The Contribution of Ergonomic Analysis in the Product Design for Recycling

2011 ◽  
pp. 365-378
Author(s):  
Eduardo Romeiro Filho ◽  
Rose Mary Rosa de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design For Environment ◽  
Design For X ◽  
Design For Recycling ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Ergonomic Analysis ◽  
Environmental Demands

This chapter presents a case study about approaches dealing with Design for “X” (DFX), with emphasis on Design for Environment (DFE), specifically Design for Recycling (DFR) and Design for Disassembly (DFD), in a particular social and economic situation, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This approach is justified by the necessity of considering the environmental demands in the production process as well as the information about social demands needed by the designers in the product development process. This research shows that the products are designed only for adaptation on the production process and the demands of consumers. Having the environmental questions in mind, the designers need also consider how to disassembly these products to realize a possibility of recycling.

scholarly journals APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF TARGET PROCESS MODULE SETS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
Albert Albers ◽  
Miriam Wilmsen ◽  
Kilian Gericke
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Quality ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Adaptive Processes

AbstractThe implementation of agile frameworks, such as SAFe, in large companies causes conflicts between the overall product development process with a rigid linkage to the calendar cycles and the continuous agile project planning. To resolve these conflicts, adaptive processes can be used to support the creation of realistic target-processes, i.e. project plans, while stabilizing process quality and simplifying process management. This enables the usage of standardisation methods and module sets for design processes.The objective of this contribution is to support project managers to create realistic target-processes through the usage of target-process module sets. These target-process module sets also aim to stabilize process quality and to simplify process management. This contribution provides an approach for the development and application of target-process module sets, in accordance to previously gathered requirements and evaluates the approach within a case study with project managers at AUDI AG (N=21) and an interview study with process authors (N=4) from three different companies.

scholarly journals TOWARDS BEST PRACTICES IN THE ENGINEER-TO-ORDER BUSINESS: A FRAMEWORK FOR THE STRUCTURED ANALYSIS OF COMMISSIONING PROCESSES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1017-1026
Author(s):  
G. O. Mueller ◽  
C. A. Bertram ◽  
N. H. Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Structured Analysis ◽  
Engineer To Order ◽  
Customer Demands

AbstractEngineer-To-Order (ETO) companies develop complex one-of-a-kind products based on specific customer demands. Given the product uniqueness, the commissioning plays an important role in the product development process. However, the project variety and low data availability hinder the analysis of the commissioning processes. This paper proposes a framework for the structured analysis of commissioning processes in ETO companies by analysing the impacts from product requirements and design on the commissioning performance. A case study presents the practical application of the developed framework.

scholarly journals Improving Overlapping Between Testing and Design in Engineering Product Development Processes

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khadija Tahera ◽  
Chris Earl ◽  
Claudia Eckert
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Significant Activity ◽  
Engineering Product ◽  
Virtual Testing ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Physical Tests

Testing components, prototypes and products comprise essential, but time consuming activities throughout the product development process particularly for complex iteratively designed products. To reduce product development time, testing and design processes are often overlapped. A key research question is how this overlapping can be planned and managed to minimise risks and costs. The first part of this research study investigates how a case study company plans testing and design processes and how they manage these overlaps. The second part of the study proposes a significant modification to the existing process configuration for design and testing, which explicitly identifies virtual testing, that is an extension to Computer Aided Engineering which mirrors the testing process through product modelling and simulation, as a distinct and significant activity used to (a) enhance and (b) replace some physical tests. The analysis shows how virtual testing can mediate information flows between overlapping (re)design and physical tests. The effects of virtual testing to support overlap of test and (re)design is analysed for the development phases of diesel engine design at a case study company. We assess the costs and risks of overlaps and their amelioration through targeted virtual testing. Finally, using the analysis of the complex interactions between (re)design, physical and virtual testing, and the scope for replacing physical with virtual testing is examined.

Improving the Quality of Information Flows in the Backend of a Product Development Process: a Case Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaring Boersma ◽  
Gabriel Loke ◽  
Valia T. Petkova ◽  
Peter C. Sander ◽  
Aarnout C. Brombacher
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Quality Of Information

scholarly journals Improving the Availability of Manufacturability Information through Decentralization of Process Planning

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-117
Author(s):  
Eliab Z Opiyo
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Process Planning ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Detail Design ◽  
Planning Phase ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Prototype Software

Process planning is part of the general product development and production process that usually follows design and precedes manufacturing. Manufacturability and process planning information in general play central role in many product development and production activities, including paradoxically, conceptual and detail design - the activities that take place before process planning. The need of conducting some of the process planning activities formally before or during design is thus rather obvious. One of the main research issues is therefore the identification of the process planning activities that can be performed before the traditional process planning phase and handling of the process planning information so as to adequately provide the designers with the manufacturability informationneeded during conceptual and detail design. Another issue is how to support collaboration during process planning and how to maintain continuity of the process planning tasks. This paper suggests the decentralization of the process planning task and proposes the execution of the process planning activities in a piecemeal fashion, starting right afterreceiving an order and specifying the requirements for a product. Process planning under the proposed procedure consists of six semi-autonomous sub-phases, some of which comprise activities that must be conducted prior to the process planning phase. This helps to overcome the problem of timely availability of manufacturability information during the execution of upstream and downstream product development and production activities. The paper alsoproposes a computer-based method of handling the manufacturability information generated in various stages of the product development and production process. A database design and structure of prototype software that manages the process planning information are presented and discussed. Furthermore, a case study conducted to explore howthe proposed process planning procedure could be put in use is presented and discussed.

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