POSTPONING PRODUCT RETIREMENT THROUGH ENGINEERING DESIGN

Reliability from Design Inception to Product Retirement

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Mitigating design fixation effects in engineering design through product dissection activities

Integrating Product Form Preference into Engineering Design

The product form has an important role in the judgment of a product, and increasingly more products within a market segment have similar technology and performance. This has elevated the importance of the appearance of a product, and being the first impression of a product visual, this work presents methods for the integration of the product form preference into the engineering design process. ...

Crystal Engineering for Product and Process Design

Crystalline organic solids are ubiquitous as either final products or as intermediates in the specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, and home & personal care industries. Virtually all small molecular weight drugs are isolated as crystalline materials, and over 90% of all pharmaceutical products are formulated in particulate, generally crystalline form. Crystalline chemical intermediates, such as a...

Iterative Product Engineering: Evolutionary Robot Design

This paper details an iterative, rapid method for digital mock-up and the evolutionary optimisation of a closed loop controller for highly dynamic gaits. The evolutionary approach in the virtual construction kit MorphEngine is investigated on its capacity to inspire and evolve behaviours for legged robots and non-biometric locomotion. The tool supports the engineer in finding, controlling and f...