DRE-based semi-automation of the axiomatic design transformation: from the functional requirement to the design parameter

ABSTRACT

In the axiomatic design (AD) theory, the transformation from the function requirement (FR) to the design parameter (DP) is the key of the whole design process. The designers need numerous and multifarious design resources from outside to be introduced into this transformation to promote the quality, innovation and competitiveness of their design schemes. However, introducing a large number of design resources also brings in a large amount of design resource searching and combination exhausting, which is a heavy load on the designers. Therefore, in this study, the multifarious design resources, which can be contacted and used by the designers via the advanced Internet and logistics network, are assumed as a distributed resource environment (DRE), and the FR-to-DP transformation is semi-automated within the DRE via a proposed algorithm and a proposed improving method. To test this DRE-based semi-automation, a friction testing machine is designed as an example.

KEYWORDS:

• Distributed resource environment
• semi-automation
• axiomatic design transformation
• functional requirement
• design parameter

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Bin Chen http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4783-2069

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [grant number 2018M642008]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 51775332,51805319,51805322]; Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China [grant number 17ZDA020]; Project of the Committee of Science and Technology of Shanghai [grant number 16XD1425000]; Special Program for Innovation Method of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China [grant number 2018IM020100].