scholarly journals Modeling and Simulation Study of Two-Phase Collaborative Behaviors Oriented to Open Source Design Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Shuo Zhang ◽  
Yingzi Li
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Partner Selection ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Structure Evolution ◽  
Behavior Model ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Multiagent Simulation ◽  
Collaborative Behavior

Open source design (OSD) is an emerging cluster design mode based on Internet, and it takes full advantage of knowledge, technology, and resources among designers to promote product development. In this mode, designers’ behaviors of collaboration have important influence on product development process. In this paper, firstly collaboration flow including two types of collaboration relations between designers in open source design is depicted. Secondly, two-phase collaborative behavior model including partner selection and response is built by means of utility functions. At last, simulation experiment including 4 scenarios is designed based on open source project of mobile phone and conducted by multiagent simulation, and contrastive analysis is carried out to study collaboration behaviors’ impact on open source design process. The results show that the two-phase collaborative behavior model elaborately describes structure evolution of Open Source Community (OSC) as well as designers’ collaboration behaviors and that different ways of partner selection behaviors have significant impact on the evolution of OSD process as well as OSC structure. Furthermore, the results suggest that designers should better consider more the factor of matching degree between designers but less collaboration record.

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.

scholarly journals Customized Product Development Supported by Integrated Information

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitja Varl ◽  
Jože Duhovnik ◽  
Jože Tavčar
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Robust Design ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Large Power ◽  
Product Customization ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Overall Effectiveness

Information systems are key enablers for the integration and reliable management of the product development process. Information systems are the backbone that connects various sub-processes and enables flexible product customization. Fast, robust, and cost-efficient product adaptation is especially important in one-of-a-kind production. This paper presents a transformation of the product development design process for large power transformers into a competitive and smartly supported process. One-of-a-kind production is specific, as each product must be customized, wherefore a robust design process well supported by IT plays a key role in creating a digital twin and the product’s final value. Based on a systematic analysis of the sample company, this paper proposes a model for the complete renewal of information systems and of working methodology, where reorganization is demonstrated in an increase of overall effectiveness.

System Design Analytics with Low-Fidelity Models

2021 ◽  
pp. 359-385
Author(s):  
Asko Ellman ◽  
Petter Krus
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
System Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
Iterative Design

Establishing product requirements for the customer is usually the first step in the product development process. Indeed, identifying and fulfilling customer requirements is the key for successful product development. However, satisfying all the customer requirements is not always possible. Therefore, the best design is the design that fulfils a set of the most important customer requirements. Due to this, design process needs to be agile and iterative. Design and its requirements need to be effectively iterated.

Autogenetic Design Theory: A Contribution to an Extended Design Theory

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sándor Vajna ◽  
Tibor Bercsey ◽  
Steffen Clement ◽  
Peter Mack
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Evolutionary Algorithm ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Design Theories

Abstract Based on an analysis of the product development process and the study of relevant product development models, the paper presents a new approach aiming at modeling and supporting the design activity as the substantial activity within the product development process. The Autogenetic Design Theory is an approach advancing general design theories. It facilitates the integration of intuition, creativity and artificial intelligence into the conventional design process. To this end, a phase-like allocation of the design process is assumed as the essential structure and an evolutionary algorithm is integrated as the core facilitating purposeful searching and combining. Hence, the flow of the design process can be influenced as all requirements can be included and, on the other hand, intuition and creativity are ensured through the evolutionary algorithm.

A Discrete Differential Evolution Algorithm for Product Development Scheduling

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarayut Nonsiri ◽  
Eric Coatanea ◽  
Mohamed Bakhouya
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Differential Evolution ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Differential Evolution Algorithm ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Discrete Differential Evolution

The scheduling of the design activities in product development process is a crucial step in early stages in order to achieve the project in time and cost-effective manner. In complex product development process, many dependency relationships or feedback loop could exist between design activities with multiple technical domains. Sequencing the design activities is a decision making process in order to reduce these feedback loops, and therefore, reduce amount of required information flows between activities. In recent years, methods for sequencing the design activities in design process have been proposed in order to reduce lead-time development and cost. The purpose of this research work is to present a methodology for design process sequencing in product development project by using Design Structure Matrix (DSM) for visualization a complex process and Discrete Differential Evolution (DDE) for sequencing the design tasks. The tests performed in this article have shown that this approach provides very competitive results in term of the quality of obtained solutions when compared to Genetic algorithms (GA). In additional it is a simple, effective and easy to use since the amount of control parameters to set is reduced.

A Research of Electromechanical Products Green Design Based on Voice of Customer

2014 ◽  
Vol 722 ◽  
pp. 423-425
Author(s):  
Xi Yin Lou
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Green Design ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Customer Demand ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Electromechanical Products ◽  
Successful Design ◽  
Voice Of Customer

The customer is the starting point for green design of electromechanical product demand, also the bridge of connecting to the market and the mechanical and electrical product development process. Enterprises effectively obtain and understand customer needs, and accurately define the demand information of mechanical and electrical products in the design process, which is the necessary precondition for the successful design of mechanical and electrical products in the global market environment. The designer obtains accurately and effectively information of demand of mechanical and electrical products, which is an important link of product design process. It will also directly affect the subsequent steps in the process of product development. Therefore, all aspects of mechanical and electrical products manufacturing enterprises work should depend on customer demand. To meet the design idea of customer demand should be fully integrated into every link in the development of mechanical and electrical products. Enterprise can not only shorten the time of mechanical and electrical products, but also have a significant impact on the design of mechanical and electrical products quality.

Benchmarking Within the Product Development Process

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Meeker ◽  
Anna C. Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Information ◽  
Detail Design ◽  
Market Trends ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Novel Design

Abstract One cannot design in a vacuum; the goodness of a product is almost always (except in the case of a novel design) measured with respect to an existing design. It is logical, therefore, to have a design process that takes competitors into account. Competitor’s hardware is a rich source of design information providing concept and design solutions, current market trends, cost and quality drivers, missing functionality and unwanted functionality. This paper presents a methodology to systematically evaluate existing designs using a process called benchmarking. In addition, a methodology for incorporating the benchmark information into the specification, concept, embodiment, detail design phases of the product development process is described.

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.

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.

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