Behera, AK orcid.org/0000-0002-1058-5335, McKay, A orcid.org/0000-0002-8187-4759, Earl, CF et al. (4 more authors) (2019) Sharing design definitions across product lifecycles. Research in Engineering Design, 30 (3). pp. 339-361. ISSN 0934-9839
Abstract
The research reported in this paper explored the feasibility of embedding multiple design structures into design definitions with a view of sharing design definitions across product life cycles. Two separate case studies using (a) lattice theory and (b) a qualitative data analysis (QDA) software tool were used to illustrate the benefits of embedding. In the first case study, of a robotic arm assembly, lattices in the form of partially ordered sets are used to embed multiple design structures into a given design definition. A software prototype has been built that allows a design bill of materials (BoM) to be extracted from a STEP AP214 file and translated into a lattice that is visualized as a Hasse diagram. This lattice is a sub-lattice of a complete lattice that includes all possible BoM structures for the given collection of component parts in the assembly. New BoM design structures can be defined by selecting the required nodes in the complete lattice and alternative product definitions are then exported as new STEP files. The second case study introduces a collision avoidance robot with associated design structures. It is used to illustrate management of design information using a current technique, design structure matrix (DSM), and compared with how embedding using QDA has the potential to support the establishment of relationships between design structures. Results from these case studies demonstrate that it is feasible to use lattice theory as an underlying formalism and QDA as a means for sharing design definitions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2019, The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Lattice structures; Qualitative data analysis; Bill of materials; Design definitions; BoM management; Robots. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Management Division Organizational Behaviour (LUBS) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mechanical Engineering (Leeds) > Institute of Engineering Systems and Design (iESD) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC EP/N005694/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jan 2019 11:14 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2019 10:09 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s00163-018-00306-0 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:140985 |
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