A knowledge service framework for product-design activities

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Si ◽  
Yan Yan ◽  
Wang Zhao ◽  
Wang Guoxin ◽  
Zhao Yijing
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Knowledge Service ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Service Framework

Research on Extensible and Self-Adaptive Knowledge Service for Complex Product Design

2011 ◽  
Vol 58-60 ◽  
pp. 755-760
Author(s):  
Ze Biao Li ◽  
Xu Wei Pan ◽  
Xing Wang Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Complex Product ◽  
Knowledge Service ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Matter Element Model ◽  
Self Adaptive

To solve the difficulties in increasing large number of knowledge, with unstable irresponsible quality and acquiring automatically and implicitly dynamic individual knowledge needs of designers, an approach of knowledge service implementation in complex product design (CPD) process is put forward. The knowledge affair-matter-element model is proposed, achieving the organic integration between knowledge and design activities. Finally, the method of extensible knowledge optimization and the method of self-adaptive knowledge service are discussed.

A New User Implicit Requirements Process Method Oriented to Product Design

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Guo ◽  
Chengqi Xue ◽  
Mingjiu Yu ◽  
Zhangfan Shen
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
User Requirement ◽  
Service Platform ◽  
Design And Optimization ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Cloud Service Platform

User requirements play an important role in product design activities. Customer satisfaction has a direct bearing on the acquisition of user requirements for product design. However, these implicit requirements are equipped with the attributes of potentiality, fuzziness, and subjectivity. In this paper, a new implicit user requirement processing method based on a cloud service platform is proposed to resolve the difficulty of acquiring implicit requirements. Initially, this method collects user requirement data via a metaphor extraction technique using a cloud service platform. Then, the requirement data are clustered and mapped with product attributes. Finally, the mapping results are visualized to intuitively instruct product design and optimization. Overall, the method is a user-centered innovation paradigm implemented on a cloud service platform to realize collaborative design and resource sharing. Finally, an application case is presented to illustrate the method, and the results indicate that the method is effective and could serve as a reference for product design.

A Cooperative-Collaborative Design System for Multi-Disciplinary Mechanical Design

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiqiang Chen ◽  
Zahed Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Mechanical Design ◽  
System Level ◽  
Design System ◽  
Design Collaboration ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Design Process Model

The emergence of computer and network technology has provided opportunities for researchers to construct and build systems to support dynamic, real-time, and collaborative engineering design in a concurrent manner. This paper provides an understanding of the product design in a distributed environment where designers are in different geographic locations and are required to be involved in the design process to ensure successful product design. A design process model that captures the major interactions among stakeholders is presented, based on the observation of cooperation and collaboration. The stakeholders’ interactions are divided into activity and system level to distinguish the interactions in group design activities and design perspective evolution. An initial computer implementation of the design model is presented. The design system consists of a set of tools associated with design and a management system to facilitate distributed designers to support various design activities, especially conceptual design. Our research emphasis of design collaboration in this paper is: (i) Model a Cooperative-collaborative design process; (ii) Support synchronized design activities; and (iii) Structure the complex relations of various design perspectives from engineering disciplines.

The Effect of Product Design Activities on Commercial Success Levels of New Industrial Products

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Hise ◽  
Larry O'Neal ◽  
James U. McNeal ◽  
A. Parasuraman
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Industrial Products ◽  
Commercial Success ◽  
Design Activities

Evolving product form designs using parametric shape grammars integrated with genetic programming

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho Cheong Lee ◽  
Ming Xi Tang
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Shape Grammars ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Computational Framework ◽  
Design Exploration ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Set Up

AbstractThe two critical issues related to product design exploration are addressed: the balance between stylistic consistency and innovation, and the control of design process under a great diversity of requirements. To address these two issues, the view of understanding product design exploration is first sought. In this view, the exploration of designs is not only categorized as a problem-solving activity but also as a problem-finding activity. A computational framework is developed based on this view, and it encompasses the belief that these two activities go hand in hand to accomplish the design tasks in an interactive design environment. The framework adopts an integration approach of two key computational techniques, shape grammars and evolutionary computing, for addressing the above two critical issues. For the issues of stylistic consistency, this paper focuses on the computational techniques in balancing the conflicts of stylistic consistency and innovation with shape grammars. For the issues of controlling design process, the practical concerns of monitoring the design process through various activities starting from the preparation works to the implementation of shape grammars have been emphasized in the development of this framework. To evaluate the effectiveness of the framework, the experiments have been set up to reflect the practical situations with which the designers have to deal. The system generates a number of models from scratch with numerical analysis that can be evaluated effectively by the designers. This reduces the designers' time and allows the designers to concentrate their efforts on performing higher level of design activities such as evaluation of designs and making design decisions.

STRATEGIC GROUPS, PERFORMANCE, AND ISSUES RELATED TO PRODUCT DESIGN STRATEGY

2005 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 133-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEN-CHIH CHANG ◽  
YEN HSU
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Aggressive Response ◽  
Strategic Groups ◽  
Passive Response ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Home Appliance

This study examined design cases involving new product development related to Taiwanese home appliance firms for exploring the strategic groups formed by local firms and their performance in new product development and other issues related to product design strategy. The questionnaire survey demonstrates that Taiwanese home appliance firms, in terms of product design strategy, can be grouped into passive response, aggressive response, and R&D focus groups. In their response to the challenges faced following Taiwan joining the WTO, firms in different strategic groups exhibited different financial and non-financial performance. Furthermore, they differed significantly in dealing with product design activities, particularly new product development types, product design features, motivations, and design appeals. Differences in these aspects may be the reason for their differences in new product development performance.

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