SIMULATION READY CAD-MODELS AS A MEANS FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Marco CantaMESsa, Gaetano Cascini, Dorian Marjanovic, Serena Graziosi
Author: Johansson, Joel; André, Samuel; Elgh, Fredrik
Series: ICED
Institution: Joenkoeping University, Sweden
Section: Design Methods and Tools - part 2
Page(s): 195-204
ISBN: 978-1-904670-69-8
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
Manufacturing companies tend to separate technology development (TD) from product development (PD) as has been devised by research within the field of innovation management. When a technology is ready it somehow has to be made available to the PD teams so that the engineers working in PD projects can adapt the new technology into new products. The question is how that work can be supported. The ultimate goal of the research presented in this paper is to develop methods and tools to assist the knowledge transfer between TD and PD with a focus on supporting the actual use of the new technology in PD. This paper presents an industrial case along with a proposed method to achieve this. The TD and PD processes in the case company were reviewed with focus on how simulation models evolve over time and how they are used for different purposes. It was discovered that simulation ready CAD-models can be used to transfer the output from TD to PD.
Keywords: Technology, Early Design Phases, Simulation, Knowledge Management