Knowledge Base Formulation for Aided Design Tool

Pailhès, Jérôme; Sallaou, Mohammed; Nadeau, Jean-Pierre

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6761-7_16

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“…The evaluation of the impact of the induced and produced effects will determine the kind of action required for the solution of the problem [20]. This means that the design engineer can choose whether to act on the generation, transmission or interaction of the problem within the system, or in the overall system itself, in order to avoid the occurrence of detrimental effects such as the ones listed in Table 1.…”

Section: Problem Formalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heuristics-based design process

Calle-Escobar

Mejía-Gutiérrez

Nadeau

et al. 2014

Int J Interact Des Manuf

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This article explores the applicability of heuristic rules into the decision-making processes involved in design practices, with the aim of generating a strategic approach for the fixation, tangibilization and re-utilization of knowledge within organizations. For this purpose, the research focuses on the creation of a methodological approach and a support tool that seeks to facilitate the introduction of heuristics into particular stages of the design process, such as concept development and architecture definition. This is achieved by providing an initial analysis of the design problem, and the definition of specific problem solving actions based on heuristics. This means that, with the aid of tools specifically developed for the method, the process will help design engineers explore several solution principles with applications previously implemented in diverse domains, thus triggering creativity in problem solving activities. This will enable a more diverse concept generation and a more detailed product development process. In addition, it will allow organizations to work with tools and procedures for them to ensure that emerging knowledge can be integrated to the proposed approach and reused in the future.

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Section: Problem Formalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heuristics-based design process

Calle-Escobar

Mejía-Gutiérrez

Nadeau

et al. 2014

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“…Physical decomposition is mainly based on Product Breakdown Structure and Functional Block Diagram [20]. These tools are used so as to be consistent with energy harvesting issue, in autonomous microsystem design.…”

Section: Physical Decompositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive method for autonomous microsystem design

Dupé

Briand

2009

Int J Interact Des Manuf

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This paper describes a multidisciplinary and interactive approach for the design of autonomous microsystems. These devices satisfy the actual requirements in terms of size, cost and autonomy. This autonomy is obtained by harvesting the energy in microsystem environment. There is no denying that microsystem design requires multidisciplinary skills and necessitates collaboration between several groups with different fields of expertise. All aspects have to be considered to get a mechanically, electronically and energetically efficient structure, consistent with the specifications and the requirements of the problem. However, few designers are competent enough in all the involved engineering fields. Thereby, we propose a multidisciplinary and interactive approach for autonomous microsystem design. This method delves into several steps. It begins by a global description and analysis of the system in its environment. This problem structuring is mainly based on the use of tools of functional analysis. Then, the autonomous microsystem is modeled, with a special care on energy harvester design. The method is applied to energy harvester design for automotive braking system instrumentation. The interactive character is present through the consideration of interactions (cognitive, physical and sensory). Finally, the multidisciplinary aspect is ensured by the collaboration and the exchanges between designers and numeric tools.

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“…The energy model proposed by Pailhès (Pailhès 2013;Pailhès et al 2011;Pailhès, Sallaou, and Nadeau 2007) is based on the design theory of TRIZ (Altshuller 1984(Altshuller , 1999. TRIZ or 'theory of invention problem solving' contains a set of tools and methodologies for generating inventive solutions for design problems.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…CTOC creates a systematic functional decomposition of a system in transition from conceptual design phase to embodiment design phase. Moreover, in a product design process with complexities, this model can decompose the design problem into smaller thus more manageable sub-problems (Pailhès, Sallaou, and Nadeau 2007).…”

Section: Ctoc: An Energy Flow Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

A product functional modelling approach based on the energy flow by using characteristics-properties modelling

Malmiry¹,

Dantan²,

Pailhès³

et al. 2016

Journal of Engineering Design

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The main objective in designing a product is to satisfy the required needs. So, the designer aims to design the product's structure based on the required function of the product. Therefore, in the design process, the link between the functional requirement and the physical structure has to be assured. This paper proposes an approach to help the designer in transition from function to structure to assure this link. This approach uses energy flow modelling to model the system's behaviour in the framework of characteristics-properties modelling (CPM). It is composed of a multi-level modelling approach with two concurrent, interlinked modelling domains: functional and structural. By zigzagging between these two domains in each level of the decomposition, a quantitative model of the product is determined using CPM. The result shows the effective modifiable parameters (or required structure) of the product to satisfy the required function. So, it can be used to design a new product as well as analysing and optimising an existing product.

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Knowledge Base Formulation for Aided Design Tool

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Heuristics-based design process

Heuristics-based design process

Interactive method for autonomous microsystem design

A product functional modelling approach based on the energy flow by using characteristics-properties modelling

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