Innovative Product Design Research Articles

A process for designing innovative mechatronic products

This article presents a process for the design of innovative mechatronic products that integrates techniques of Design Thinking, Concurrent Engineering and Agilism to Intellectual Property Management activities. Design Thinking is employed in the early stages in order to better explore creativity, whereas Concurrent Engineering and Agilism are applied during the development of the product, in order to deal with emerging requirements and shrinking development times. The product development process is accompanied by Intellectual Property Management activities that address the protection of the project's intellectual assets. In this way, the proposed process represents an addition to theory and practice by smoothly integrating the three most influential product design philosophies of today, while, at the same time, introduces a direction for managing intellectual assets throughout the product lifecycle.

Biomimicry Learning as Inspiration for Product Design Innovation in Industrial Revolution 4.0

ABSTRACTNature can be a source of unlimited inspiration, biomimicry is an innovative approach to find sustainable solutions to overcome problems and meet human needs by imitating existing patterns and strategies in nature. The Industrial Revolution 4.0 brought many changes in human life, changes in lifestyles, ways of working, ways of learning, and ways of communicating between humans in many aspects. Most University students make use of technology to find and develop their ideas especially in creative industries where the OIM (Observe, Imitate, Modify) practice can be done through the Internet by observing from another researcher's observation. While biomimicry offers researchers to observe nature and create technology innovation inspired by nature. Students need to experience and learn from nature and use technology wisely. This study examines the biomimicryinspired works of Product Design undergraduate program students of Podomoro University Jakarta. The methodology research that we use in this study is a qualitative participatory method with comparative and correlational studies. The content of this study is to learn and evaluate the process and result of student's biomimicry observation into innovative product design. The conclusion can also be drawn that comparing the different levels of students which is the first year, second year, and third-year students by using the biomimicry observation approach will show variated concepts and skills on their work depending on what knowledge that they have learned from each semester. Pembelajaran Biomimikri sebagai Inspirasi dalam Inovasi Desain Produk di Era Revolusi Industri 4.0 ABSTRAK Alam dapat menjadi sumber inspirasi tanpa batas, biomimikri adalah pendekatan inovatif untuk menemukan solusi berkelanjutan untuk mengatasi berbagai permasalahan dan memenuhi kebutuhan manusia dengan meniru pola serta strategi yang nyata di alam. Revolusi Industri 4.0 membawa banyak perubahan dalam kehidupan manusia, perubahan gaya hidup, cara bekerja, cara belajar, dan cara berkomunikasi antara manusia dalam banyak aspek. Sebagian besar mahasiswa memanfaatkan teknologi untuk menemukan dan mengembangkan ideide mereka terutama di industri kreatif di mana praktik ATM (Amati, Tiru, Modifikasi) dapat dilakukan melalui Internet dengan mengamati dari pengamatan peneliti lain. Sementara biomimikri menawarkan peneliti untuk mengamati alam dan menciptakan inovasi teknologi yang terinspirasi oleh alam. Diharapkan dengan riset ini siswa bisa mendapatkan pengalaman nyata, mereka dapat termotivasi untuk mempelajari alam dan juga dapat menggunakan teknologi secara bijaksana. Riset ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji karya-karya yang terinspirasi biomimikri dari mahasiswa program sarjana jurusan Desain Produk Universitas Agung Podomoro Jakarta. Metodologi penelitian yang digunakan dalam riset ini adalah metode kualitatif parsitipatif dengan pendekatan korelatif serta komparatif. Konten kajian dalam studi ini merupakan evaluasi serta proses pembelajaran mahasiswa dalam penciptaan desain produk inovatif. Dari hasil riset ini dapat ditarik kesimpulan bahwa ternyata setelah melakukan perbandingan rancangan mahasiswa tahun pertama, kedua dan ketiga dengan menggunakan pendekatan observasi biomimikri maka ditemukan adanya perbedaan hasil serta tingkat keterampilan pada masing-masing angkatan tergantung dari pengetahuan yang mereka telah pelajari dan dapatkan di setiap semesternya.

Research and Practice of Cultural Creative Product Design Teaching Based on Semantic Innovation

This topic makes an exploratory research on the teaching mode of cultural and creative product design. Besides, via the research method of semantic combination, we make a product redesign of Liaoning traditional culture. Through the cognitive construction and semantic innovation of the semantic vocabulary of regional characteristics, crowd characteristics, innovation characteristics and metaphorical features, it provides new ideas for the innovation and dissemination of regional cultural product design. Verify the design hypothesis through the practice of design model, so as to obtain the solution of Liaoning cultural product design.

Product optimization design based on online review and orthogonal experiment under the background of big data

The individuation and diversity of customer demands motivates enterprises to compete in various aspects of services, such as product categories, cost, performance, marketing and after-sales service. Among them, product optimization design is the most important link, which determines whether an enterprise can achieve sustainable development in the market of fierce competition. For this reason, enterprises must implement various competitive strategies in terms of product diversity and characteristics. To solve this challenge, optimizing innovative product design is the key to help enterprises gain competitive advantage in the market. This paper presents a product optimization design based on online review and orthogonal experiment under the background of big data to meet customer needs. First, the big data of online reviews are collected from the web platform through the data collector, and the original data are processed by the apriori algorithm. Secondly, the fuzzy clustering was used to analyze the processed online reviews data to obtain customer needs. Finally, the product is optimized by orthogonal test based on customer needs. This paper analyzes the case of Huawei Honor 9 mobile phone, and obtains that the product appearance is the most concerned and dissatisfied product attribute of customers, and then optimizes the design of product appearance to improve customer satisfaction. Through this method, enterprises can improve the design of products according to the needs of customers in time, effectively overcome the defects of products, and help enterprises to establish a good relationship with customers, so as to promote the sustainable development of enterprises in the competitive market.

Aplicación del enfoque experiencial a la innovación de marketing de destinos turísticos: Recomendaciones para su implementación en Ecuador

Las nuevas necesidades de los turistas apuntan hacia la búsqueda de experiencias, por lo que los destinos turísticos deben focalizar sus estrategias de marketing en satisfacer estas nuevas exigencias de la demanda. Así, la innovación es una forma en que los destinos pueden mejorar sus estrategias de marketing centrándose en la oferta de experiencias, puesto que las estrategias de marketing tradicionales, enfocadas en la venta de productos o servicios, han perdido eficacia. De esta forma, el objetivo de este estudio es analizar la aplicación del enfoque del marketing expe- riencial a las innovaciones de marketing de un destino turístico, principalmente en el diseño del pro- ducto y la promoción. Con esta finalidad, se realizó una revisión de la literatura sobre innovación de marketing, con base en la cual se estableció una serie de pautas para introducir innovaciones en el diseño del producto y en la promoción turística de un destino basadas en el enfoque del marketing experiencial. Por último, a partir de estas directrices, se propusieron recomendaciones para mejorar las estrategias de marketing de Ecuador como destino turístico. Los resultados indican que los cambios en el diseño del producto basados en este enfoque buscan crear experiencias únicas y memorables, mientras que las mejoras en los medios de promoción pretenden comunicar sensaciones y emociones que un turista puede experimentar durante su visita.

Application of tractor virtual test technology in product innovation design

As a necessary link for product development and evaluation, tractor testing covers new technologies in multidisciplinary fields and plays an important role in the research and development of product life cycle. This study discusses the research status of tractor test and evaluation technology and analyzes the new technology associated with the test and evaluation technology. Aiming at the problem of poor reusability, poor interoperability and weak expansion of the current tractor virtual test model, a virtual tractor-based test technology based on the architecture was proposed. The middleware technology, test data management technology, modeling technology and test environment construction technology in the tractor virtual test system were analyzed. Taking the tractor power shift transmission as an example, the application of the architecture-based virtual test system was verified, which pointed out the direction for the design verification of tractor innovative products.

Evaluation of tandem controlled short-circuit GMAW for improved deposition in additive manufacture of large Nickel Aluminium Bronze naval components

Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) technology provides opportunities for innovative product design and potential for a more cost effective to additive manufacture than alternative processes. The economics of the technology rely on the deposition rate of the process used. In the past the controlled short-circuit process, known as cold metal transfer (CMT), has been demonstrated to be an effective means of achieving reasonable deposition rates and component integrity. A development of CMT, known as CMT Twin, uses a two-wire, tandem arrangement to further improve deposition rate. The current investigation evaluated the comparative benefits and performance of CMT and CMT Twin for the additive manufacture of Nickel Aluminium Bronze (NAB) components for naval applications. The results indicate the potential for increased productivity for large components but the need to control inter-run cooling. The feasibility of in situ alloying with two wires of similar composition has also been demonstrated.

Grid-Scale BESS for Ancillary Services Provision: SoC Restoration Strategies

The future power system, characterized by lower inertia, reduced programmability and more distributed architecture, will depend on prompt and reliable control systems. Quick ancillary services provided by battery energy storage systems (BESS) could be a resource in order to deliver fast and precise response to frequency events. Degrees of freedom in the design of innovative products traded on ancillary services markets give the asset manager room for developing state-of-charge (SoC) restoration mechanisms. These are necessary to effectively exploit BESS as key resources for electricity balancing. This study compares the main SoC restoration strategies. It aims to define which ones are suitable for guaranteeing the reliability of the provision and the return on the investment. A robust regulatory framework analysis describes the degrees of freedom guaranteed by the main experiences around Europe. In this paper, a BESS model with variable efficiency is used to compare the provision of Frequency Containment Reserve (FCR) with different SoC restoration strategies exploiting one or more degrees of freedom. Here, we show that the degrees of freedom are key to the reliability of provision. Among most diffused mechanisms, dead-band strategies secure the desired consistency, but require large energy flows for SoC management. Thus, BESS life and economics decrease. The strategies based on minimum available energy guarantee assured reliability while being fair with BESS life and operation costs.

Achieving Sustainable New Product Development by Implementing Big Data-Embedded New Product Development Process

Literature suggests that new product development (NPD) has an impact on sustainable organizational performance. Yet, previous studies in NPD have mainly been based on “experience-driven”, not data-driven, decision-making in the NPD process. We develop a research model to examine how the big data-embedded NPD process affects the sustainable innovation performance of NPD projects. We test the proposed model and conduct the cross-national comparison using data collected on 1858 NPD projects in the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), and Australia. The research findings suggest that big data-embedded business analysis, product design, and product testing increase sustainable innovation performance in all three countries. The study findings also reveal several surprising results: (1) in the USA, big data-embedded product testing has the highest effect on sales growth and gross margin, (2) in Australia, big data-embedded commercialization has the highest effect on sales growth and gross margin, and (3) in the UK, big data-embedded commercialization has the highest effect on second-year sales growth, first-year, and third-year gross margin; in addition, big data-embedded product testing has the highest effect on third-year sales growth and second-year gross margin.

Research and Application of Mechanical Product Design Process Based on QFD and TRIZ Integration

with the Increasingly Fierce Competition in Science and Technology, the Competitiveness of Enterprises Depends on the Level of Products, and the Level of Products Depends on the Design of Products. Therefore, the Design Quality of Products Will Directly Affect Product Performance, Product Development Cycle and Economic Benefits, and Even the Development of National Economy. in Order to Achieve Product Innovation and Meet the Needs of Customers, This Paper Studies How to Integrate QFD and TRIZ to Achieve Mechanical Product Innovation Design. through the Research, It is Found That QFD Can Only Obtain Customer Demand, Not Create Demand, Only Find Conflict, Not Solve Conflict, and TRIZ Can Solve These Two Problems Well. Therefore, This Paper Takes HoQ as the Skeleton Framework, Integrates QFD and TRIZ in the Demand side of HoQ and the Roof to Guide the Product Design Process in Reality, Which Can Realize the Complementary Advantages, Overcome the Shortcomings of Only Relying on a Single Design Theory to Guide the Design Process, and Has Practical Significance.

Multiobjective Decision-Making for Technical Characteristics Selection in a House of Quality

Technical characteristics are an important influencing factor in fuzzy front-end of product innovation design and also an important output of the house of quality. The analysis and decision-making of technical characteristics are conducive to the rational allocation of resources according to their own advantages and the design of products in line with market demand. In view of the multiple objective constraints and internal fuzziness of technical property selection in the house of quality, the traditional methods have great limitations on the decision-making of technical property. Therefore, this paper proposes a multiobjective decision-making method for technical property selection in the house of quality, which aims to calculate and modify the basic importance of technical property. Based on the rough set algorithm, the basic importance of technical characteristics is determined by using the correlation matrix between consumer demand and technical characteristics, and the relative weight of multiple objectives is determined by “least squares.” On this basis, the multiobjective decision-making model of technical characteristic selection is established and calculated. At last, an example of mobile phone product design was used to verify the practicability and effectiveness of the method.

Data-driven reliability analysis of Boeing 787 Dreamliner

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, launched in 2011, was presented as a game changer in air travel. With the aim of producing an efficient, mid-size, wide-body plane, Boeing initiated innovations in product and process design, supply chain operation, and risk management. Nevertheless, there were reliability issues from the start, and the plane was grounded by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2013, due to safety problems associated with Li-ion battery fires. This paper chronicles events associated with the aircraft’s initial reliability challenges. The manufacturing, supply chain, and organizational factors that contributed to these problems are assessed based on FAA data. Recommendations and lessons learned are provided for the benefit of engineers and managers who will be engaged in future complex systems development.

Bionic innovation design of disc brake

Creative thinking is the key factor of the product innovation design, and Bionic interaction design is a completely new method to achieve the creative design. In order to increase the abrasion resistance and reduce the natural frequency of automobile disc brake, and then weaken the brake squeal, the brake is designed from bionic points. Firstly, the brake is modeled at four levels of the function, principle, behavior and structure to fully express the internal relationship of the product; similarly, the corresponding biological system is modeled with function, strategy, action and structure based on the HIM. Meanwhile, considering the synergistic effect of multiple organisms, a multi-level Cooperative Mapping Mechanism based on multi-biological principle is raised to design the brake scheme. Secondly, thermodynamic and modal analysis of the bionic brake scheme is done. Finally, the bionic structure is parameterized designed based on numerical simulation to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.

Innovative Product Design Based on General Theory of Powerful Thinking

Innovative Product Design Based on General Theory of Powerful Thinking

Research on the application of experience-based materials in product innovation design

In order to explore the design characteristics and application of materials, the role of materials in product innovation design needs to be given full play. From the perspective of material characteristics, this paper studies the user experience and innovation of the design and application of paper characteristics, ceramics and other materials, and summarizes the application mode of material experience in product innovation. To enrich users’ experience, it is necessary to break through the barrier of materials suitably, bring experience to users, and meet users’ dual demands for product functions and emotions.

Modelling Consumer Knowledge: the Role of Ontology

Abstract Knowledge economy and further development of the information society made knowledge of all market interaction participants a key factor of consumption, adding value, including joint generation of value and innovation. Alongside with general increase in information volumes and decrease in consumer trust to it, the very products and services, as well as consumption technology and culture have become more complex and, thus, demonstrate relevance of managing consumer knowledge. Such complexity requires to teach consumers and to exchange knowledge with them. Consumer knowledge is of paramount importance for innovative products and services, as it is a key factor of innovation-decision process. Consumer knowledge practice needs clear understanding of this concept (consumer knowledge), its kinds and features, processes of acquiring and changing this knowledge, its influence on consumer behaviour, as well as company’s capabilities to establish consumer knowledge. Such understanding will be provided by creating ontology of innovative products and services’ consumer knowledge. Such ontology will help to resolve a whole range of enterprise engineering tasks: design of innovative products and services, as well as ecosystem surrounding them; design of an interaction system between a company and a consumer during a whole customer journey. This paper describes main requirements on ontology, discusses some existing ontologies, as well as contains primary results of ontology conceptualisation.

Comfort driven design of innovative products: A personalized mattress case study.

Human-centred design asks for wellbeing and comfort of the customer/worker when interacting with a product. Having a good perception-model and an objective method to evaluate the experienced (dis)comfort by the product user is needed for performing a preventive comfort evaluation as early as possible in the product development plan. The mattress of a bed is a typical product whose relevance in everyday life of people is under-evaluated. Fortunately, this behaviour is quickly changing, and the customer wants to understand the product he/she buys and asks for more comfortable and for scientifically assessed products. No guidelines for designing a personalized mattress are available in the literature. This study deals with the experience of designing an innovative product whose product-development-plan is focused on the customer perceived comfort: a personalized mattress. The research question is: which method can be used to innovate or create a comfort-driven human-centred product? Virtual prototyping was used to develop a correlated numerical model of the mattress. A comfort model for preventively assessing the perceived comfort was proposed and experimentally tested. Mattress testing sessions with subjects were organized, and collected data were compared with already tested mattresses. Brainstorming and multi-expert methods were used to propose, realize, and test an archetype of a new mattress for final comfort assessment. A new reconfigurable mattress was developed, resulting in two patents. The mattress design shows that personalized products can be tuned according to the anthropometric data of the customer in order to improve the comfort experience during sleep. A "comfort-driven design guideline" was proposed; this method has been based on the use of virtual prototyping, virtual optimization and physical prototyping and testing. It allowed to improve an existing product in a better way and to bring innovation in it.

Research on product innovation design methods

When the prehistoric man began to pick up stones, wood and other materials to make tools, we can confirm that creativity is not only the designer’s personal patent but a natural gift of humanity. As product designers, we must have more creativity than ordinary people. By analyzing a large number of actual design works and award-winning works in international competitions for many years, the author summarizes the similarities of creative design and explores the application of innovative product design methods in design.

Migration of the Lean-Startup approach from High-Tech startups towards product design in large manufacturing companies

Global competition, rapid market changes and the need for more and faster innovations lead to a new risk situation for manufacturing companies. As dynamics increase due to the Digital Transformation, the reliability of success forecasts decreases and many of the product design innovations launched on the market fail. Manufacturing companies, which design products down to the last detail and then develop them over a long period of time and with high investments are highly likely to find that their product will not be accepted on the market. To reduce this risk, agile processes and iterative product design is useful. This approach is based on multiple, iterative tests with customers and the possibility of implementing the knowledge gained. It is important to constantly check, whether the products meet the demand of the market and to design the product in such a variable way, that changes can be taken up immediately and learning effects can be implemented. The Lean-Startup approach is based on these principles. It has been established as a way of thinking for startups and young High-Tech companies who want to optimize their initial market approach through iterative testing of prototypes and continuous improvement through learning. However, the Lean-Startup approach is also suitable for larger companies, which want to make their product development more agile and flexible. This enables companies to react more flexibel to external influences, such as market competition, technologies and politics and to integrate customer needs are more effectively into the product design process. This constant monitoring of the product market fit reduces the risk of developing past the market. This paper introduces an approach for migrating the Lean-Startup approach to large manufacturing companies.

ЗВ’ЯЗКИ В КВАЗІІНТЕГРАЦІЙНИХ СТРУКТУРАХ НА ОСНОВІ МАШИНОБУДІВНИХ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ

У статті встановлено функціональні виробничо-економічні та загальноекономічні зв’язки в межах квазіінтеграційних структур на основі машинобудівних підприємств. Зазначено важливість розвитку вітчизняного машинобудування. Запропоновано розвиток машинобудівних підприємств на основі створення квазіінтеграційних структур взаємодіючих підприємств. Визнано основні передумови розвитку квазіінтеграційних структур на основі машинобудівних підприємств за стратегічним, соціальним, організаційно-економічним і техніко-економічним напрямами. В межах квазіінтеграційних структур на основі машинобудівних підприємств виділено базову, допоміжну, суміжну та обслуговуючу підкомпоненти. Встановлено роль зв’язків між взаємодіючими підприємствами в межах квазіінтеграційних структур. Виявлено вісімнадцять функціональних виробничо-економічних та загальноекономічних зв’язків у межах квазіінтеграційних структур на основі машинобудівних підприємств.