INCORPORATING FIELD EFFECTS INTO THE DESIGN OF MODULAR PRODUCT FAMILIES
Paper in proceeding, 2023

With advancing digitalization, new technologies with more and more digital components make it necessary to integrate new components into current and future products. Sensors and actuators, such as motors, emit electromagnetic and thermal fields that can greatly affect product performance. Recent work has considered fields at the functional level using functional structures and at the system level using DSM. In this paper, the effects of fields on product architecture are investigated at the component level. Using an appropriate visualization, the impact of fields on the product structure is considered. Architectural guidelines are then used to develop suitable product structures. The methodological approach is then applied to a product family of vacuum cleaner robots. The overlaid field information helps to gain deeper insights into the product architecture. The approach is useful for representing alternative structures. The new mapping of functional and structural relationships by moving module boundaries against fields can help promote architectural innovation.

Product families

Design methods

Design for X (DfX)

Author

Jan Kuechenhof

Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH)

Markus C. Berschik

Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH)

Julia Beibl

Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH)

Iñigo Alonso Fernandez

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Kevin Otto

University of Melbourne

Dieter Krause

Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH)

Ola Isaksson

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Proceedings of the Design Society

2732527X (eISSN)

Vol. 3 2275-2284

24th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2023
Bordeaux, France,

Subject Categories

Other Mechanical Engineering

DOI

10.1017/pds.2023.228

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