The second hypothesis tests whether modular or integral architectures can attain higher performance levels based on our formulation. A third hypothesis states that there is a shift in the temporal allocation of resources from design rules to individual modules, thus supporting the move from integral to modular architectures as the product evolves across multiple generations. Finally, the model and the experimental results provide design and managerial insights to both development engineers and managers. Specifically, for development engineers, the model and its analysis provide guidance for selecting the product architecture which leads to maximum performance. For development managers, the model and its analysis assist in deciding the optimal budget proportions to be allocated to modules and to design rules, given a fixed architecture and budget.

scholarly journals APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA AND PRODUCT LIFE-CYCLE DATA SIMULATION IN CONCEPT SELECTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1979-1988
Author(s):  
S. Y. Kwok ◽  
J. Schulte ◽  
S. I. Hallstedt
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Concept Selection ◽  
Data Simulation ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Strategic Integration ◽  
Sustainability Criteria ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Alternative Solutions

AbstractCompanies struggle with identifying relevant sustainability aspects strategically, assessing alternative solutions quantitatively, and making trade-offs. This paper reports results from a prescriptive study with an aerospace company, and presents the Sustainability Criteria And product life-cycle Data Simulation (SCADS) approach. Based on strategic integration of sustainability indicators, this approach aims to enable visualisation and comparison of the sustainability implications of different concepts in early design phases of product development.

scholarly journals An optimization model to solve the resource constrained project scheduling problem RCPSP in new product development projects•

DYNA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 87 (212) ◽  
pp. 179-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Néstor Raúl Ortíz Pimiento ◽  
Francisco Javier Diaz Serna
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Optimization Model ◽  
New Product ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Project Scheduling Problem ◽  
The Impact

New product development projects (NPDP) face different risks that may affect the scheduling. In this article, the purpose was to develop an optimization model to solve the RCPSP in NPDP and obtain a robust baseline for the project. The proposed model includes three stages: the identification of the project’s risks, an estimation of activities’ duration, and the resolution of an integer linear program. Two versions of the model were designed and compared in order to select the best one. The first version uses a method to estimate the activities’ duration based on the expected value of the impact of the risks and the second version uses a method based on the judgmental risk analysis process. Finally, the two version of the model were applied to a case study and the best version of the model was identified using a robustness indicator that analyses the start times of the baselines generated.

Empirically Testing Factors Increasing Manufacturing Product Innovation Success

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tor Guimaraes ◽  
Ketan Paranjape ◽  
Mike Cornick ◽  
Curtis P. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Management Of Technology ◽  
Proposed Model

Purpose: Important determinants of new product development success fall into five main areas encompassing strategic leadership, competitive intelligence, management of technology, specific characteristics of the company's innovation process, and the company's absorptive capacity to use available knowledge to produce and commercialize new products. Unfortunately the existing knowledge on each of these five areas is not being shared by researchers in the other areas, thus the models are focused on the particular research area. This study tests these constructs as a set of determinants of product innovation success. Design/methodology/approach: A field test using a mailed questionnaire to collect a relatively large sample of manufacturing companies has been used to test the proposed model. To eliminate possible multicollinearity among the independent variables, a multivariate regression analysis was used. Findings: The results provide clear evidence about the importance of competitive intelligence, strategic leadership, competitive intelligence, management of technology, specific characteristics of the company's innovation process, and company absorptive capacity with company success in new product development. Research limitation/implications: Despite the relatively broad scope of the proposed model, other factors may also be important and should be included in future studies. Practical implications: The items used for measuring the main constructs provide further and more specific insights into how managers should go about developing these areas within their organizations. Originality/value: While the study is grounded in the literature of what until now have been five separate areas of knowledge, it proposed a unique integrated model for these areas important to new product development.

scholarly journals The Role of Developed Concurrent Engineering on Enhancing a Competitive Capability for Manufacturing Firms

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (Special Issue 03) ◽  
pp. 322-338
Author(s):  
Karrar Abdulellah Azeez ◽  
Husam Saleem Najaf AL-tayar
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Low Costs ◽  
Manufacturing Time

This paper focused on the Concurrent Engineering which is a powerful model for product development and many firms need to remain in the competition market. It has an important role for the product development process via reduced a manufacturing time, higher product quality, lower cost in the manufacturing process and meeting customer requirements, which are key factors to determine the success. The paper shows the role played by the development of Concurrent engineering through its four dimensions after adding the fourth dimension called product sustainability design, which is complementary to other dimensions and is no less important, especially after environmental manufacturing has become a commitment to the environment and society itself. The four dimensions integrated for enhancing the competitiveness of firms. Results showed two aspects. Firstly, presented the role of concurrent engineering developed through its four dimensions in developing concurrent products, while the second aspect shows the contribution of each of the four dimensions of concurrent engineering to enhance competitiveness through its indicators. Findings revealed that the four-dimensional concurrent engineering contributes, through all its dimensions, to achieving rapid access to sustainable products that meet the desires of customers with low costs, which in turn was reflected in enhancing the competitiveness of firms.

VR Based Integration of Technical and Shape Design Processes in Product Development

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Brandt ◽  
Jörg Lemke
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Product Structure ◽  
Shape Design ◽  
Functional Design ◽  
Technical Design ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Industrial Designers

Abstract The use of proven modules in engineering design is a common approach that can be understood as one of the key elements in engineering design helping to speed up product development. Today manufacturers have to be aware of the fact that there are tight links between a products shape, its functional design and the overall product structure. The “form follows function” paradigma is no longer valid for most modern products. It is obvious that there is a strong demand to reduce the expenses in technical design by supporting the communicational needs between the technical and industrial designers during the entire design process with the help of appropriate CAE tools. This paper presents an approach to integrate technical and shape design processes using advanced visualisation tools and VR technology.

Understanding the priorities of designers for an ecodesign support during environmentally sustainable product development

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prashant Kumar Singh ◽  
Prabir Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Quality Of Products

PurposeThe main purpose of this research is to understand the priorities of designers for an ecodesign support, while developing environmentally sustainable products. Also, this study identifies the requirements of the designers for managing the environmental quality of products.Design/methodology/approachThis research is conducted in two phases of survey. In the first phase, various requirements of designers are collected, refined and segregated under certain well defined characteristics of the ecodesign support. In second phase, the designers are asked to rank each characteristic of the ecodesign support in a questionnaire. The responses obtained from the designers are analyzed separately for engineering designers and design researchers by using Henry Garrett ranking technique to identify the priorities of designers for an ecodesign support.FindingsResults show that there is a contrast between the perspective of engineering designers and design researchers, and their priorities for an ecodesign support are opposite to each other. Thus it can be understood that the features which are added by design researchers in ecodesign support may not be adequate for engineering designers to manage the environmental quality of products.Originality/valueThe designers play a key role in the development of environmentally benign products through the use of different ecodesign supports (i.e. tools or methods). Therefore, it is important to understand the desired characteristics of the ecodesign support from designer's perspective. Also, the priorities of designers from academia (design researchers) and industry (engineering designers) must be understood because they are the two stakeholders indulged in the development and usage of various ecodesign supports for environmentally conscious product development (ECPD).

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