ShapeSift: Suggesting Sustainable Options in Design Reuse From Part Repositories

Ramanujan, Devarajan; Benjamin, William J.; Bernstein, William Z.; Elmqvist, Niklas; Ramani, Karthik

doi:10.1115/detc2013-13048

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“…This disparity has been identified as a challenge for current eco-design tools [44]. Addressing this gap is vital for aiding environmentally-benign design of new products. Simultaneously exploring design and sustainability related information in large, complex decision spaces: This is achieved using visual overlays or through linking visual representations [45]. When evaluating shapeSIFT with designers, Ramanujan et al [46] mention that visual overlays help designers better understand relationships between sustainability and design attributes by allowing them to trade materials, manufacturing processes, and part functions.…”

Section: Va Tools For Sust Lifecycle Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Ramanujan

Bernstein

Chandrasegaran

et al. 2017

Journal of Mechanical Design

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The rapid rise in technologies for data collection has created an unmatched opportunity to advance the use of data-rich tools for lifecycle decision-making. However, the usefulness of these technologies is limited by the ability to translate lifecycle data into actionable insights for human decision-makers. This is especially true in the case of sustainable lifecycle design (SLD), as the assessment of environmental impacts, and the feasibility of making corresponding design changes, often relies on human expertise and intuition. Supporting human sense-making in SLD requires the use of both data-driven and user-driven methods while exploring lifecycle data. A promising approach for combining the two is through the use of visual analytics (VA) tools. Such tools can leverage the ability of computer-based tools to gather, process, and summarize data along with the ability of human-experts to guide analyses through domain knowledge or data-driven insight. In this paper, we review previous research that has created VA tools in SLD. We also highlight existing challenges and future opportunities for such tools in different lifecycle stages—design, manufacturing, distribution & supply chain, use-phase, end-of-life, as well as life cycle assessment. Our review shows that while the number of VA tools in SLD is relatively small, researchers are increasingly focusing on the subject matter. Our review also suggests that VA tools can address existing challenges in SLD and that significant future opportunities exist.

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Section: Va Tools For Sust Lifecycle Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Ramanujan

Bernstein

Chandrasegaran

et al. 2017

Journal of Mechanical Design

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“…In this section, we discuss the modified interface that was designed based on expert feedback and our learnings from implementing an initial prototype. Implementation details for the intial protoype can be found in our previous work [39]. 3D parts used for constructing our database were obtained from the Engineering Shape Benchmark (ESB) [40].…”

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A Framework for Visualization-Driven Eco-Conscious Design Exploration

Ramanujan

Bernstein

Benjamin

et al. 2015

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

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A large portion of design activity involves applying previous design knowledge in order to solve new problems. Therefore, facilitating eco-conscious exploration of archived designs is needed for advancing sustainable product design. It is thus necessary to create integrated exploration tools that share common data representations for design and sustainability-related product metadata. This can allow designers to observe covariations in design data and develop engineering intuition with regards to environmental sustainability performance. In this work, we present a framework for relating sustainability and product metadata using taxonomy-based representations of lifecycle data. This facilitates simultaneous visualization of environmental indicators along with part similarities. To demonstrate this framework, we implement shapeSIFT, an interactive multidimensional visualization tool for eco-conscious design exploration. shapeSIFT uses a visual analytics-based approach to represent part metadata and environmental indicators. This facilitates query-based dynamic exploration of part repositories.

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Synergizing Product Design Information and Unit Manufacturing Process Analysis to Support Sustainable Engineering Education

Raoufi

Manoharan

Haapala

2018

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

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Promoting excellence in sustainable manufacturing has emerged as a strategic mission in academia and industry. In particular, universities must prepare the next generation of engineers to contribute to the task of sustaining and improving manufacturing by providing appropriate types of sustainability education and training. However, engineering curricula are challenged in delivering educational training for assessing technical solutions from the three domains that define sustainability: economic, environmental, and social. In the research presented here, an educational framework is developed with an aim to improve student understanding of sustainable product design (PD) and manufacturing. The framework is founded on the analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate (ADDIE) model for instructional design. The developed framework is demonstrated using an example of a sustainable PD activity. This instructional design case study illustrates how engineering students would be able to investigate the impacts of raw materials, unit manufacturing processes, manufacturing locations, and design changes on product sustainability performance by integrating PD information and manufacturing analysis methods during the PD phase.

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ShapeSift: Suggesting Sustainable Options in Design Reuse From Part Repositories

Cited by 4 publications

References 30 publications

Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

A Framework for Visualization-Driven Eco-Conscious Design Exploration

Synergizing Product Design Information and Unit Manufacturing Process Analysis to Support Sustainable Engineering Education

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