Flexible and robust CAD models for design automation

Amadori, Kristian; Tarkian, Mehdi; Ölvander, Johan; Krus, Petter

doi:10.1016/j.aei.2012.01.004

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“…Contrary to the common notion that design automation is mainly applicable for repetitive design tasks (e.g. [7,13,16]), the cases studies demonstrated that creative design tasks can also benefit from design automation. Company representatives at DELTA reported how their engineers deliberately retrieve former projects stored in an engineering database and use them as inspiration for creating new order-specific solutions.…”

Section: Summary and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…More recently, the term has increasingly been applied when referring to the automation of design-related tasks in the field of mechanical engineering [6,7,10,13,16,39]. There exists no general consensus on the definition of design automation in the literature (see [7,10,16,29,40]).…”

Section: Design Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Design automation is predominantly seen as an approach for minimizing the effort required for repetitive design tasks [7,13,16]. However, engineering ETO products encompasses the execution of both repetitive and creative design tasks.…”

Section: Engineer-to-ordermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…system architecture, product modeling) are well researched [9,[13][14][15], studies related to organizational and managerial requirements of design automation are hardly available [16,17]. Researchers particularly emphasize the need for a framework guiding the design automation process and supporting the identification of design automation opportunities [7,16].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Establishing a maturity model for design automation in sales-delivery processes of ETO products

Willner

Gosling

Schönsleben

2016

Computers in Industry

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Short delivery times are considered a competitive advantage in the engineer-to-order (ETO) sector. Design-related tasks contribute to a substantial amount of delivery times and costs since ETO products have to be either fully developed or adapted to customer specifications within tendering or order fulfillment. Approaches aiming at a computerised automation of tasks related to the design process, often termed design automation or knowledge-based engineering, are generally regarded as an effective means to achieve lead time and cost reductions while maintaining, or even improving product quality. In this study we propose a maturity model as a framework for analyzing and improving such activities in ETO companies.We contribute to the literature in being the first to investigate design automation in the ETO sector from a maturity perspective. Beyond that, we extend the extant literature on design automation, which is of a highly technical nature, by providing a framework considering organizational and managerial aspects. The findings indicate that five different levels of maturity can be achieved across the dimensions strategies, processes, systems, and people.Empirical cases give insight into these different levels. Our investigation draws from extant literature and a comparative case study involving four companies over two years.

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Establishing a maturity model for design automation in sales-delivery processes of ETO products

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Gosling

Schönsleben

2016

Computers in Industry

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“…The most common applications in industry are various forms of configuration systems (Claesson, 2006;Hvam et al, 2008), but there are also many applications regarding parametric component design (Cederfeldt and Sunnersjö, 2003;Amadori et al, 2012), structural analysis tasks (Isaksson, 2003;Boart, 2007) and systems of a more generative nature (Ryhänen, 2004;Elgh and Cedefeldt, 2007;Elgh, 2012). There are mainly three classes of systems, either are they based upon the configuration of a set of predefined product modules and attributes (configuration systems), or the automation of different engineering tasks generating a product definition (design automation), or the definition of rules representing engineering knowledge which operates on a parametric geometry model (knowledge-based engineering, KBE).…”

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Traceability of Decisions in Product Realization Processes of Custom Engineered Products

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Johansson²,

Pookrkiany³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference

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Custom engineered products require an engineer-to-order approach in development, quotation preparation and order processing. This work reports the result of a three-and-a-half-year project were the objective was to develop means for implementation and management of computer support for engineering design and production engineering of customized products. Efficient re-use is essential for success and decision is identified as the core concept to trace tasks executed, knowledge used, design rationale and artefacts developed throughout the product realization process.

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Automated Knowledge‐Based Design for Additive Manufacturing: A Case Study with Flow Manifolds

Biedermann

Beutler

Meboldt

2022

Chemie Ingenieur Technik

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Additive manufacturing (AM) enables novel process equipment devices. However, the manual 3D design of complex part geometries is frequently challenging as designers need to fulfill functional requirements and consider the restrictions of AM. One promising approach is to automatically generate the design of parts. This work aims to introduce such an automated design approach to practitioners in the area of process engineering. The work describes the basic steps required to develop an automated, knowledge‐based design tool for AM and demonstrates the approach using a case study on flow manifolds.

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Flexible and robust CAD models for design automation

Cited by 112 publications

References 25 publications

Establishing a maturity model for design automation in sales-delivery processes of ETO products

Establishing a maturity model for design automation in sales-delivery processes of ETO products

Traceability of Decisions in Product Realization Processes of Custom Engineered Products

Automated Knowledge‐Based Design for Additive Manufacturing: A Case Study with Flow Manifolds

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