Abstract
The design of an E segment, executive, midsize sedan car was chosen to fill a gap in the market of the Ford brand and to achieve the goal of innovation looking towards the future. Ford has not owned an E-segment flagship sports sedan for years, since the historic 1960s Falcon. Starting from the latter assumption and considering that the major car manufacturers are currently investing heavily in E-segment cars, it is important to design a new model, which has been called the Eagle. This model proposed here is to fill the gap between Ford and other companies that are already producing sport cars for the electric sector and to complete Ford’s proposal. The presented methodology is based on SDE, on which many design tools are implemented, such as Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Benchmarking (BM), and Top Flop Analysis (TPA). A market analysis follows in order to identify the major competitors and their key characteristics considering style and technology. The results are used to design an innovative car. Based on the most developed stylistic trends, the vehicle is first sketched and then drawn in the 2D and 3D environments for prototyping. This result leads to the possibility of 3D printing the actual model as a maquette using the Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) technology and testing it in different configurations in Augmented Reality (AR). These two final applications unveil the possibilities of Industry 4.0 as enrichment for SDE and in general rapid prototyping.
Highlights
Industrial design is the most important phase in the lifetime of a product
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Summary
The design stage controls the style of the components, the costs, the times of production, and the impact on the market. Because of the latter, it is important to gather all of the information possible from customers and start a new project to develop the right car concept from the beginning. It is important to gather all of the information possible from customers and start a new project to develop the right car concept from the beginning Errors in this phase will lead to inefficiencies that will affect the budget. Many approaches to this problem are possible since the design stage is not simple [1]. The following paper presents a case study based on the different phases of Industrial Design Structure (IDeS)
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