- •1. TABLE OF CONTENTS
- •DI:2. BASIC DESIGN
- •DI:2.1 REFERENCES
- •DI:3. COMMERCIAL
- •3.1 REFERENCES
- •DI:4. PRODUCT DESIGN
- •DI:4.1 LEGAL DESIGN AXIOMS
- •4.2 REFERENCES
- •DI:5. SPECIFICATIONS
- •5.1 REFERENCES
- •DI:6. DESIGN METHODS
- •DI:6.1 BLACK BOX DESIGN
- •DI:6.2 REFERENCES
- •DI:7. CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
- •DI:7.1 GENERATION OF CONCEPTS
- •DI:7.1.1 Brain Storming
- •DI:7.1.1.1 - Practice Problems
- •DI:7.1.2 Diagramming
- •DI:7.1.2.1 - Practice Problems
- •DI:7.1.3 Patents
- •DI:7.2 CONCEPT EVALUATION
- •DI:7.2.1 Decision Matrix
- •7.3 REFERENCES
- •DI:8. HUMAN FACTORS/ERGONOMICS
- •DI:8.1 ERGONOMICS
- •DI:8.2 SAFETY
- •DI:8.2.1 Environment
- •DI:8.2.2 MIL-STD 882B - System Safety Program Requirements
- •DI:8.3 HUMAN STRENGTH AND PROPORTIONS
- •DI:8.4 EQUIPMENT INTERFACES
- •8.5 REFERENCES
- •DI:9. MANAGEMENT
- •DI:9.1 PRACTICE PROBLEMS
- •9.2 REFERENCES
- •DI:10. DESIGN TEAMS
- •DI:10.1 TEAM PROFILES
- •DI:10.1.1 Personalities
- •DI:10.1.1.1 - Personality Traits
- •DI:10.1.1.2 - Personality Types
- •DI:10.1.2 Team Composition
- •DI:10.1.3 Team Success
- •10.2 REFERENCES
- •DI:11. ADMINISTRATION
- •11.1 REFERENCES
- •DI:12. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
- •DI:12.1 OVERVIEW
- •DI:12.2 DOING CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
- •DI:12.3 FUTURE TOOLS FOR CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
- •DI:12.4 SOFTWARE CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
- •DI:12.5 METHODS
- •12.6 REFERENCES
- •DI:13. DESIGN FOR X (DFX)
- •DI:13.1 OVERVIEW
- •DI:13.2 DESIGN FOR ASSEMBLY (DFA)
- •DI:13.2.1 Design rule summary
- •DI:13.2.2 Rules for Manual/Automatic Assembly
- •DI:13.2.3 Reducing the Number of Parts
- •DI:13.2.4 Feeding and Orienting Parts
- •DI:13.2.4.1 - Part Tangling/Nesting
- •DI:13.2.4.2 - Handling Parts
- •DI:13.2.4.3 - Orienting Parts
- •DI:13.2.4.4 - Locating and Aligning Parts
- •DI:13.2.4.5 - Part Symmetry
- •DI:13.2.4.6 - Part Shape, Size and Thickness
- •DI:13.2.5 Mating Parts
- •DI:13.2.6 Adjustments
- •DI:13.2.7 Modular Assemblies
- •DI:13.2.8 Standard Parts
- •DI:13.2.9 Part Fixtures and Jigs
- •DI:13.2.10 Bottom Up Layered Assemblies
- •DI:13.2.11 Examples
- •DI:13.3 DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING (DFM)
- •DI:13.4 DESIGN FOR RECYCLING (DFR)
- •DI:13.4.1 Reduce Materials and Energy
- •DI:13.4.2 Consolidated Parts
- •DI:13.4.3 Ease Of Disassembly
- •DI:13.4.4 Recycling Markings
- •DI:13.5 REFERENCES
- •DI:13.6 SAMPLE QUESTIONS
- •DI:13.7 AXIOMATIC DESIGN
- •DI:13.7.1 Suh’s Methodology
- •DI:13.7.1.1 - The Information Axiom
- •DI:14. DRAFTING
- •DI:14.1 CONVENTIONAL DRAFTING
- •DI:14.1.1 Manual Drafting
- •DI:14.1.2 Turning Three Dimensions Into Two (Multi View Drawings)
- •DI:14.1.2.1 - The Glass Box
- •DI:14.1.3 Lines
- •DI:14.1.4 Holes
- •DI:14.1.5 Special Cases
- •DI:14.1.5.1 - Aligned Features
- •DI:14.1.5.2 - Incomplete Views
- •DI:14.1.6 Section Views
- •DI:14.1.6.1 - Full Sections
- •DI:14.1.6.2 - Offset Section
- •DI:14.1.6.3 - Half Section
- •DI:14.1.6.4 - Cut Away Sections
- •DI:14.1.6.5 - Revolved Section
- •DI:14.1.6.6 - Removed Section
- •DI:14.1.6.7 - Auxiliary Section
- •DI:14.1.6.8 - Thin Wall Section
- •DI:14.1.6.9 - Assembly Section
- •DI:14.1.6.10 - Special Cases
- •DI:14.1.6.11 - Fill Patterns
- •DI:14.1.7 Auxiliary Views
- •DI:14.1.7.1 - Secondary Auxiliary Views
- •DI:14.1.7.2 - Partial Auxiliary Views
- •DI:14.1.8 Descriptive Geometry
- •DI:14.1.9 Isometric Views
- •DI:14.1.10 Special Techniques
- •DI:14.2 NOTATIONS
- •DI:14.2.1 Basic Dimensions and Tolerances
- •DI:14.2.2 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD & T)
- •DI:14.2.2.1 - Feature Control Symbols
- •DI:14.2.2.2 - Symbols and Meaning
- •DI:14.2.2.3 - Datums
- •DI:14.2.2.4 - Modifiers
- •DI:14.3 WORKING DRAWINGS
- •DI:14.3.1 Drawing Elements
- •DI:14.3.1.1 - Title Blocks
- •DI:14.3.1.2 - Drawing Checking
- •DI:14.3.1.3 - Drawing Revisions
- •DI:14.3.1.4 - Bill of Materials (BOM)
- •DI:14.3.2 Drawing Types
- •DI:14.3.2.1 - Assembly Drawings
- •DI:14.3.2.2 - Subassembly Drawings
- •DI:14.3.2.3 - Exploded Assembly Drawings
- •DI:14.3.2.4 - Detailed Drawings
- •DI:14.4 PRACTICE PROBLEMS
- •14.5 REFERENCES
- •DI:15. COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (CAD)
- •DI:15.1 DESIGN
- •DI:15.2 CAD HISTORY
- •DI:15.3 BASIC REQUIREMENTS OF CAD SYSTEMS
- •DI:15.4 EDITING AND CREATING
- •DI:15.4.1 2D Curves and Lines
- •DI:15.4.2 Surfaces
- •DI:15.5 USER INTERPRETATION OF THE GEOMETRIC MODEL
- •DI:15.6 USER DIRECTED CHANGES TO THE GEOMETRIC MODEL
- •DI:15.6.1 Modern Hardware for CAD Systems
- •DI:15.7 SELECTING A CAD SYSTEM
- •DI:15.7.1 An Example Plan for Selecting a CAD system
- •DI:15.7.2 A Checklist of CAD/CAM System Features
- •DI:15.8 DESIGN
- •DI:15.8.1 Graphical User Interfaces
- •DI:15.9 PRACTICE PROBLEMS
- •DQ:16. GEOMETRICAL MODELLING OF PARTS
- •DQ:16.1 OVERVIEW
- •DQ:16.2 GEOMETRIC MODELS
- •DQ:16.2.1 Elemental Depiction:
- •DQ:16.2.2 Surface Description
- •DQ:16.2.3 Solid - Swept
- •DQ:16.2.4 Solid - B-Rep (Boundary Representation)
- •DQ:16.2.5 Solid - CSG
- •DQ:16.2.6 Tessellated Models
- •DQ:16.2.7 Features
- •DQ:16.3 SOLID MODELERS
- •DO:16.4 MASS PROPERTIES
- •DO:16.5 NON-MANIFOLD PARTS
- •DO:16.6 NUMERICAL ACCURACY
- •DO:16.7 PRACTICE PROBLEMS
- •DM:17. GEOMETRICAL MODELLING FOR DESIGN
- •DG:18. CAD FILE FORMATS
- •DG:18.1 GRAPHICS FORMATS
- •DG:18.2 CAD FORMATS
- •DG:18.2.1 Proprietary “Standard” Formats
- •DG:18.2.2 Standard Formats
- •DG:18.2.2.1 - IGES
- •DG:18.2.2.1.1 - Flag section (optional)
- •DG:18.2.2.1.2 - Start section
- •DG:18.2.2.2 - Global section
- •DG:18.2.2.3 - Directory entry sections
- •DG:18.2.2.4 - Parameter entry section
- •DG:18.2.2.5 - Terminate section
- •DG:18.2.2.6 - A Sample IGES File
- •DG:18.2.3 A DXF File
- •DG:18.3 PDES/STEP
- •DG:18.4 PRACTICE PROBLEMS
- •DC:19. COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING (CAE)
- •DC:19.1 FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA)
- •DC:19.2 ASSEMBLY AND KINEMATICS
- •DC:19.2.1 Tolerancing
- •DC:19.3 ASSEMBLIES
- •DC:19.4 OPTIMIZATION
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DI:2. BASIC DESIGN
•Before we begin,
1.Design is the satisfaction of need.
2.Design is never an exact process, and each design will differ.
3.Try to do it right the first time.
4.Most design methods try to cut the problems into smaller problems.
•One of the common problems encountered by designers is the overwhelming number of details. Most design methods focus on dealing with detail overload. The challenges a designer faces are,
- multiple technologies require arbitrary decisions
- a design will have many components that interact, and the effects of changes can be widespread
- economics
- other competitive designs
•Design is typically referred to as having certain stages,
-Conceptual
-Synthesis
-Detailed
-Analysis
•The typical stages of design include,
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Need
Specifications
feasibility
conceptual
detailed
analysis/testing
review
•Design factors commonly considered are,
-functional requirements
-physical constraints
-specifications
-aesthetics
-usability/user interface
-cost
-manufacturing
-evaluation/testing/analysis
-maintenance
-retirement
•A more detailed design sequence is shown below,
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START: select a needed design
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e.g 1/2” steel cable
e.g. find stress and compare to ultimate strength
e.g. use factor of safety
select values
and properties small changes e.g. diameter
analyze for suitability
decide on deficiencies
no deficiencies
DONE: Approve design
•Conceptual - The selection of general components to go into a system. At this point the exact form of final point is inexact. At this point we might be deciding to put wheels on a car.
•Synthesis - The selection of components or devices for the system. At this point the general geometry, and components for the system are selected.
•Detailed - Exact dimensions are finally assigned to parts in the system.
•Analysis - The review of design details to determine suitability. This is done after the exact design is complete. It may lead to redesign.
•The activity of design creates a dilemma for management in that it adds to the overall cost of a product, but it can also reduce the final cost of a product.
•We can draw graphs that illustrate the total amount committed in the final cost from the first concept, to the final product. Most of the final cost is determined by decisions early in the design phase.
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product costs
product starts shipping
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• By planning for design, and then committing fully, we can obtain a better product.
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•Over-the-wall is an engineering approach that has developed because of management pressures. It helps split designs into clean stages and responsibilities. This approach does simplify management up front, but requires fire fighting as problems arise.
•A product life cycle has four phases,
1.Identify needs, plan and design
2.Manufacture and deliver
3.Use, maintain, repair
4.Retire
DI:2.1 REFERENCES
Ullman, D.G., The Mechanical Design Process, McGraw-Hill, 1997.