Definition, development, and design of simple products V2

• Applicant: Dr.-Ing. Michael Schabacker, since 11/2017
• Subject Area: Engineering Design, Machine Elements, Product Development
• Term: from 2016 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317545038

Definition, development, and design of simple productsProducts are becoming more complex today primarily due to increasing customers requirements that may change constantly during development. Such changes can also be the result of influences from the (later) operating environments of the product as well as from the fact that products increasingly consist of combinations of components from the fields of mechanics, hydrau-ics / pneumatics, electrics / electronics and information processing.The more complex a product is, the more difficult and confusing becomes the area of conflict of its design, evaluation, control, and reproducibility of its development, production, use, and liquidation activities.One key request of design methodology is that a product should be unambiguous, simple, and safe. While unambiguousity and safety can be clearly defined, reproducible descriptions, rules, and procedures for developing a simple product are clearly missing, although numerous advantages in all its life stages are attributed to a simple product.In this research project, reproducible definitions, descriptions, methods, and tools should therefore be developed that allow a simple product to be designed in a way that it provides the best solution for the given problem under all circumstances.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr.-Ing. Sandor Vajna, until 11/2017