Integrated Design and Exploration of Product and Material Concepts
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Beschreibung
Designers are challenged to manage customer, technology, and socio-economic
uncertainty causing dynamic, unquenchable demands on limited resources. In
this context, increased concept fl exibility, referring to a designer’s ability to create
concepts, is crucial. Concept fl exibility can be signifi cantly increased through the
integrated design and exploration of product and material concepts. Hence, the
challenge is to leverage knowledge of material structure-property relations that
signifi cantly affect system concepts for function-based, systematic design of product
and materials concepts in an integrated fashion. However, having selected an integrated
product and material system concept, managing complexity in the embodiment
design-processes to follow is important. Facing a complex network of decisions
and evolving analysis models a designer needs the fl exibility to systematically
generate and evaluate embodiment design-process alternatives. In order to address
these challenges and respond to the primary research question of how to increase
a designer’s concept and design-process fl exibility to enhance product creation in
the conceptual and early embodiment design phases, the primary hypothesis in this
work is embodied as a systematic approach for integrated product, materials and
design-process design. The systematic approach consists of two components – i) a
function-based, systematic approach to the integrated design of product and material
concepts from a systems perspective, and ii) a systematic strategy to designprocess
generation and selection based on a decision-centric perspective and a
value-of-information-based Process Performance Indicator. The systematic approach
is validated using the validation-square approach that consists of theoretical and
empirical validation. Empirical validation of the framework is carried out using
various examples including: i) design of a reactive material containment system, and
ii) design of an optoelectronic communication system.
Autor*in
Matthias Messer