ENT 416 Design Project 1

Engineering Design Process

Engineering Design Process?????
Design ??
 Design?

•Verb:
- invent, intend, devise
- to conceive or to form a plan for

•Noun:
- drawing, arrangement, pattern, plan, art of
making designs
 Basic but Essential Questions

Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why? Their Job?
How? Well, yes, but
also……..
Your Job
 Content
• Product Development and Product Planning
• Design Philosophy
• Conventional vs. Concurrent Design Process
• Design Project
 Product Development
• A set of activities in developing a
product
• Starts with market study
• Ends production and sale

(Ulrich K.T. and Eppinger S.D.,

2003, Product Design and
Development )

Design Process
 Product Development
Successful product development based on:
• Product Quality
• Product Cost
• Development Time
• Development Cost
• Development Capability
 Product Lifecycle

When do we introduce a new developed product?

Product Development

Product Development Time and Cost

Product Development

Product Live Cost and Profit Cycle

 Product Planning
The five-step of product planning
 Product Planning
• Mission statement about a product include:
• Brief description of the product
• Key business goals-time,cost,quality
• Target market
• Assumption and constraint
• Stakeholders
 Product Planning
Ex am ple: Cordless Screw drivers
 Design Philosophy
• What is design?
• Broad meaning, and used by all…
• Classifies as:
• Industrial design (aesthetic)
• Engineering design (functionality)
• Examples: songwriter, fashion designer, policy
maker
• In engineering a design develop a new
product, process or system
 Design Philosophy
Industrial design Engineering design
• Physical appearance • Functionality
• Style • Specification and
• Proportion and balance objective
• Colour and contrast • Systematic
• Unity
 Design Philosophy
Abstract & aesthetic Function & aesthetic
 Engineering Design Types
Pahl and Beitz, 1988 Dieter, 1991
• Original design (from 4- • One-of-a-kind design
bar mechanism to wiper) (prototype)
• Design for mass
• Adaptive design production. (handphone)
(Automatic gear box, • Large, expensive system
CVT) design (factory)
• Design to code (boiler,
• Variant design (Conveyor gears, nuts & bolts)
sizing, gear ratio)
 Design Approach
• Part of engineering design with specific scope
covering mechatronic systems, components and
products.
• Conventional approach
• Sequential & design by
discipline
• Problem passed to next
discipline?
 Design Approach
• Part of engineering design with specific scope
covering mechatronic systems, components and
products.
• Conventional approach Concurrent approach

(Mechatronic approach)
 Design Approach
• Consists of 3 phases
– Modeling and simulation
– Prototyping
– Deployment

• With 3 design stages

– Conceptual design
– Embodiment design
– Production
Design Approach
Prototyping Deployment/Life
Modeling/Simulation
Cycle

Recognition of the Need Hardware-in-the-loop Deployment of Embedded

Simulation (HIL) Software

Conceptual Design and

Functional Specification Design Optimization Life Cycle Optimization

First Principle Modular

Mathematical Modeling
Conceptual Design
Sensor and Actuator
Selection Embodiment Design

Detailed Modular Production Ramp Up

Mathematical Modeling

Control System Design

Design Optimization
 Stage 1: Conceptual design
• Initiating design – potential solution –
best concept
• Highly creative process & requires
coordination
• Consists of:
– Customer need identification
– Problem definition (Goal)
– Gathering Information (Literature Survey)
– Concept generation
– Concept selection
Stage 1: Conceptual design
 Stage 2: Embodiment design
• Preliminary design – ‘skeleton’
• After this stage, only minor design
modification
• Consists of:
– product architecture – subsystem and
its relation
– configuration design of part and
components
– mathematical modeling and simulation
– sensors and actuators selection
– controller design
 Stage 2: Embodiment design
• Prototyping
– approximation of a product
– Proof of concept
– E.g sketch, model, 3D drawing or fully
functional product

• Stage 3: production
 Design project
• Should be a customer and demonstrable market
• Should not be too complicated
• Should not be your FYP!
• Group project but individual assessment
• 4-5 per group
 Topic & Scope
• Themes
-Biomedical (to be announced)

Example:
Post stroke treatment includes rehabilitation. Rehabilitation will be an on-
going process to maintain and refine skills affected by the stroke.
Generally, stroke can cause five types of disabilities: paralysis or problems
controlling movement; sensory disturbances including pain; problems
using or understanding language; problems with thinking and memory; and
emotional disturbances.

Students are required to choose one problem related to stroke and propose
a solution that can helped to improve the effect. Your solution must include
instrumentation elements (for RK85), safety, ethics, sustainability and
environmental components.
 Milestones
• Registration Wk
5
• Report 1 : Need and Specification
Development Wk 10
• Report 2: Conceptual Design Wk 13
• Project management, teamwork. etc
 Report 1: Need and
Specification Development
• Project proposal including the problem statement
• The proposal should:
• Demonstrate understanding of the problem
• Convince that the team has a plan and ideas
to solve the problem
• Need Identification, interview potential customers or
questionnaire to demonstrate market or customer
base
• Specification development
 Further R eadings

• Shetty & K olk , M echatronics System Design

• Chapter 1

• Yousef Haik , Engineering Design P rocess

• Chapter 1