Industrial Design of a Narrow Aisle Sit-Down Lift Truck

1966 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip H. Stevens ◽  
David O. Chase ◽  
Alan W. Brownlie
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Design ◽  
Human Engineering ◽  
Materials Handling ◽  
Engineering Approach ◽  
Design Program

This report describes the industrial design and human engineering of a sit-down lift truck for narrow aisle warehouse materials handling applications. The objective of the design program was to develop a truck which would be (1) safe, efficient and comfortable to operate; (2) aesthetically appealing; (3) economical to manufacture and use; and (4) easy to maintain and service. A working mockup was constructed to demonstrate the feasibility of the engineering approach, and to validate human engineering, maintainability and safety provisions. Field use under varying conditions has confirmed that the concept of a seated position for the operator of a narrow aisle lift truck was a sound solution for reducing fatigue with no sacrifice in operator effectiveness.

scholarly journals Growing a Discipline

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 173-184
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Vischer ◽  
Tiiu Poldma
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Integrate Theory ◽  
Design Program ◽  
Pedagogical Models ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Critical Social

A variety of competing pedagogical orientations have accompanied the evolution of university-based Interior Design teaching. A review of relevant literature indicates that a range of pedagogical models are available, each rooted in a distinct design discipline such as architecture and industrial design. A new undergraduate Interior Design program is described, in order to demonstrate an approach to integrating theory and practice. Diverse teaching influences on the development of a course of study in Interior Design in the context of an established multi-disciplinary design faculty are illustrated. The new program’s pedagogical approach is demonstrated through an examination of the first and second year studio subjects. The paper concludes with a summary of the program’s strengths and weaknesses, and suggestions are made to promote ways to integrate theory and practice through broadening the theoretical discourse that could allow Interior Design to be explored through other relevant and critical social disciplines.

The Human Engineering Approach

1959 ◽  
Vol 63 (588) ◽  
pp. 688-689
Author(s):  
L. P. Coombes
Keyword(s):  
Operational Research ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Human Engineering ◽  
Dark Night ◽  
Engineering Approach

I claim to have no expert knowledge on landing aids, but the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Australia have done some work in this field. We were invited, or encouraged, to take up this branch of work by a Meeting of the Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council in Australia in 1955, when the difficulties of the landing phase and the need for some form of aid for the pilot were emphasised.I need say nothing about the difficulties of the pilot: they have already been amply emphasised. An early example of operational research in this field was an investigation made by Professor Collar in 1941 on the problem of the dark night take-off, when the pilot tends to mistake forward acceleration for a climb in the absence of sufficient external visual cues.

Packaging for People

1966 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Short ◽  
Robert J. Stovell
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Human Engineering ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Package Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Consumer Package ◽  
Intuitive Interpretation

The case histories presented in this paper illustrate the various marketing, technological and human factors requirements which influence the design of a relatively simple everyday artifact, the consumer package. During the past twenty years, package design has grown from modest beginnings to become one of the major areas of industrial design activity. Concerned with the protection, distribution, sales and use of products, the designer of the package must accommodate a number of different human interfaces, placing strong emphasis on the satisfaction of emotional as well as physical needs. Some packaging requirements are amenable to rational design solutions and the application of established human engineering criteria, but despite the growing use of a variety of research techniques, packaging relies, more than most other areas of industrial design, on limited empirical findings and the designer's intuitive interpretation of requirements.

scholarly journals Methodology for the abstraction and morphological experimentation of nature’s patterns: an application case of morphology research subject in Industrial Design program

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsie Arbeláez-Ochoa ◽  
David A. Torreblanca-Díaz ◽  
Karen Rodríguez-Castrillón ◽  
Daniela Muñoz-Noriega
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Design ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Design Program

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Teaching Process of Presenting Product Sketch Design of Industrial Design Program

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Pracha Pijukkana ◽  
Yanin Rugwongwan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Industrial Product ◽  
Support Design ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Academic Achievements ◽  
Design Program ◽  
Design Ideas

This research studies the teaching process of idea communication for industrial product design sketching. The objective of this research is to make a comparative study on the efficiency of two teaching processes between teaching with detailed information and teaching with conceptual frameworks for groups of students who have different learning aptitudes; which are an aptitude in theoretical subjects or an aptitude in practical subjects. The study also included differences in learning styles of the industrial design program undergraduate students. The researchers came up with an experiment of creating sketch design ideas for a product in which the researchers classified the students’ learning processes from curriculum subjects and academic achievements. The results found that curriculum subjects and students’ learning aptitude can be grouped into two major groups: students who have accumulated scores in theoretical subjects and students who have accumulated scores in practical subjects. These two groups of students have different aptitudes in sketch design idea communication processes: a process of sketching with given detailed information and a process of sketching with given conceptual framework. Although these are different processes, the teaching and learning of these two product design processes have the same objectives: to create design ideas and to support design creativity by using the concept of interaction between the brain, hands and shapes that appear on paper to present the sketch product and to guide the teaching and learning of industrial product design, suitable for students who have different characteristics and help increase their academic achievements.

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