Supporting negotiations in the early stage of large-scale mechanical system design Academic Article

abstract

• Abstract The development of large-scale mechanical systems involves interactive negotiations among nontechnical and technical design stakeholders. Usually, two types of negotiations exist: (i) those between the nontechnical stakeholders and technical stakeholders with responsibilities for the overall system, such as chief system design engineers and project managers; and (ii) those within the design engineering groups who are responsible for design tasks at different system hierarchical levels, i.e., system, subsystem, and component. This paper addresses the interactive negotiations among the design engineering groups. A direct synthesis (DS) method was developed to support the negotiations by combining adaptive and interactive modeling system based surrogate modeling with a set-based zoom-in approach. A vehicle frontal structural system design example is used to demonstrate how to apply the DS method in industrial practice. The preliminary results show that DS has the potential to support the fast synthesis of robust design alternatives that satisfy performance requirements at the system, subsystem, and component level.

authors

• Bukkapatnam, Satish

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN

author list (cited authors)

• Ge, P., Lu, S., & Bukkapatnam, S.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Ge, P||Lu, SCY||Bukkapatnam, STS

publication date

• November 2005

publisher

• ASME International  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Mechanical Design - Transactions of the ASME  Journal

keywords

• 40 Engineering
• 4010 Engineering Practice And Education

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1115/1.1862675

start page

• 1056

end page

• 1067

volume

• 127

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.1862675