Integrated product development based on foreseeing life-cycle consequences
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32972/dms.2016.009Keywords:
mechanical design, DFX, Computer Aided Design, Product Development MetricsAbstract
During product development, there is a phenomena that is continuously present, whether stakeholders are aware of it or not. This phenomena concerns the generation of Life-Cycle Consequences (LCCs) with design decision commitments. The understanding of this phenomena and how consequences are generated has been exploited to develop the ‘Knowledge of Life Cycle Consequences’ Approach. Evaluations performed via a number of computational prototypes based on this approach have repeatedly concluded that this approach allows designers to foresee consequences spanning multiple life phases. This approach thus promotes Design Synthesis for Multi-X, which is fundamentally different from an approach using multiple, standalone DFX methods. Thus the approach developed contributes a means of how to achieve integrated product development.
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