System Design Optimization for Product Manufacturing

Abstract

The current ultra-competitive manufacturing arena demands that a multitude of factors be considered during product design and manufacturing, in addition to core concerns such as product performances, product qualities, and manufacturing costs. Safety aspects, environmental impact, recycling issues, and the satisfaction of product consumers and users must all be addressed for a product design to be successful. Optimum system technologies that can concurrently consider a broad range of factors pertaining to product manufacturing, and streamline decision-making for product design and manufacturing are required. This article describes a total system design optimization method that assists decision-making across the entire spectrum of product manufacturing processes, from the conceptual design stage to final product realization. System design optimizations for advanced product manufacturing are discussed, starting from historical changes in manufacturing methodology paradigms and product manufacturing criteria, and the roles of concurrent engineering and collaboration concepts are then clarified as technological concepts that form the basis for innovative product manufacturing from the standpoint of system optimization. Next, aspects of people's involvement in product manufacturing are classified and technologies that support product manufacturing are summarized from the standpoint of providing sophisticated decision-making assistance to design and manufacturing personnel. Finally, based on the foregoing discussions, new methods for optimal decision-making technologies are proposed, with the aim of facilitating effective decision-making during the task of designing sophisticated products for manufacture.

Construction of an optimum system design method considering product lifecycle

“…Lifecycle design (LCD) is required for manufacturing in a cycle-oriented society, so that, during product design, the various items pertaining to the product's lifecycle stages are carefully evaluated. Ideally, this process begins with product planning and proceeds sequentially to the stages of design, manufacturing, distribution, usage, maintenance, disposal and recycling (Alting 1993, Yoshimura 2007. Products that would benefit most from a consideration of lifecycle issues during the design stage are those whose usage stages after manufacturing are particularly long or energy-consuming, such as machinery or transportation equipment that is in operation for decades.…”

A Method for Engineering Design Selection of Complex Systems Based On System Engineering

“…It would get the selection result after inputting the different candidate plans via the assessment model. [4,5] To combine the multi-objectives into an optimized single objective to assess the system in the whole.…”

“…Table 1 sums up the common methods for plan selection and decision making. They are aiming different requirements and objects, using different metrics and criteria, constructing different mathematics models to calculate and assess [4,5,6,7,8].…”

Increasing the Energy Efficiency in Compressed Air Systems

“…Minimisation of energy consumption is done in most cases up to now, separately for the each subsystem. There are numerous references dealing with trajectory optimisation of industrial robots, influence of the robot velocity on energy efficiency and design of the optimal components layout within the robotic cell (Šešlija, 1988;Tomović et al, 1990;Yoshimura, 2007;Guilbert et al, 2008;Kamrani et al, 2010;Wenger and Chedmail, 1991;Dissanayake and Gal, 1994;Aspragathos and Foussias, 2002).…”