scholarly journals Exploring Students' Product Design Concept Generation and Development Practices

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Woo Lee ◽  
Shanna Daly ◽  
Varghese Vadakumcherry
Author(s):  
Matt R. Bohm ◽  
Karl R. Haapala ◽  
Kerry Poppa ◽  
Robert B. Stone ◽  
Irem Y. Tumer

This paper describes efforts taken to further transition life cycle analysis techniques from the latter, more detailed phases of design, to the early-on conceptual phase of product development. By using modern design methodologies such as automated concept generation and an archive of product design knowledge, known as the Design Repository, virtual concepts are created and specified. Streamlined life cycle analysis techniques are then used to determine the environmental impacts of the virtual concepts. As a means to benchmark the virtual results, analogous real-life products that have functional and component similarities are identified. The identified products are then scrutinized to determine their material composition and manufacturing attributes in order to perform an additional round of life cycle analysis for the actual products. The results of this research show that enough information exists within the conceptual phase of design (utilizing the Design Repository) to reasonably predict the relative environmental impacts of actual products based on virtual concepts.


2013 ◽  
Vol 739 ◽  
pp. 684-688
Author(s):  
Yuan Liu

Composite product design is becoming a consumption ideology. It is formed with the changes of the modernity of the consumers, is developed according to the modern values and is the inevitable consequence of social development. The article clarifies the design concept of Composite Running Washing Machine from three aspects. First of all, we decide the product orientation and appearance shape design according to consumers, consumer demand and mechanical combination principle. Secondly, we grasp the influence of material quality on the whole visual effect according to what mental feelings on us of the character of the material and visual effects. Eventually, we explains the design concept of humanism from the perfect combination of functions and details. Thus the design shows great respect and care for human beings.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
W. B. Lee ◽  
W. M. Wang ◽  
C. F. Cheung ◽  
Z. H. Wu

Industrial and product design involves a lot of unstructured information for the generation of innovative product design ideas. However, the generation of innovative design concepts is not only time consuming but also heavily relies on the experience of product designers. Most existing systems focus mainly on the technical aspects of realizing product designs, which are inadequate to support concept generation process at the pre-design stage. In this paper, a knowledge extraction and design support system (KEDSS) is presented. The system aims at extracting key design concepts and depicting the trends of these concepts from the massive amount of unstructured design information in the open domain. A summary report, a related concept list, and concept trend graphs are produced based on the inputs of the designers' design ideas. A series of experiments have been conducted to measure the performance of the system. Moreover, the system has been successfully trial implemented as part of a public service platform for modern industrial design of injection molding machinery and equipment.


2014 ◽  
Vol 548-549 ◽  
pp. 1901-1904
Author(s):  
Yusoff Way ◽  
M. Azrai ◽  
A. Hadi Mohamad

The aims of this research is to improve the design of IV cannula stopper or also known as heparin cap by utilizing the application of product design and development approach and employing Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) machine. For this reason, the user requirements to identified target specifications and concept generation were proposed and the IV cannula stopper prototypes were fabricated using Rapid Prototyping technology (RP). This research would give an improvement over existing standard of IV cannula. The generated design from this research will improve the handling of IV cannula as well as ensuring its safety during the operation of IV cannula.


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