Structured Modeling of Mechatronic Components Using Multiport Templates

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. Hales ◽  
Ronald C. Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Lead Time ◽  
New Product ◽  
Mechatronic System ◽  
Mechatronic Systems ◽  
Engineering Knowledge ◽  
Structured Modeling ◽  
Design Alternatives

Abstract Mathematical modeling of mechatronic systems is increasing in its importance to industry for product development. Mathematical modeling helps companies reduce the lead time for new product development, allows for consideration of more design alternatives, provides a means for capture of engineering knowledge, and facilitates sharing of engineering efforts with suppliers. Structured modeling further assists engineers in meeting these goals by supporting effective, clear communication of model information. This paper describes a modeling environment for mechatronic system design based on structured modeling concepts. Structured modeling is implemented using a multiport template approach. A multiport template allows the engineer to create new user-defined model types, which are in turn used to create computational instances. The focus is on mechatronic component modeling. Illustrations of the method are given.

Environmental Impact Evaluations on Product Design Alternatives Using the Combined Evidential Reasoning with Fuzzy Set

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 1750014
Author(s):  
C. Y. Ng ◽  
K. B. Chuah
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
New Product ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Evidential Reasoning ◽  
Uncertain Information ◽  
Design Alternatives

Owing to the rise of societal awareness and hence governmental quest for environmental conservation worldwide, environmental friendliness in products has become a critical design consideration for all manufacturers during new product development. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a comprehensive method to quantitatively assess the environmental burdens of products or services. However, such studies are difficult to carry out at the early product development process because of uncertain or limited product information. Also, LCA is a time and resource-consuming methodology. This paper proposes a shortcut approach to support product designers to carry out the environmental impact evaluations especially in the initial product development stage. This paper discusses the key challenges of implementing environmental impact evaluation in new product development. The combined Evidential Reasoning (ER) and Fuzzy Set Theory (FST) approach is applied to handle the uncertain information of the environmental data and deficiency of LCA. The result demonstrates the superiority of the combined ER and FST for evaluating several design alternatives while the uncertain information has been considered.

Advantages of Time-Based New Product Development in a Fast-Cycle Industry

1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srikant Datar ◽  
C. Clark Jordan ◽  
Sunder Kekre ◽  
Surendra Rajiv ◽  
Kannan Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Lead Time ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Volume Production ◽  
The Impact

The authors study the impact of time-based product development on sustainable market share gains in a high-technology computer component industry. Three dominant firms, with international new product development and manufacturing facilities, have introduced more than 200 new products into this fast-cycle market in a five-year period. The authors systematically examine the leads and lags at critical stages of the product development process: concept generation, prototype completion, and volume production. Their main finding is that lead-time advantage affects market share positively, albeit differentially, at each stage. The benefit of lead-time gain is greatest at the volume production stage, followed by the concept generation stage. The authors also develop a new notion of lead-time threshold—a time period in which if a competitor catches up, no market share gain is achieved by the firm that introduces the product first. They endogenously estimate the magnitude of the threshold for each stage of the product development process, observing that a significant threshold is present at both the concept generation and volume production stages. Finally, the structure of the development process, which differs across the firms in the market, affords significant differential ability to catch up with competitors.

THE PARTICULARITIES OF NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Fabio Shimabukuro Sandes ◽  
◽  
Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
New Product
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