The Mechanical Design Process
Contents
- Why Study The Design Process?
- Introduction
- Measuring The Design Process With Product
- Cost, Quality, And Time To Market
- The History Of The Design Process
- The Life Of A Product
- The Many Solutions For Design
- Problems
- The Basic Actions Of Problem Solving
- Knowledge And Learning During Design
- Design For Sustainability
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- Chapter
- Understanding Mechanical
- Design
- Introduction
Importance Of Product Function, Behavior,
- And Performance
- Mechanical Design Languages
- And Abstraction
- Different Types Of Mechanical
- Design Problems
- Constraints, Goals, And
- Design Decisions
- Product Decomposition
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- On The Web
- Chapter
- Designers And Design Teams
- Introduction
- The Individual Designer: A Model Of Human
- Information Processing
- Mental Processes That Occur
- During Design
- Characteristics Of Creators
- The Structure Of Design Teams
- Building Design Team Performance
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- On The Web
- The Mechanical Design Process
The Design Process And Product
- Discovery
- Introduction
- Overview Of The Design Process
- Designing Quality Into Products
- Product Discovery
- Choosing A Project
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- On The Web
- Chapter
- Planning For Design
- Introduction
- Types Of Project Plans
- Planning For Deliverables
The Development Of Information
- Building A Plan
- Design Plan Examples
- Communication During The
- Design Process
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- On The Web
- Chapter
- Understanding The Problem And
- The Development Of Engineering
- Specifications
- Introduction
- Step : Identify The Customers:
- Who Are They?
- Step : Determine The Customers’
- Requirements: What Do The Customers
- Want?
- Step : Determine Relative Importance Of The
- Requirements: Who Versus What
- The Mechanical Design Process
Step : Identify And Evaluate The Competition:
- How Satisfied Are The Customers Now?
- Step : Generate Engineering
- Specifications: How Will The Customers’
- Requirement Be Met?
- Step : Relate Customers’ Requirements To
- Engineering Specifications: How To Measure
- What?
- Step : Set Engineering Specification Targets
- And Importance: How Much Is Good
- Enough?
- Step : Identify Relationships Between
- Engineering Specifications: How Are The
- Hows Dependent On Each Other?
- Further Comments On Qfd
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- On The Web
- Chapter
- Concept Generation
- Introduction
- Understanding The Function Of Existing
- Devices
- Atechnique For Designing With Function
- Basic Methods Of Generating Concepts
- Patents As A Source Of Ideas
- Using Contradictions To Generate Ideas
- The Theory Of Inventive Machines, Triz
- Building A Morphology
- Other Important Concerns During Concept
- Generation
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- On The Web
- Chapter
- Concept Evaluation And
- Selection
- Introduction
- The Mechanical Design Process
Concept Evaluation Information
- Feasibility Evaluations
- Technology Readiness
- The Decision Matrix—Pugh’s Method
- Product, Project, And Decision Risk
- Robust Decision Making
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- On The Web
- Chapter
- Product Generation
- Introduction
- Boms
- Form Generation
- Materials And Process Selection
- Vendor Development
- Generating A Suspension Design For The
- Marin Mount Vision Pro Bicycle
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- On The Web
- Chapter
- Product Evaluation For
- Performance And The Effects
- Of Variation
- Introduction
- Monitoring Functional Change
- The Goals Of Performance Evaluation
- Tradeoff Management
- Accuracy, Variation, And Noise
- Modeling For Performance Evaluation
- Tolerance Analysis
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Robust Design By Analysis
- Robust Design Through Testing
- The Mechanical Design Process
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
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