Leverage Between Industrial and Engineering Designs in Enclosure of Machine Tools

Abstract

With the growing fierce competition in the market, even in the capital goods, the industrial design becomes popular. In this context, the utmost leading subject is to make the leverage between the industrial and engineering designs, each of which includes a considerable number of attributes in reciprocal relation, by using the eclectic method. Thus, it is enough by nature to have the preferable solution, but not the optimum one. Importantly, in the enclosure of machine tool, its engineering design ranges from the aerodynamics and thermal engineering, through design for fabrication, to safety law. More importantly, the industrial design is extremely supported by both the aesthetic theory and computer graphics, and the former is in closer relation to the manufacturing culture. In short, the enclosure design is a typical engineering problem with multiple- and transdisciplinary and we need wider scope to cope with it including the liberal arts.