Ergonomic Issues for Good Product Design

Novel Ergonomic Postural Assessment Method (NERPA) Using Product-Process Computer Aided Engineering for Ergonomic Workplace Design

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) that result from poor ergonomic design are one of the occupational disorders of greatest concern in the industrial sector. A key advantage in the primary design phase is to focus on a method of assessment that detects and evaluates the potential risks experienced by the operative when faced with these types of physical injuries. The method of assessme...

Design Issues and Product Lifestyle Management: SAiNT

Issues on Management of Collective Design Knowledge for Product Innovation

With more and more appeals to innovations and collaborations in the extended enterprises, collective design for product innovation becomes a more interesting and more significant R&D area. In such a context, design knowledge on products and life cycle processes is described respectively from static and dynamic dimensions. As a technical solution of collective design, a multi-leveled multi-agent...

Issues and Design Approach for Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems

The Product Oriented Manufacturing (POM) concept here presented addresses competition in today’s changing global market of manufacturing companies. It is a challenge to the Function Oriented Manufacturing (FOM) concept supposedly adequate for dealing with demand changes and large product variety without needing reconfiguration. The POM concept evolves from the traditional cellular manufacturing...

Challenges and Research Issues for Product and Process Design Optimization

Optimization as an enabling technology has been one of the big success stories in process systems engineering. In this paper we present first a general review of optimization and its applications to a variety of problems in process systems engineering. Next, we provide an overview of two key areas: nonlinear programming and logic-based discrete/continuous optimization. In particular, recent adv...