Selection of a Solution When Using Axiomatic Design

Laurenţiu Slătineanu,Irina Beşliu,Oana Dodun,Felicia Banciu,Margareta Coteaţă,Valeriu Dulgheru,Petru Duşa,L Slatineanu

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201712701019

Abstract

Over the years, the importance of the creativity inclusively in the field of design activities was highlighted. In accordance with the opinions of certain researchers, the divergent thinking could contribute to the increase of creative processes efficiency. On the other hand, the axiomatic design method is considered as a method able to stimulate the technical creativity when the problem of designing a mechanical equipment is stated. To increase the efficiency of using the axiomatic design method, the possibility of selecting the most convenient solution among many available solutions could be discussed. The analysis revealed that there are many methods that could be applied in the process of optimum solution selection among many available solutions. In this paper, some aspects concerning the possibilities of using the method of analytic hierarchy process are analyzed, inclusively by considering a case study concerning a device for investigating the universal horizontal lathe rigidity. Afterwards, the first axiom from axiomatic design method was applied to define the selected solution for the approached device.

Highlights

In a short definition, the creativity could be defined as the ability to generate new ideas or concepts, eventually by applying methods able to help the process of new ideas generation
The analysis revealed that there are many methods that could be applied in the process of optimum solution selection among many available solutions
Some aspects concerning the possibilities of using the method of analytic hierarchy process are analyzed, inclusively by considering a case study concerning a device for investigating the universal horizontal lathe rigidity

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Introduction

The creativity could be defined as the ability to generate new ideas or concepts, eventually by applying methods able to help the process of new ideas generation. There is not a unique opinion concerning the person who used firstly the concept of creativity. In a work concerning the of aesthetics evolution, the Polish poet and theoretician of poetry Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640) is considered as the first person who applied the word “creation” in the field of poetry [1]. The English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead is taken into consideration as the inventor of the word “creativity”; he used the concept when defining his metaphysical scheme [2]. Căpâlneanu, Intelligence and creativity, Editura Militară, Bucharest 1978), there is the opinion that the concept of creativity was introduced by Gordon Allport, in 1937 [3]

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