The Appropriate Use of CFD in the Automotive Design Process

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Gaylard
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Automotive Design

Mobilizing for Routine-based Innovation: NewCar’s Manual Shifter Redesign Initiative

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Obstfeld
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Automotive Design ◽  
Knowledge Processes ◽  
Support For Innovation ◽  
Relevant Context ◽  
Knowledge Articulation ◽  
Successful Innovation ◽  
Innovative Action ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Three Phases

This chapter illustrates the BKAP model with an extended ethnographic case to show how network and knowledge processes interact to produce routine-based innovative action over time. The chapter first provides relevant context for the automotive design process, after which the author walks through the extended case in three phases of activity and analysis: the first phase involves disruption of the existing design routine and the initial challenges experienced by the manual shifter “crunch team” in its efforts to respond to that disruption; the second and third phases contrast two pairs of actors (two engineers and two sets of designers) who attempt to mobilize support for innovation. In both phase two and phase three, successful innovation advocates mobilized action through brokerage and knowledge articulation to get new things done.

scholarly journals The configuration and experience mapping of an accessible VR environment for effective design reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-400
Author(s):  
Andrew Wodehouse ◽  
Brian Loudon ◽  
Lewis Urquhart
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Review Sessions ◽  
Effective Design ◽  
Human Centred Design

AbstractThis paper presents a new VR interaction environment for the evaluation of digital prototypes, specifically in designer–client review sessions, and documents its implementation via experience mapping. Usability of VR controllers and basic manipulation remains a barrier for lay users, and a range of typical implementations are reviewed, highlighting the need for an easily accessible interface for this setting. The resulting interface configuration – the Control Carousel – demonstrates how the appropriate use of familiar mechanisms can increase VR accessibility. Three case studies using the Carousel in commercial design projects are described, and the subsequent interface refinements outlined. Finally, the development of an experience map describing the logistical, interactive, and emotive factors affecting the Carousel's implementation is documented. This provides insights on how experience mapping can be used as part of a human-centred design process to ensure VR environments are attuned to the requirements of users, in this instance delivering improved collaborative reviews.

Stimulating appropriate uses of simulation in design

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
JAMES J. ROSENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Simulation Based

This article addresses the issue of educating undergraduate engineering students in the appropriate use of computer simulation in the design process. The premise that poorly designed assignments involving simulation can actually impair understanding is addressed. A set of goals for simulation-based exercises is suggested, and some tactics for meeting these goals are introduced. Finally, a specific example of a half-term assignment that is used to meet these goals is provided for illustration.

Case Study Regarding Functional Design Based on Knowledge Databases Achievements

2016 ◽  
Vol 834 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Manuela Roxana Dijmărescu
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Transport Mechanism ◽  
Implicit Knowledge ◽  
Functional Design ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Development Issue ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Product Design Process

When dealing with a specific development issue, designers have at their disposal a wide range of skills and their implicit knowledge, enabling them to conceptualize the appropriate solution pertaining to the problem. In developing and applying these solutions, the efficiency of the designers is often dependent on their appropriate use of analysis and creativity skills, their experience, as well as the existing knowledge stored in the company or other accessible databases. This paper presents a case study on a containers transport mechanism in order to highlight the activities, used tools and the advantages considered for the functional design based on functional-constructive knowledge stored in databases as a main phase of a new advanced product design process.

Research on Inverse Form Innovation Design for ATSE with Dual Power Supply

2014 ◽  
Vol 548-549 ◽  
pp. 801-805
Author(s):  
Hong Yang ◽  
Zhe Zhang ◽  
Ya Luo
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Economic Rationality ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Inverse Form ◽  
Dual Power

In order to promote improvement in the applicability, quality and economic rationality for ATSE with dual power supply, the design method based on the notion of inverse form is proposed in this paper. The component-based inverse form innovation design concept for ATSE with dual power supply is discussed by theoretical analysis and applicable study with two examples, after this paper expresses the importance of product innovation design, including innovation design of ATSE with dual power supply. Especially, ATSE innovation design process with component-based inverse form is researched in detail. Next, some useful and basic advices on how to optimize ATSE products by the notion of inverse form are stated. At the same time, this paper also points out that the structure of ATSE product becomes more reasonable by appropriate use of the innovation design method with inverse form.

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