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DESIGN FOR EMBODIMENT THROUGH SMART ARCHIVES
Rosa, Francesco; Viganò, Roberto; Rovida, Edoardo
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Year:
2015
Editor:
Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco CantaMESsa, Dorian Marjanovic, Frederico Rotini
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Series:
ICED
Institution:
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Section:
Product Modularisation, Product Architecture, Systems Engineering, Product Service Systems
Page(s):
155-164
ISBN:
978-1-904670-70-4
ISSN:
2220-4334
Abstract:
The design of a new product begins with functional analysis, and then continues with conceptual solution. Only in final and somehow separate stages, the designer has to embody and then to design in detail any part of the product. Even if the great majority of the recent developments in design methods and tools are devoted to the first two and more abstract steps of the product development process, as shown above, the last two steps are the among the more common activities of a design office, and are also the more time and resource consuming steps. These considerations apply not only to the design of a new product, but also to the very common re-design activity, where the past experience plays an important role in suggesting how to avoid trouble . In order to overcome these limitations, the structure of an archive is presented, discussed and applied to a practical case study. This catalogue is the result of a tailoring process of an amalgamation of the Systematic Design catalogues with the aim of easing and anticipating the issues typically relegated to embodiment and detail design, in order to recognize as soon as possible practically unfeasible concepts.
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