Kristof Berx, Michael Friedl, Maarten Witters, Peter Hehenberger,
"A customer requirement driven framework for design synthesis - applied to a washing machine"
: 15th Mechatronics Forum Internatioonal Conference, Loughborough, UK, Serie 7th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems MECHATRONICS 2016, Vol. 49, Seite(n) 431-438, 2016
Original Titel:
A customer requirement driven framework for design synthesis - applied to a washing machine
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
15th Mechatronics Forum Internatioonal Conference, Loughborough, UK
Original Kurzfassung:
In order to maximize the success of a product, the customers' wishes need to
be integrated into the entire product design process. The design of a mechatronic system
can be divided in a 3 dierent phases, requirements engineering, architectural design and
detailed design. During the requirement phase, customers needs are translated into engineering
characteristics. In the architectural phase, the topology, consisting of the number and type
of components, as well as some key properties (size, material) of the dierent components, is
chosen. This phase has a major impact on the nal product performance.
Since (mechatronic) products need to meet an ever increasing number of performance speci ca-
tions and constraints, recently computational design synthesis approaches have been developed
to support design engineers. These types of methods use computational power and computer
models to search the design space in an automatic way. However, as these methods focus entirely
on maximizing the functional performance, the customers' actual wishes and needs may slip to
the background.
This article presents a novel computational design synthesis approach which integrates design
space exploration and Quality Function Deployment during the architectural design phase. The
proposed method allows to generate architectures that maximize customer satisfaction. The
eectiveness is illustrated by an industrial case study: the design of the mechanical architecture
for a washing machine.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Serie:
7th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems MECHATRONICS 2016
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